Biden Netanyahu

The historic relationship of interdependency between Israel and the US empire is mutating

Jonas Marvin — The strained imperial hegemon (and its allies) could be dragged into a regional war of aggression it does not want, precisely because of the colonial monster it has created.
Protest free political prisoners Venezuela

Venezuela after the presidential election: ‘This is not a left-wing government’

Atenea Jiménez & Simón Rodríguez — More and more leftists, including former Bolivarian activists, are forming new coalitions and campaigns against the government.
A youth raises his middle finger while riding public transportation in Caracas, Venezuela on September 7, 2023 © Maxwell Briceño.

Postcard from a Venezuelan feminist in Caracas

Ariadna Mogollón — Venezuela is not the same country it was in 2017, or 2018 when there was a very intense economic crisis due to the blockade imposed by the US. There has been an economic recovery, but its a recovery that has deepened class divisions.
Israel Lebanon border

Gilbert Achcar: ‘Israel has openly threaten to transform parts of Lebanon into another Gaza’

Gilbert Achcar — Since Israel has basically completed the most intensive stage of its destruction in Gaza, it is now turning against Hezbollah to secure its northern border.
bombing Southern Lebanon

Gilbert Achcar: Hezbollah’s miscalculation

Gilbert Achcar — The truth is that Hezbollah fell into the trap set for it by Israel, through its insistence on continuing to exchange fire “until a ceasefire in Gaza”, while it became clear that the battle was shifting from the wracked Strip to Lebanon.
Putin meeting with Russian capitalists

Class analysis and Russian imperialism: A response to Ilya Matveev

Dmitry Pozhidaev — By focusing on ideology and Putin’s personal motivations, Matveev overlooks class dynamics and the material interests of Russia’s capitalist class, which are crucial to understanding Russia’s post-2014 foreign policy.
South African workers

South Africa: The populist threat and the response of the left

Amandla! — The ANC-DA Alliance is more deeply committed to neoliberalism than even its predecessors. The need for a consolidated voice of the working class and the poor is greater than ever.
Israel bombing in Baalbek

Stop the spread of Israel’s genocidal war into Lebanon!

Kevin B. Anderson — On Israel’s brutal assassinations, its colonialist arrogance, and the limitations of Hezbollah’s model of resistance.
Global Capitalism’s Extermination Impulse

Gaza genocide: A glimpse into global capitalism’s extermination impulse

William I Robinson — The unspeakable savagery of the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the absolute impunity of the Israeli genocidists and their Western sponsors have sparked a global intifada of solidarity with Palestine.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Comrade President? Change and continuity in Sri Lanka

Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons.
CPIML MCC merger rally

The MCC-CPI(ML) unification: Convergence of two legacies and trajectories of the Communist movement in India

Dipankar Bhattacharya — The merger of the Marxist Coordination Committee into the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) has been greatly welcomed by the broad left ranks across the country.
Fredric Jameson

Boris Kagarlitsky: Obituary for Fredric Jameson (1934-2024)

Boris Kagarlitsky — While in prison, I have received several messages regarding the passing of colleagues. Now, news has arrived about the death of Fredric Jameson, the author of seminal works on the culture of late capitalism.