John Tully — Sadly, the world has ignored the history of criminal abuse that followed the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne.

Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.

Nasrin Parvaz discusses the fallout of the recent US-Israeli war on Iran and the Islamic regime’s response.

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.

Despite the chaos, confusion and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project — escalating imperial rivalry with China — argues Ashley Smith.

Chris Slee — Some rightly denounce NATO’s military build-up, but refuse to do the same with Russia’s military build-up and invasion of Ukraine. Yet both are diverting resources to war, while neglecting their people and the environment.

Where do Russia’s environmental, human-rights, and Indigenous movements overlap? Kirill Medvedev discusses new forms of struggle across Russia’s internal borders.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Russia’s war in Ukraine is not simply a geopolitical miscalculation or ideological excess, but a structurally embedded feature of its capitalist accumulation regime.

Dante Espinoza takes a look at the available data on Venezuela’s economy and communes to see how well claims the Maduro government is progressive and anti-imperialist stack up.

Araz Bağban — In their desire to push back imperialism, some leftists ignore everything else, including the right of 90 million Iranians to determine their own destiny.

Jason Devine provides an overview of the intellectual roots of Marx’s approach and explains the dialectical logic of his analysis of the commodity.