Workers assemble solar panels at a factory of Jiangsu DMEGC New Energy Co. in Suqian, China, 22 July 2025. Photo: IMAGO / VCG

Green capitalism is not dead yet

Philipp Köncke looks at how the Chinese party-state overtook the West in the renewable energy market.
Venezuela boat

Venezuela: Surgentes condemns US interference and extrajudicial execution of 17 Venezuelans

Faced with the United States’ hostile military presence in the Southern Caribbean since August 2025, the human rights collective Surgentes issued the following statement.
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Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution: For a peaceful and democratic solution to Venezuela’s grave crisis

Citizens’ Platform in Defense of the Constitution — The extremely serious situation we have outlined has one thing in common: the violation of our sovereignty by two different forces.
Edgardo Lander Tempest

Venezuela’s authoritarian turn and the repression of its left: An interview with Edgardo Lander

Edgardo Lander reflects on the deepening repression in Venezuela, the criminalization of dissent, and the stakes for academic freedom, democracy, and international solidarity.
Rodrigo Paz celebrates alongside his supporters on the night of Sunday, August 17. (Benjamin Swift)

From hope to disillusionment: Bolivia after 20 years of the Movement Towards Socialism

Linda Farthing & Benjamin Swift — Amidst bitter infighting and economic crisis, Bolivia’s left suffered a major defeat after nearly two decades of groundbreaking governance.
BRICS 2024 Russia

The BRICS are the new defenders of free trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank

Eric Toussaint on why the BRICS do not offer an alternative financing and trade model for the Global South.
Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, and Vladimir Putin speak together before the group photo at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, 1 September 2025. Photo: IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire

Dispelling the multipolar myth

Patrick Bond on why BRICS is not a threat to imperialism and an “anti-polar” alternative is needed.
Israeli tank

From domination to extermination: Israel’s military industry and strategy since 1948

Shir Hever — Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives.
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Gaza and global neofascism

Gilbert Achcar — Western governments’ support for the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza has been part of a gradual banalization of the far right by the “centrists”.
Bjarke Friborg

Bjarke Friborg (Red-Green Alliance, Denmark): ‘There is no contradiction between military support for Ukraine and criticising NATO and the arms industry’

Bjarke Friborg discusses his recent visit to Ukraine and why the Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on issues of popular defence and security in Europe.
Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Store and his wife Marit Slagsvold vote in the 2025 General Election at Uranienborg School in Oslo.

Norway election: Labour narrowly holds on to power amid uncertainty

Ellen Engelstad — In the end the left bloc won the election, but the vote has delivered a far less convincing mandate for change than the previous one
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Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.