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Incumbent President Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s Presidential runoff vote on Sunday, defeating his opponent Luisa González of the Citizens’ Revolution party. (Flickr/Casa de América/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ecuador enters ‘Trump mode’ with Noboa victory

Ociel Alí López — Authoritarian drift and political blackmail shape the runoff election in Ecuador, where incumbent President Daniel Noboa won Sunday’s vote.
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Ukraine and the Trump-Putin axis of reaction

Christopher Ford — Ukraine’s fight for freedom is intrinsically linked to the global battle against reactionary forces.
From bad to worse: The new political setting and challenges for the Canadian left

From bad to worse: The new political setting and challenges for the Canadian left

Socialist Project — The growing threat of the right must be addressed. But this must not come at the expense of dissolving socialist politics into coalitions whose strategies have been responsible for the growth of hard-right forces in the first place.
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‘Tariffs are a beautiful thing to behold’: A Marxist analysis of protectionism and the crisis of global capitalism

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Trump’s tariffs are less a blueprint for industrial renewal than a prelude to a new techno-nationalist order organised around capital control, technological dominance and regional economic blocs.
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Trump’s foreign policy: The method behind the madness

Lance Selfa — Even if Trump tends to see U.S. foreign policy as little more than an extension of his reality TV persona, the changes that his administration are initiating are momentous.
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The man who would be king: Method in Trump’s madness, contradictions in Trump’s method

Sam Gindin — Whatever Trump’s inclinations, without an ability to deliver on his economic promises and an escape route from the tariff chaos, Trump’s problems will deepen.
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Behind Trump’s spiralling tariff war: An interview with Marxist economist Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, how they fit into his broader project to reassert US global hegemony, and what a left response could look like.   
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The state of Africa in the new world (dis)order

Will Shoki — Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order.
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Trump, fascism and the authoritarian turn

DK Renton — Rather than concentrating on applying the (at times, misleading) label of fascist to Trump, the important thing is to learn the lessons from historical antifascist movements to formulate a robust counterpolitics to the Trumpian agenda.
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For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right

Thomas Hummel — The rise of the global far right defines our historical moment. Revolutionary socialists must revive the strategy of the united front to challenge this new authoritarianism.
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Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc, Portugal): Europe in the Trump-Putin axis trap

Bloco de Esquerda — There are several imperialisms in the global system. But none of them will play a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites.
US President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Source: AAP

This changes everything: The threat of Trumpism for South Africa

Amandla! Collective — The second coming of Trump has started to reconfigure the international political architecture that emerged after World War II. This has profound implications for countries both in the global North and South.