Comunes

Comunes: Keys to understanding what is happening in Venezuela (plus statement: ‘A de facto government is born, let’s organise the rebellion’)

Comunes — With Chávez, we were moving in a revolutionary and popular direction. But in the past 10 years, the Bolivarian Revolution has lost protagonism and is no longer expressed in government policies. The results are in plain sight.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro waves his nation’s flag at Miraflores Palace during his third-term inauguration in Caracas.

The Venezuelan working class under Maduro (2013-24): Part IV — The 2024 presidential elections and Madurismo’s authoritarian turn

Luís Bonilla-Molina — The July 28 presidential election marked the start of a new phase within Madurismo, one of deepening authoritarianism in order to stabilise its pro-capitalist regime.
YPJ Commander-in-Chief Rohilat Afrin

Syria: ‘We cannot hand over our weapons while attacks on women and our territories continue’ — An interview with YPJ Commander-in-Chief Rohilat Afrin

Rohilat Afrin talks about the state of the war in Manbij, the ceasefire that never was, the possibility of a Turkish invasion in Kobane, HTS-SDF relations and the potential for the YPJ to be integrated into the Syrian army.
Ilya Budratskis

Ilya Budraitskis: ‘The struggle for Boris Kagarlitsky’s liberation is an integral part of the struggle for socialism from below’

Ilya Budraitskis — The distinction between socialism from above and socialism from below remains relevant not just to divisions among Russian leftists but the left globally.
Ecosocialism Conference 2024

Britain: Humanity faces a planetary emergency — Statement from Ecosocialism Conference 2024

Ecosocialism Conference 2024 — There is an urgent need to build a movement with a programme to meet the climate emergency resulting from capitalist strategies.
Juan Barreto Maria Alejandra Diaz

Statements from Venezuelan left: End the detentions, forced disappearances and repression!

Various revolutionary left groups and human rights organisations have released statements denouncing the wave of police repression unleashed in the lead up to Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration.
PA in West Bank

The Palestinian Authority and the completion of the siege

Gilbert Achcar — Since the completion of the first year of the ongoing Zionist genocidal war on Gaza, a shameful scene has been taking place before our eyes in the West Bank.
Mozambique riots

Mozambique: A new revolution, this time without revolutionaries — How rigged elections sparked a historic uprising

Michel Cahen — The largest protests in Mozambique’s history have erupted following contested October 2024 elections, marking a dramatic shift in the country’s political landscape.
Syria Untold graphic

The threats ahead of a democratic and progressive Syria

Joseph Daher analyses the threats posed by the remnants of the old Assad regime and HTS's policy to consolidate its power over the new Syria.
Proletarian China: A century of Chinese labour

Proletarian China: A century of working-class struggle

Chris Slee — From the struggles of workers on the Beijing-Hankou railway in the 1920s to that of the Jasic factory workers in 2017-18, ‘Proletarian China’ deals with a range of working-class battles over pay, conditions and union rights.
Lenin imperialism export capitals

The place of capital exports in Lenin’s conception of imperialism — A response to John Bellamy Foster

James Doughney — It is hard to avoid thinking that any attempt to airbrush Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ is a form of avoidance behaviour in the face of awkward but stubborn facts.
Syrian's celebrating

Syria, geopolitics and the left

Santiago Alba Rico — The role and bias of this geopolitical obsession becomes very clear as soon as one compares the different attitudes toward Palestine and Syria.