Imperialism today

Drawing on more than a century of Marxist thought from Lenin to David Harvey, Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev reveal the specificity of Russian imperialism, as well as its global implications.

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’.

Álvaro García Linera — US invasions and bombings are not going to disappear, but they will become shorter in duration, devastating in their technical effectiveness, and without prolonged military occupations.

Valério Arcary — The Left is divided by two dominant and erroneous understandings regarding the meaning of the current world order.

Despite the chaos, confusion and faction fights, the Trump administration is united behind one project — escalating imperial rivalry with China — argues Ashley Smith.