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Can China challenge the US empire?

Sean Kenji Starrs — It is important to look beyond the headlines at structural power, namely security, finance, production and knowledge, to get a more accurate view of China’s potential and limitations as a global power.
Trump's peace plan = occupation

Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament

Anti*Capitalist Resistance — We reject imperialist rearmament and instead argue for a new internationalism of the people.
A forest of oil derricks at the Signal Hill oilfield in southern California, 1937.

‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism

Adam Hanieh — We cannot understand the Gaza genocide today, or the crucial place of the Middle East in US geopolitical ambitions, without centering the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism.
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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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The UnitedHealth Insurance CEO killing and contested violence in a capitalist society

Vince Montes asks: Why are many people looking past the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and focusing more on Luigi Mangione as a kind of hero?
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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.
King Trump

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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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.
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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.