Julio Cesar Guanche charts out three paths Cuba could take as a result of the announced reforms: socialist renewal, negotiated transition or subordination to Washington.
Walking the tightrope under siege: Cuba’s reforms and the defence of socialist sovereignty
Cuba’s future need not be reduced to a choice between bureaucratic centralization and private capital accumulation, writes Isaac Saney.
The Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee reveal the extent of the tragedy triggered by Venezuela’s double earthquake, amid US military aggression, tutelage and financial restrictions.
Armenia’s elections and the future of the left
Can Armenia’s recent elections be reduced to a contest between a pro-Western Pashinyan and a pro-Russian opposition? Mikael Zolyan examines Armenia through a left-wing lens.
Malaysia: Why we need a progressive bloc
Malaysia needs a party that speaks about building a nation through policies that address the needs of all people, rather than feeding into toxic racialised politics, writes S Arutchelvan.
Algorithms of control and the politics of digital liberation
Rezgar Akrawi sketch out the contours of a left-wing vision of digital liberation, addressing this struggle’s most important fronts.
An interview with three Cuban economists — Juan Triana, Omar Everleny, and Julio Carranza — on the approved package of 176 economic measures in Cuba and the key priorities for overcoming the crisis.
When life for the people becomes so difficult, the primary duty is not to explain the crisis better, but to change whatever needs to be changed, contends Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
Cuba: An urgent, but risky, reform
The US economic war on Cuba makes reform riskier, yet this pressure has ultimately propelled a transformation that had been continuously postponed, writes La Joven Cuba.
Cuba has been abandoned by those who claim to challenge the unipolar order
With Cuba under attack from the US empire, major powers that present themselves as defenders of a multipolar world have confined themselves to declarations of solidarity, writes Eric Toussaint.
Making a revolution is more interesting than writing about one
When Soviet ideologues constructed Leninism, writes Boris Kagarlitsky, they missed the essence of his approach: a non-dogmatic openness in which theory is inseparable from ever-changing practice.
Lenin and the politics of broken time
Far more than a form of discipline and centralisation, Lenin’s guiding idea targets what he calls the “disorganising” confusion between party and class, contends Daniel Bensaïd.
