PLM election rally

The Philippines after the mid-term elections: Towards a showdown in 2028

Sonny Melencio — The situation can be summarised as follows: “All the forces of heaven and hell are in formation, ready for the battle to come.” 
Die Linke graphic Tempest

Inside Die Linke: An interview on the state of Germany’s left party

Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer discuss the shifting dynamics within Die Linke and building durable infrastructure for the class struggle within and beyond the party.
Bombed buildings at Al-Aqsa University’s Khan Younis campus. Credit: Doaa Rouqa/Reuters

The colonised university: Destruction of knowledge in Palestine, denial of coloniality in France

Sbeih Sbeih asks what it means to produce critical scholarship from within institutions that are complicit in the face of the colonial (and genocidal) enterprise.
Lenin museum statute

A Lenin for the 21st century

Paul Le Blanc on the indissoluble tie between reform and revolution.

ASEAN countries need to re-think their economic strategy (plus video: Towards a people-centred ASEAN)

Jeyakumar Devaraj — The ASEAN Summit 2025 meeting is an opportunity to evaluate the Socialist Party of Malaysia’s following proposals.
US Ukraine minerals deal trap

‘Drill, baby, drill’: How the extraction and export of critical raw materials can exacerbate Ukraine’s resource trap

Maryna Larina — The global race for raw materials can provoke foreign interference and endanger countries that become targets of predatory extractivism.
India Pakistan war

One hundred hours of solitude: A Pakistani peacenik recounts the India-Pakistan war

The India-Pakistan war is apparently over for now — but it has not stopped for peaceniks, recounts Farooq Sulehria.
Citizens share a box of sweets and hold up posters celebrating the success of Operation Sindoor in Bengaluru on Wednesday

Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and after: Lessons India must learn (plus: Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor, ceasefire: Pressing questions awaiting answers)

Dipankar Bhattacharya — Events from the terrorist attack in Pahalgam to the announced ceasefire have given rise to questions regarding India's national security and foreign policy.
assassination attempt

Trump, protectionism and imperial conflict in global capitalism: An interview with Michael Roberts

Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about Trump, the rule of his fellow oligarchs, and their  impact on the trajectory of the United States, global capitalism, and great power competition.
Free Syria flag drapped over ruins

The Syrian conflict is not yet over: Assad has fallen, but the revolution hasn’t won

Yassin al-Haj Saleh — The enormity of Assad’s fall is one thing; claiming the revolution has triumphed is another.
Anthony Albanese (left) and Max Chandler-Mather

Australia: Labor consolidates as main party of capital, Greens’ left challenge has mixed results

Stuart Munckton — Labor has replaced the dysfunctional conservatives as the main party of Australian capitalism, simultaneously opening space to its left.
Maduro raising fist

‘Neoliberal and authoritarian’? A simplistic analysis of the Maduro government that leaves much unsaid

Steve Ellner — Gabriel Hetland’s article “Capitalism and authoritarianism in Maduro’s Venezuela” presents a one-sided and decontextualised view of Venezuela under Maduro.