PSM-MUDA alliance byelection

Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s distinctive role in Malaysian politics (plus: What the PSM-Muda alliance brings to the Ayer Kuning poll)

Jeyakumar Devaraj — For the past several years, Parti Sosialis Malaysia has been presenting fresh perspectives that the mainstream political parties are either unable to conceptualize or unwilling to articulate.
oil rig

Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.
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A tale of two ports: Africa, Asia and the subimperial scramble

Phil A Neel — Asia’s ascent and the gradual decline of the wealthiest countries’ investments in Africa do not represent the decay of US hegemony, but instead its strengthening through the agglomeration of new, subimperial power centers.
Marx crisis

Marx was wrong about the declining rate of profit. Isn’t it time we put this false idea to rest?

James Doughney — Careful attention to Marx’s exposition of the theory of the declining rate of profit demonstrates that his theory is not coherent, even in its own terms.
US far right

For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right

Thomas Hummel — The rise of the global far right defines our historical moment. Revolutionary socialists must revive the strategy of the united front to challenge this new authoritarianism.
Solidarity Collectives Ukraine

Support Ukrainian resistance — not monstrous rearmament plans

Simon Pirani — European powers have decided on long-term rearmament programmes. The left must not become cheerleaders for these.
Trump Putin Europe

Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc, Portugal): Europe in the Trump-Putin axis trap

Bloco de Esquerda — There are several imperialisms in the global system. But none of them will play a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites.
US President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Source: AAP

This changes everything: The threat of Trumpism for South Africa

Amandla! Collective — The second coming of Trump has started to reconfigure the international political architecture that emerged after World War II. This has profound implications for countries both in the global North and South.
Protestors burn a Frelimo flag. Shorn of its former radicalism, Frelimo was embroiled in one corruption scandal after another. But its continued control of the Electoral Commission has ensured that the provinces and the capital, Maputo, would stay in its hands.

The Mozambican people enter the political realm

Rehad Desai — A potted history of Mozambique’s ruling party is required to help fully grasp why the country is unravelling, creating an uprising of discontent.
Police barricade during a demonstration on the corner of Eduardo Mondlane and Amílcar Cabral avenues in Maputo, two of the main leaders of former Portuguese African colonies´ independence. November 7th, 2024. Image © Marilio Wane.

The crisis of African liberators

Marílio Wane — As Mozambique nears 50 years of independence, its ruling party clings to power amid political turmoil, contested elections, and growing public discontent. Is this the beginning of a new struggle for liberation?
west africa military

West African juntas are undermining human rights

Salvador Ousmane paints a damning picture of the African military juntas that came to power in West Africa in recent years, but sees hope in the resilience of trade union activism, which continues to persist despite repressive conditions.
Turkey rally

Turkey and the neofascist contagion

Gilbert Achcar — The events unfolding in Turkey since last Wednesday are extremely serious: they constitute a new and very dangerous step in the country’s slide towards the suffocation of democracy.