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. 
Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty.

Ceasefire just first step to justice and peace: An urgent call by Indian and Pakistani feminists

Feminists from India and Pakistan call for immediate de-escalation, dialogue, and justice in the wake of renewed hostilities between the two nations.
Chaudhry Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Poets vs hawks: War hysteria in India-Pakistan

Farooq Sulehria — While the hawks dominate the mosque and media in Pakistan, the hearts and minds of Pakistan’s ordinary people have always been captivated by her Dervish poets.

Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Party, Pakistan): ‘The wars we need to fight are against poverty, disease and authoritarianism’

Ammar Ali Jan discusses the current India-Pakistan ceasefire deal, self-determination for Kashmir and steps towards peace in the region. 
Democracy in Caucasus graphic Tempest

The fight for democracy, social justice and equality in the Caucasus: An interview with Georgia’s Movement for Social Democracy

Ashley Smith interviews Vano Abramashvili, Maia Barkaia, Ia Eradze and Sopho Verdzueli about the current struggle in Georgia and the new organization they have set up, Movement for Social Democracy.
Posle graphic Achcar interview

Gilbert Achcar: ‘For the neofascists, the law of the jungle is the only one that makes sense’

Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture.
Kanthan farmland

Hidden crisis: Malaysia’s food security blind spots

Jeyakumar Devaraj — The country’s reliance on imports leaves the nation vulnerable to global food shortages. Here’s what the government can do.
Western Sahara

Western Sahara: Colonialism, labor and imperialist complicity

Isabel Lourenço — This year marks 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara: a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, and a web of international complicity.
Boris from prison Spichka

Should we expect a new world war? Two prison letters from Boris Kagarlitsky

Boris Kagarlitsky reflects on the possibilities of a new world war by drawing on historical analogies, analysing China’s place in the global system, and uncovering the deeper structural crises that underpin today’s international conflicts.
Karl Marx Friedrich Engels

The declining rate of profit: Avoiding the key issue

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s latest contribution to the discussion on Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall avoids the key point: the relationship between the proportional rise in the mass of physical capital and productivity rate rises.
Pakistan military shoot down Indian drone.

From the front line: A Pakistani socialist looks at the India-Pakistan War 2025

Farooq Tariq — Many friends and comrades have asked if I think a full-fledged war is now erupting between two nuclear-armed neighbours. My reply has been that war has already started.