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Venezuela’s diverse lefts need internationalist solidarity
Yoletty Bracho — Amid the polarized conflict between the government and opposition, critical leftist voices struggle to advance their own political demands.
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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.
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Venezuela: Not losing sight of imperialism
Ricardo Vaz discusses the "big picture" of imperialist attacks against Venezuela and international solidarity.
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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.
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The BMP’s resolute struggle for socialism in the Philippines
Rasti Delizo — The enduring struggle for the socialist transformation of the Philippines resolutely marches onward in the early half of the 21st century.
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Bangladesh: The ‘Global South’ debt crisis intensifies
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.
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Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.
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US politics today: Chaos, conflict and a creeping constitutional crisis
Ashley Smith — The greater evil is obviously Trump and the far-right GOP. Harris and the Democratic Party are lesser evils by comparison. But that does not exonerate them of being evil.
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Susan Price — To say “Capitalism kills” is not hyperbole. Capitalism is simply incompatible with life on Earth.
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William I Robinson: The global meaning of Gaza
William I Robinson — The genocide in Gaza and the repression of Palestine solidarity around the world tell a larger story of global capitalist crisis.
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Lenin on Serbia’s role in World War I: A useful analogy for the current Ukraine war?
Michael Pröbsting looks at Lenin’s actual position on the defence of Serbia in World War I and why it is wrong to apply it to the Ukraine War today.
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The 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place in Porto Alegre in 2025
Following its cancellation due to the floods in Porto Alegre in May 2024, the 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place next year in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.