Yuet Zi — Five years have passed since Hong Kong’s mass movement of 2019. Despite the regime’s repression and white terror, the embers of resistance still smoulder in the hearts of every Hongkonger, unquenchable.

Reinaldo Iturriza looks at the competing — and inadequate — narratives surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election.

Antonio González Plessmann breaks down the country’s July 28 presidential election and its fallout from an anti-capitalist perspective.

Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with Arab regimes, Israel’s grip on the Biden administration and the strategic calculations of Hamas.

Michael Karadjis — Some of the states that have been most critical of Israel’s actions are also the ones who supply the majority of its oil and coal.

Yoletty Bracho — Amid the polarized conflict between the government and opposition, critical leftist voices struggle to advance their own political demands.

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes & Luís Bonilla-Molina — Unlike what had happened for the past 25 years with Venezuela's elections, the presidential vote on July 28 split the broad Latin American left from top to bottom.

Ricardo Vaz discusses the "big picture" of imperialist attacks against Venezuela and international solidarity.

Robert T Tally Jr — While some Marxists may look upon this scene with bemusement, fantasy as a mode and a genre is far too important to allow the right-wingers to take for themselves, and that includes the works of Tolkien.

Rasti Delizo — The enduring struggle for the socialist transformation of the Philippines resolutely marches onward in the early half of the 21st century.

Michael Roberts — The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh is a startling outcome of the economic nightmare that many so-called developing economies are experiencing.

Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.