Protest in Romania

Class war in Romania: Austerity and the dismantling of trade unions

Maria Luisa Guevara explores the lessons of Romania’s 2010 turbo-austerity program, and the resistance to it, as the country undergoes another austerity wave.
trade port boats

Globalization, Trump’s tariff war and APEC 2025

Jeyakumar Devaraj — We have the responsibility of putting forward an alternative vision where the vast wealth created by the growth of technology and science is utilized to benefit people and the planet on the basis of solidarity.
Caribbean military buildup

The context and significance of María Corina Machado Nobel Peace Prize

Luís Bonilla-Molina — María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize has sparked an unusual debate on social media. Understanding its implications requires a structural analysis to comprehend the political operation behind it.
Middle east militarism

The Middle East and fossil capitalism: Oil, militarism and the global order

Adam Hanieh — The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
Economic Nobel

Would Marx approve this year’s Nobel?

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Innovation won the Economic Nobel this year. But would Karl Marx approve? Partly.
Havana Cuba

What a trip to Cuba meant for a US student in the 21st century

Samuel Barney — Cubans have taken a great stride towards human emancipation through their revolution. We in the US would do well to acknowledge that.
Outside the National Assembly, the symbol of ‘The Law’ stands over a political arena where the meaning of democracy and popular sovereignty is fiercely contested

Where will France go? Interview with La France Insoumise

Walden Bello interviews various leaders of La France Insoumise.
Catherine Connolly

Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the Irish left

Paul Murphy — Catherine Connolly’s victory in the Presidential election is a watershed moment. It is the first time the left has won a majority of votes in a national election.
Janis Ehling

‘We rose like the phoenix from the ashes’: Interview with Die Linke’s Janis Ehling

Walden Bello interviews the man behind Die Linke’s come-from-behind victory in the February 2025 Bundestag elections.
Panama Canal

Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains — it’s powering them

Benjamin Selwyn argues that geopolitical rivalries have stimulated the development of advanced technologies which in turn then have helped to shape global supply chains.
Nepal Gen Z protest

Nepal’s republic in crisis: After the streets erupted

Sushovan Dhar — Seventeen years after the palace’s fall, Nepal’s fragile republic faces another reckoning.
2006 General Strike

United States: Lessons from the 2006 general strike — A participant’s account

John Harris — The lesson we should draw from 2006 is that mass actions are the key element for turning back the offensive against migrants and working folk.