Boris Kagarlitsky — There is a danger in replacing the fight for the complete release of all political prisoners with the compilation of exchange lists aimed at freeing a few dozen relatively well-known individuals, while thousands of others remain behind bars.

Boris Kagarlitsky — The election results show that the mere threat of a reactionary turn was not enough. Liberals are now doomed to reap the fruits of their catastrophic policies, the dire consequences of which will affect not only the United States but the entire world.

Justin Akers Chacón — The defeat of the Democrats is not a reflection of hard right political shifts in the working class but a rejection of that party’s hard right shifts amid a deepening confluence of overarching crises.

Robert Brenner — The theory of imperialism put forward by Vladimir Lenin to end World War I remains, if properly qualified, the best point of departure for understanding imperialism today.

CPI(ML) Liberation — The forces of democracy and social, economic and climate justice in both the US and India have major lessons to learn from the Democratic debacle and Trump triumph.

Gilbert Achcar — Netanyahu had been eagerly hoping for this victory and did everything he could to contribute to its achievement. So, what awaits us now that Trump’s return to the White House is confirmed?

Solidarity — Even as we prepare to join the resistance to the coming onslaught, the socialist left needs to come to terms with the rightward political trends within much of the working class.

Kevin B. Anderson — The second election of Donald Trump to the US presidency and of the Trumpist Republican Party on November 5 represents nothing less than a new era of fascism.

Neirlay Andrade argues that the Maduro government’s refusal to publish election results means it ‘is crossing a line of no return and rapidly imposing a reactionary regime.’

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about the US elections, its potential impacts on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and prospects for a new world war.

Lance Selfa & Sharon Smith — The story of the 2024 election turned out to be remarkably straightforward. In a political environment where the electorate thought the country was moving in the wrong direction, voters tosses out the incumbent party.

Boaventura Monjane — Mozambique is at a critical juncture, with post-election discontent revealing deep-rooted flaws in its political system.