Husam Mahjoub — Understanding the UAE’s role in reshaping regional geopolitics is critical to challenge imperialist power structures effectively.

Thomas Goes — Building a broad, cross-party front is crucial to defeating the far-right surge in Germany.

Fred Leplat and Liz Lawrence explore the situation facing Ukraine today and key solidarity tasks in the months ahead.

Hanna Perekhoda looks at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.

James Doughney interrogates some commonly held beliefs and assumptions about monopoly capital, surplus profits and the export of capital — and explains why they are not coherent.

Hanna Perekhoda revisits Lenin’s pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his Ukrainian contemporary, Lev Yurkevych.

Iqra Anugrah — The rise of potential state challengers to US dominance does not mean the ushering in of a new progressive era, but it can represent opportunities for social movements to challenge Western imperialism.

Leónidas Iza analyses the country’s economic and political crisis, the impact of popular mobilisations and the need to articulate a project from the grassroots that combines social struggles and electoral disputes.

Kevin B. Anderson — A few months after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned.

Rafeef Ziadah — The genocide in Gaza lays bare the harsh realities of modern geopolitics, highlighting the mechanisms of power in a world shaped by imperial ambitions and the strategic exploitation of resources.

Gilbert Achcar — With each passing day and at an accelerating pace, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale.

Manuel Aguilar Mora — Trump proclaimed that his MAGA movement was the beginning of a new US. But where is this new US going?