Cyn Huang and Michaela Brangan discuss the significance of Trump’s attacks on hard-won rights and his administration’s policy shift on Gaza, Ukraine and Europe.
Trump 2.0: A new stage of imperialism
Paul Clarke — We are facing a new era of heightened US nationalism, imperialist bullying and oligarchic rule by diktat.
Noor Sadaque — The World Food Programme’s announced reduction in food rations for Rohingya refugees is a potential death sentence for a community already on the brink of starvation.
Boris Kagarlitsky on the New Deal proposal for Russia
Writing from a penal colony in Russia, Boris Kagarlitsky provides a detailed analysis of the New Deal proposal for Russia being developed by a group of leftist economists.
Daria Saburova: ‘We must take an interest in the complex realities of Ukrainian society’
Daria Saburova analyses how structures of armed and unarmed resistance have developed in Ukraine, three years after the start of Russia’s full-scale war.
Serhiy Kudelia discusses how the war between Russia and Ukraine began and the role that Donbas residents and elites played in it.
From confrontation to engagement: The strategic logic of US rapprochement with Russia
US re-engagement with Russia under Trump came as a shock to many, particularly its European allies. Dmitry Pozhidaev looks at the deeper strategic logic underpinning this apparent tectonic shift in US foreign policy.
The Trump-Putin axis and its impact on global politics
Peter Hudis — Trump’s forging of a political alliance with Putin at the expense of Ukraine may not be totally unexpected, but its speed and extent represent a dramatic transformation of world politics.
So-called axis of resistance: Which way forward for Palestinian liberation?
Joseph Daher discusses regional and multipolar imperialism, the limits of Iranian resistance, and the international path toward Palestinian liberation.
To save the environment, we must end the profit system
Ian Angus talks about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth and ecosocialism.
Exposing the big con: The false promise of Artificial Intelligence
Marty Hart-Landsberg — The uncritical and rapidly increasing adoption of AI systems by schools, businesses, the media, and the military represents a serious threat to our collective well-being. We need to push back, and push back hard, against this big tech offensive.
Trump’s United States: Resisting the ‘everything, everywhere all at once’ blitzkrieg
Max Elbaum — MAGA’s fast-moving coup is upending the longstanding arrangements that have undergirded domestic politics and the US role in the world. What does this mean for the resistance, and how can the US left maximize its impact?