The Cairo West power plant near the Nile river, Cairo, Egypt, 2025.

Hardwiring normalization — Infrastructures, extraction and Gaza’s future

Rafeef Ziadah — Trump’s vision seeks to fold Gaza into Israeli, Egyptian and Gulf networks under US trusteeship, merging Gulf capital and Israeli technology while reducing Palestinians to obstacles to be displaced or bypassed.
Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Venezuelan American community at the Florida International University Ocean Bank Convocation Center on February 18, 2019, in Miami, Florida.

With Trump, polarization among Venezuelans reaches new heights

Steve Ellner — Washington’s Venezuela policy has intensified divisions within the opposition, revealing class divides and fears over the fallout from a potential US invasion.
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There are no ceasefires on stolen land: Liberation, not liberal Zionism

Tithi Bhattacharya — Nothing is more urgent than an assessment of the ceasefire and a collective discussion of future strategies for the international Palestine movement.
Voices against Putins war

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin

Simon Pirani — At the heart of “Voices Against Putin’s War” are ten speeches made in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested and tried for doing so.
What’s the future for New York City under Zorhan Mamdani’s win?

The Zohran Mamdani Campaign: Solidarity with the movement and critical notes on the future

Solidarity — Mamdani’s meteoric victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and his pending general election success in November, sheds light on critical facets of the broader US political turmoil.
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Has the Anthropocene been canceled?

Ian Angus — One of the world’s largest scientific organizations has voted against formal recognition of the Anthropocene. The debates that led to this result help to illuminate the challenges facing scientists and ecosocialists.
Forced displacement Gaza

Trump’s ‘peace’ in the Middle East: A retrocolonialism built on sand

Kevin B. Anderson provides a preliminary assessment of the consequences of the Gaza war and the future.
Trump in Egypt

Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh: A festival of obsequiousness

Gilbert Achcar — If the scenes of Trump’s celebration at the Israeli Knesset and in Sharm el-Sheikh were staged for cinematic exploitation, they would undoubtedly rank among the worst productions in history.
Transport workers, university students, and Generation Z groups—represented by the One Piece symbol—leading the march toward Congress in Lima. (Stifs Paucca Suárez)

Peru’s Gen Z helps bring down the president

Lucero Chávez — Inspired by a global wave of protest, Peru's youth protesters have turned social media outrage into mass mobilization against corruption and repression.
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Venezuelan socialist groups: Stop imperialist aggression against Venezuela! Trump’s troops out of the Caribbean and Latin America!

Trump’s military deployment opens the door to a possible armed intervention by the United States in Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean on October 3, 2025. (Photo: screenshot/Donald Trump/Truth Social)

Murder in the Caribbean: How should we interpret the dramatic escalation in US policy towards Venezuela?

Gabriel Hetland — Trump’s recent actions should be understood as part of a longstanding pattern of US aggression towards the Maduro regime. Yet there are also notable distinctions.