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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.
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‘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.
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Turkey: Political crisis and democratic movement

Emre Öngün — It is necessary to understand the context behind Imamoğlu's arrest and the PKK peace process, two seemingly contradictory dynamics, to grasp the potentials and pitfalls Turkey's democratic movement faces.
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Was Marx wrong about the declining rate of profit? William Jefferies response to James Doughney

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s attempted refutation of Karl Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is thoughtful and thorough, but ultimately wrong.
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Friedrich Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy

Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels to understanding the politics of the English working class.
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Britain: Is the working class back?

Dan Evans — Workers have structural power, as the strike wave of 2022 demonstrated. But the working class remains weak and fragmented, and its politics are increasingly chaotic. What is to be done?
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The UnitedHealth Insurance CEO killing and contested violence in a capitalist society

Vince Montes asks: Why are many people looking past the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and focusing more on Luigi Mangione as a kind of hero?
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Britain: New alliance needed to combat fascism

Phil Hearse — The idea fascists can be defeated by being “no platformed“ has shown its limitations. A socialist and green political alternative that can have an impact at the level of the masses is needed.
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Trump’s foreign policy: The method behind the madness

Lance Selfa — Even if Trump tends to see U.S. foreign policy as little more than an extension of his reality TV persona, the changes that his administration are initiating are momentous.