April 22 Call CPIML Liberation

CPI(ML) Liberation: The Call of April 22, 2025

CPI(ML) Liberation — With the fascist offensive intensifying, the battle for democracy calls for greater unity, strength and determination. As revolutionary communists, we must play a vanguard role in this battle.
President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 25, 2019.

Capitalism and authoritarianism in Maduro’s Venezuela

Gabriel Hetland — Maduro’s authoritarianism has garnered significant attention, but there has been less notice of the transformation in Maduro’s class base.
Incumbent President Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s Presidential runoff vote on Sunday, defeating his opponent Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution party. (Flickr/Casa de América/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ecuador enters ‘Trump mode’ with Noboa victory

Ociel Alí López — Authoritarian drift and political blackmail shape the runoff election in Ecuador, where incumbent President Daniel Noboa won Sunday’s vote.
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Ecuador: How militarization and fear politics secured the right’s victory

Augusto Barrera Guarderas, Franklin Ramírez Gallegos and Pablo Ospina Peralta give their opinions on Ecuador's elections and what the results portend for the country's political future and the fate of democracy.
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One should not camouflage capitalist and imperialist China as “socialist”: A reply to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster

Michael Pröbsting — While Foster and Ness make correct criticisms of left-wing authors who ignore imperialist superexploitation of semicolonial countries, both fail to understand the essence of the Marxist theory of imperialism.
Illustration by Shehzil Malik

Can China challenge the US empire?

Sean Kenji Starrs — It is important to look beyond the headlines at structural power, namely security, finance, production and knowledge, to get a more accurate view of China’s potential and limitations as a global power.
Trump's peace plan = occupation

Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — We reject imperialist rearmament and instead argue for a new internationalism of the people.
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Ukraine and the Trump-Putin axis of reaction

Christopher Ford — Ukraine’s fight for freedom is intrinsically linked to the global battle against reactionary forces.
A forest of oil derricks at the Signal Hill oilfield in southern California, 1937.

‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism

Adam Hanieh — We cannot understand the Gaza genocide today, or the crucial place of the Middle East in US geopolitical ambitions, without centering the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism.
From bad to worse: The new political setting and challenges for the Canadian left

From bad to worse: The new political setting and challenges for the Canadian left

Socialist Project — The growing threat of the right must be addressed. But this must not come at the expense of dissolving socialist politics into coalitions whose strategies have been responsible for the growth of hard-right forces in the first place.
Trump tariff economic crash

‘Tariffs are a beautiful thing to behold’: A Marxist analysis of protectionism and the crisis of global capitalism

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Trump’s tariffs are less a blueprint for industrial renewal than a prelude to a new techno-nationalist order organised around capital control, technological dominance and regional economic blocs.
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Dmitrii Kovalev (Left for Peace without Annexations, Russia): ‘True peace requires going back to Ukraine’s original borders’

Dmitrii Kovalev explains who are the Left for Peace without Annexations and their stance towards the key questions facing Russian anti-war activists.