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Prioritizing great power rivalry with China: Trump’s strategy to reassert US dominance

Despite the chaos, confusion and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project — escalating imperial rivalry with China — argues Ashley Smith.
Russian military cadets in Saint Petersburg on April 23.

Capital, power and war: The crisis of Russia’s peripheral accumulation regime

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.
Gaza catastrophe

‘Atlanticist liberalism can never recover from its present agony’

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.
Boris on Trump

From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’: Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s first 100 days

Despite severe restrictions on political prisoners, Boris Kagarlitsky continues to analyse global developments. Here, he offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the dynamics behind Trump’s return to power.
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New imperialist powers, capitalist unipolarity and proletarian internationalism: An interview with Rasti Delizo (Part II)

Rasti Delizo explains the rise of new imperialist powers and faulty logic behind multipolarity, and argues for an anti-imperialism rooted in working-class solidarity.
Melenchon

‘The US has decided to redraw the map of the Middle East’: Tariq Ali in conversation with Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Tariq Ali speaks to La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon about Gaza, the US war drive against China and the French far right.
Xi and Trump

The social cost of China’s resistance to Trump’s tariff war

Au Loong-Yu & An Dexin — Next time someone tells you how brave and resilient China has been in standing up against Trump, remind them of this part of the story.
Chinese women workers

China’s labour movement under fire: An interview with Manfred Elfstrom

Manfred Elfstrom discusses recent labour struggles in China and what they tell us about prospects for change under an authoritarian regime.
Arakan Army on the border

Caught between the military junta and Arakan Army: Rohingyas and the fight for Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Rohingya groups are fighting to reclaim their rights — against the Arakan Army, the military junta and foreign powers responsible for their persecution. 
war or peace?

In support of ‘synchronized global disarmament’

Gilbert Achcar discusses ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.
assassination attempt

Trump, protectionism and imperial conflict in global capitalism: An interview with Michael Roberts

Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about Trump, the rule of his fellow oligarchs, and their  impact on the trajectory of the United States, global capitalism, and great power competition.
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Gilbert Achcar: ‘For the neofascists, the law of the jungle is the only one that makes sense’

Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture.

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