Janis Ehling

‘We rose like the phoenix from the ashes’: Interview with Die Linke’s Janis Ehling

Walden Bello interviews the man behind Die Linke’s come-from-behind victory in the February 2025 Bundestag elections.
Panama Canal

Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains — it’s powering them

Benjamin Selwyn argues that geopolitical rivalries have stimulated the development of advanced technologies which in turn then have helped to shape global supply chains.
Nepal Gen Z protest

Nepal’s republic in crisis: After the streets erupted

Sushovan Dhar — Seventeen years after the palace’s fall, Nepal’s fragile republic faces another reckoning.
2006 General Strike

United States: Lessons from the 2006 general strike — A participant’s account

John Harris — The lesson we should draw from 2006 is that mass actions are the key element for turning back the offensive against migrants and working folk.
Morocco Gen Z

Morocco’s Gen Z and the regional volcano

Gilbert Achcar — The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.
The Cairo West power plant near the Nile river, Cairo, Egypt, 2025.

Hardwiring normalization — Infrastructures, extraction and Gaza’s future

Rafeef Ziadah — Trump’s vision seeks to fold Gaza into Israeli, Egyptian and Gulf networks under US trusteeship, merging Gulf capital and Israeli technology while reducing Palestinians to obstacles to be displaced or bypassed.
Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Venezuelan American community at the Florida International University Ocean Bank Convocation Center on February 18, 2019, in Miami, Florida.

With Trump, polarization among Venezuelans reaches new heights

Steve Ellner — Washington’s Venezuela policy has intensified divisions within the opposition, revealing class divides and fears over the fallout from a potential US invasion.
Palestinian statehood

There are no ceasefires on stolen land: Liberation, not liberal Zionism

Tithi Bhattacharya — Nothing is more urgent than an assessment of the ceasefire and a collective discussion of future strategies for the international Palestine movement.
Voices against Putins war

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin

Simon Pirani — At the heart of “Voices Against Putin’s War” are ten speeches made in court by people who opposed Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested and tried for doing so.
What’s the future for New York City under Zorhan Mamdani’s win?

The Zohran Mamdani Campaign: Solidarity with the movement and critical notes on the future

Solidarity — Mamdani’s meteoric victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and his pending general election success in November, sheds light on critical facets of the broader US political turmoil.
MR Antropocene

Has the Anthropocene been canceled?

Ian Angus — One of the world’s largest scientific organizations has voted against formal recognition of the Anthropocene. The debates that led to this result help to illuminate the challenges facing scientists and ecosocialists.