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Montage by Global Voices, featuring U.S. President-elect Trump (image from Flickr, under CC BY-SA 2.0) and the map of Latin America

Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes & Luis Bonilla-Molina — Trump wants to impose the rule that “the United States runs the planet.” But why are Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela his most immediate targets?
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Gaza after October 7: A bitter account two years into the catastrophe

Gilbert Achcar provides an account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.

The choice is ecosocialism or barbarism

Cyn Huang — Youth-led movements against genocide, austerity, and the continued destruction of our natural resources have sprung up all around the world. Cohering these movements around class politics is key to avoiding barbarism.
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Trump’s new Israel-Palestine peace plan: The ‘Deal of the Millennium’ after the ‘Deal of the Century’

Gilbert Achcar — Trump’s new plan is even less realistic than the one he unveiled five years ago.
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Venezuela: Surgentes condemns US interference and extrajudicial execution of 17 Venezuelans

Faced with the United States’ hostile military presence in the Southern Caribbean since August 2025, the human rights collective Surgentes issued the following statement.
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Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution: For a peaceful and democratic solution to Venezuela’s grave crisis

Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution — The extremely serious situation we have outlined has one thing in common: the violation of our sovereignty by two different forces.
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Two statement by the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee (Venezuela): ‘Mobilise against Trump’s offensive’ and ‘On Maduro’s call for a trade union constituent assembly’

Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee — The united mobilisation of the Latin American people, together with US and Canadian workers, is urgently needed to block Trump’s threats and attacks.
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Trump is looking to consolidate his populist base without challenging corporate power

Sam Gindin — Absent a left alternative, the US Empire decline’s is just as likely to increase nationalism and its dangers, from naïve working-class alliances with their bourgeoisies to devastating wars.
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Negotiations in Alaska: Does Trump’s peace deal for Putin have a future?

Posle — Trump’s negotiations have evoked mixed emotions: hope for an end to the war, but also anxiety about its consequences and the terms of the potential deal.
Comunes antes la amenaza imperialista

Two statements from Comunes (Venezuela): ‘Against the imperialist threat’ and ‘The Maduro government fears the people’

Comunes — We will defend the homeland, confront imperialism, and denounce the right, but we will also fight against this neoliberal and authoritarian government.
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Defending Venezuela’s sovereignty from a working-class perspective

Salvador De León looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective.
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Prioritizing great power rivalry with China: Trump’s strategy to reassert US dominance

Despite the chaos, confusion and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project — escalating imperial rivalry with China — argues Ashley Smith.

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