Phil Hearse — With the foundation of Your Party and Zack Polanski's victory in the Greens’ leadership election, combined with the surge of support for Reform UK, the importance of elections in combating fascism and the hard right comes to the fore.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Like 85 years ago, under the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Communism is illegal in Czechia.

Statements by Socialist Alliance (Australia), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Partido Lakas ng Masa (the Philippines) and Socialist Party of Malaysia opposing US imperialism’s latest threats against Cuba and in solidarity with the Cuban people.

Don Fitz — Stan Cox’s ‘Anthropause’ does what far too few degrowth books do by focusing on the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff.

Daria Saburova looks at how volunteer labor has become a site of gender and class tensions, and the specific features of class relations in contemporary Ukraine.

Malfred Gerig looks at why the January 3 US military assault occurred, what the new Delcy Rodríguez government represents and what it all means for Venezuelan sovereignty.

Chris Slee — Several reasons explain US hostility to the Maduro government.

Siyavash Shahabi explores the roots of Iran’s crisis and the currents that make up the recent wave of resistance.

Ida Nikou — Recent protests triggered by currency collapse and price shocks expose how sanctions have reconfigured state power, enabling austerity and insider accumulation rather than relief.

Eric Toussaint — US policy towards Europe has undergone a transformation under Trump, reflecting a desire for direct intervention in favour of far-right and neo-fascist parties or governments.

Markela Panegyres — The only force capable of making meaningful cracks in the imperialist and capitalist armour is a mass movement of international ecosocialism.

Rasti Delizo looks at the impacts of US-China tensions on Philippine politics and the left.