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Could Trump’s tariff war reshape global capitalism? An interview with Marxist economist Sam Gindin

Sam Gindin breaks down US President Donald Trump’s on-again/off-again tariffs, their impacts on US-led globalised capitalism, and what a working-class response could look like
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Madness as method: The logic of Trump’s tariffs

The stakes of a trade war with China are high. Thomas Hummel looks for the logic behind the tariff gamble.
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The Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir: Questions the Modi government must answer

Dipankar Bhattacharya — The people must unite against fascist forces’ despicable attempts to sow further hatred and insist on holding those in power accountable to ensure the truth does not become another casualty of the Pahalgam tragedy.
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The British Supreme Court decision on gender and sex: When law becomes the means of oppression

DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism.
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Valuing care work: A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni discusses social reproduction theory and the Wages for Housework campaign to develop a new theory of the value of what is often called reproductive labour and the role of gender in the sector.
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Brazil: A call for solidarity against the expulsion of PSOL MP Glauber Braga from Congress

Mark Johnson — Federal Deputy Glauber Braga, a prominent member of Brazil’s leftist party PSOL, is facing an unprecedented political attack.
US president Donald Trump hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump is weakening US influence in Latin America

Steve Ellner — Thanks to his stances on issues ranging from deportations to trade policy, Trump is undermining US influence across Latin America, increasing political polarization, and strengthening the hand of progressive forces.
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South Asian left statements on the Pahalgam terrorist attack and current India-Pakistan tensions

Statements from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (Pakistan) on the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam and subsequent escalating tensions between India and Pakistan.
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Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution — Break with capitalist growth

The Fourth International has publishing this Manifesto because it is convinced that the process of ecosocialist revolution, at different territorial levels but with a planetary dimension, is more necessary than ever.
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Communist Party of the Philippines: Background to the 1993 Split

Max Lane — At the heart of the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines were issues of democratic centralism, absolutist deviations, militarist thinking and rejection of the Maoist approach to guerrilla warfare.
Jose Maria Sison of the Communist Party of the Philippines delivers a lecture in 1986. International Network for Phillipine Studies

Leninism versus Stalinism: The debate in the Communist Party of the Philippines

Sonny Melencio — The debate in the Communist Party of the Philippines was a fundamental struggle between the Leninist concept of the party and the Stalinist distortions of it, as propagated and practiced by its national leadership.
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‘Global Battlefields’: Filipino socialist Walden Bello’s no-holds-barred reckoning

Max Elbaum — Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.