Joseph Daher — Syria's future will depend on the ability of democratic and progressive groups to organise themselves in the face of both internal and external threats.

Dipankar Bhattacharya look at the history of the communist movement in India to draw inspiration and lessons from the past for facing the challenges of the present.

Greg Yudin — There is no alternative on offer for Russia now and this is felt by both the masses and elites. But without a clear and coherent alternative, change is unlikely to come.

Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.

Robert Springborg on how the Egyptian dictator secures his violent rule.

Youngsu Won — North Korea is an enigma in many senses of the word, but leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send troops to fight in Russia’s war on Ukraine shocked many in South Korea and internationally.

Luís Bonilla-Molina — To understand the situation of the Venezuelan working class, it is important to analyse the Maduro government and Madurismo in three phases.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — In 2024, Serbia offered a particularly clear reflection of the three core dimensions of capitalism’s crisis: political, economic and systemic.

Ia Eradze, Luka Nakhutsrishvili and Lela Rekhviashvili discuss the roots of the Georgian uprising, its trajectory, and Georgia’s place in global capitalism and the imperialist order.

David Kotz dissects the lessons from the Soviet model, explains why capitalism cannot be reformed and makes a case for democratic socialism.

A new left-wing political organisation, Comunes, has been launched in Venezuela to confront the government’s repressive authoritarianism, neoliberal economic policies and attacks on working people’s rights.

Greg Godels argues that the road to defeating imperial aggression — US or any other — is to win the working class to the fight with a class-oriented program that attacks the roots of imperialism: capitalism.