Europe
When workers resisted deindustrialisation
Romain Castellesi discusses the nature of struggles against deindustrialisation in France and the importance of working class history and memory in the face of economic crisis.
Germany’s Die Linke takes a stand
Die Linke surges past the Social Democratic Party of Germany in polls as it battles austerity and the far-right — and names the genocide in Gaza, writes Ruairi Casey.
Geopolitical fractures and the Marxist critique of imperialism
Alex Callinicos shows how the Marxist critique of imperialism can encompass aspects of the present conjuncture that liberalism and realism cannot account for, above all, the genocide in Gaza and fracturing of the ‘global West’.
NATO and the North Atlantic left: A road to nowhere
Jana Silverman and Jaime Caro look at alternatives socialists on both sides of the Atlantic can propose to promote geopolitical stability in the face of the global polycrisis.
Before making Ceuta evidence in an argument about Palestine, NATO, or regional diplomacy, Nashwa Lina Khan says we should first ask the more immediate question: Why is Spain in Africa?
Benjamin Bürbaumer discusses why capitalism leads great powers to resort to coercion, how Western Europe became integrated into US capitalism, and whether China could displace a declining US with a new Sino-centred capitalism.
While Ukraine’s political mainstream will likely remain anchored in a right-liberal paradigm for the foreseeable future, the potential for grassroots mobilization and incremental change is real, says Olena Tkalich.
Forced emigration and political repression are two sides of the same coin: a policy that deprives people of any right to a future, argue the al-Mounadila Current.
Denmark: ‘Many voters want a more left-leaning government’
Pelle Dragsted explains how the Danish socialist party Enhedslisten won concessions from the country’s new government coalition.
Understanding Albania’s Flamingo Revolution
Gresa Hasa looks at how a Jared Kushner real estate project became a rallying point against crony capitalism.
Britain: Poverty and inequality fuel Labour’s crisis
Britain’s Labour government is in turmoil. Phil Hearse looks beyond media scandals such as the Mandelson-Epstein revelations, to lay out what is really behind the crisis.
Boris Kagarlitsky argues that right-wing populists succeeded by absorbing the redistributive language of the left while abandoning any structural challenge to property relations.
