Nigeria: We don’t need another hero
Nanre Nafziger — In Nigeria’s recent election cycle, many citizens looked to Peter Obi for change. But the country needs people-led social transformation, not saviors.
Dung Pam Sha — Allegations of fraud and intimidation have cast a shadow over the recent vote.
Collective statement: Build a campaign to defend and raise the voice of the Iranian revolution
A collective call for revolutionary and progressive forces to unite and spread the voice of the Iranian revolution.
Prioritizing U.S. imperialism in evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide
Steve Ellner — Two conflicting leftist positions on Latin America’s wave of progressive governments known as the Pink Tide have become increasingly well-defined over the last two decades.
Michael Pröbsting — Relations between Great Powers cannot be understood in isolation but rather have to be viewed in the context of fundamental class contradictions within a given historical stage of a mode of production.
Imperialism is inscribed in the very DNA of capitalism
A wide-ranging interview with British activist and researcher John Smith about imperialism, super-exploitation, and struggle
The fishing revolution and the origins of capitalism
Ian Angus — Marxist historians debating the origin of capitalism rarely mention the industry that employed more working people than any field other than farming.
Sweden’s four messy months of right-wing government
John Hörnquist — Why far-right populism won the Swedish election, but is making the right lose its credibility.
Israel: Building joint resistance to the far-right government
Dani Filc, of left-wing social movement Standing Together which mobilises both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, discusses the situation in Israel following the election of the new government.
Another story of the Russian Revolution: Reading Judy Cox’s 'The Women's Revolution'
Seiya Morita — Judy Cox's 'The Women's Revolution' deftly reveals how important a role women revolutionaries, women Bolsheviks and women workers played in the Russian Revolution, its preparatory process, and in the civil war that followed.
On the consequences of the Russian invasion, the mistakes of the Western left, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine. An interview with Zakhar Popovich, member of the leftist organization Sotsyalnyi Rukh
Key issues of the war in Ukraine one year on
Dave Holmes — A Russian defeat at the hands of the US-NATO-Ukraine forces would be a victory for imperialism. An end to the war and a withdrawal of Russian troops is obviously desirable, but only as a result of negotiations and a reasonable peace settlement.