Max Elbaum — The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine. This achievement opens the path to forcing a change in US policy and to putting internationalism at the center of the progressive movement’s agenda.

In this conversation, Edgardo Lander seeks to move beyond the dogmatic, schematic and sectarian views that characterise much of the international flow of information and analysis on Venezuela.

Michael Pröbsting — The rapid process of capitalist development in China and its rise as an imperialist power is one of the most important questions for Marxists today.

Renfrey Clarke — In the view of Marxists, the rift that divides the world is a direct result of imperialism, whose core is always material and economic.

Liz Lawrence explores the direction of the Labour government and what remains of the Labour Left. She also discusses pensioners’ poverty and resistance, and how ecosocialists should respond.

Progressive and left voices in Bangladesh give their views on the recent mass upsurge and assessment and expectations of the interim administration in place.

Ammar Ali Jan discusses the challenges of building a new workers’ party in Pakistan — and the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party's recent victories for Lahore’s most vulnerable workers.

Jason Devine — If Marx did not break with idealism thanks to Feuerbach, then the following questions arise: did Feuerbach actually influence Marx, and, if so, how?

Gerardo Rojas discusses the July 28 presidential election, the current state of community organising in the country and why we might be witnessing the Maduro government’s final break with the Bolivarian process.

Áron Rossman-Kiss — The EU was crucial to Viktor Orbán’s rise — now, he wants to remake it in his own image.

Loren Balhorn — For the first time since the defeat of the Third Reich, a far-right party has won a state-wide election, indicating a profound level of alienation vis-à-vis the political establishment among a wide swathe of the electorate.

Gilbert Achcar — The two emirates’ sharp contrast in foreign policy strategy is, in fact, a boon for Washington’s policy in the extended Middle East.