Imperialism today

Joseph Daher argues for an anti-imperialism rooted not in states or geopolitical blocs, but in workers, popular movements, democratic freedoms and resistance from below.

Replying to Alex Callinicos, Simon Pirani looks at what the Ukraine war tells us about imperialism today and the need to incorporate class struggle and other forms of social change into our analysis.

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.