US imperialism

Mecca Pact signing

The meaning of the Mecca Pact

The real meaning of the Mecca Pact between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan lies not in what it is today, contends Michael Pröbsting, but in what it reflects and could become in the future.
Iran missiles

Geopolitical fractures and the Marxist critique of imperialism

Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fracturing of the ‘global West’.
Trump at NATO. Photograph by Shealah Craighead.

NATO and the North Atlantic left: A road to nowhere

Jana Silverman and Jaime Caro look at alternatives socialists on both sides of the Atlantic can propose to promote geopolitical stability in the face of the global polycrisis.
Firoozeh Farvardin.  Credits: Irene Graf

Iranian feminism, between war and the regime

Firoozeh Farvardin examines how to oppose the regime without supporting foreign intervention, and how to sustain networks of care, resistance and internationalism from below.
The imperialism of our time graphic

US-supervised globalisation, China’s rise and the imperialisms of our time: An interview with Benjamin Bürbaumer

Benjamin Bürbaumer discusses why capitalism leads great powers to resort to coercion, how Western Europe became integrated into US capitalism, and whether China could displace a declining US with a new Sino-centred capitalism.
Russian oil tanker

Cuba: Where is the Russian oil? The truth that Moscow silences

Russia says it is Cuba’s strategic ally. But Russian oil is not arriving. Eduardo Miguel Álvarez Estévez looks at why.
Milei and Trump

The new frontyard: Why Latin America has become the playground for imperial and fascist experiments

William Callison and Verónica Gago unpacking Trump's end game in Latin America.
Cuban market

Cuba: Who will govern the market?

The crucial question is not how much market an economy can accommodate, but who governs that market and how wealth is concentrated, argues Wilder Pérez Varona.
Washington has escalated its neocolonial stranglehold on Venezuela after the June 24 earthquakes. (Jesús Vargas)

Venezuela: The urgency of shedding illusions

Elías Jaua calls for national unity to reclaim Venezuela's sovereignty and right to self-determination.
Marcos Rubio

Partido Lakas ng Masa (The Philippines): Rubio out! Stop US intervention and wars! Hands off our region!

Rubio is a very dangerous man on a very dangerous mission to the Philippines, warns Partido Lakas ng Masa.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Mustafavi Moosavi Khomeini (1902-1989), Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

Iran’s revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule

Hossam el-Hamalawy revisits Iran’s revolution through the social forces that drove it, explaining its outcome was not historically inevitable.
Venezuela earthquake Spectre interview

On US intervention and the Venezuelan state: Interview with Federico Fuentes

As part of the ongoing discussion on recent US intervention and the dynamics of the Venezuelan state, Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes.