United States

Jaime Pastor — An increasingly authoritarian neoliberalism is spreading, not only in the South but increasingly in the North, with the threat of a “reactionary acceleration”.

Rasti Delizo — A fresh inter-imperialist conflict is mounting in the form of a ‘Maritime Great Game’, and it is swiftly accelerating across the Southeast Asian Sea.

Boris Kagarlitsky — The election results show that the mere threat of a reactionary turn was not enough. Liberals are now doomed to reap the fruits of their catastrophic policies, the dire consequences of which will affect not only the United States but the entire world.

Justin Akers Chacón — The defeat of the Democrats is not a reflection of hard right political shifts in the working class but a rejection of that party’s hard right shifts amid a deepening confluence of overarching crises.

CPI(ML) Liberation — The forces of democracy and social, economic and climate justice in both the US and India have major lessons to learn from the Democratic debacle and Trump triumph.

Gilbert Achcar — Netanyahu had been eagerly hoping for this victory and did everything he could to contribute to its achievement. So, what awaits us now that Trump’s return to the White House is confirmed?

Solidarity — Even as we prepare to join the resistance to the coming onslaught, the socialist left needs to come to terms with the rightward political trends within much of the working class.

Kevin B. Anderson — The second election of Donald Trump to the US presidency and of the Trumpist Republican Party on November 5 represents nothing less than a new era of fascism.

From a Russian penal colony, Boris Kagarlitsky responses to questions about the US elections, its potential impacts on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and prospects for a new world war.

Jorge Lefevre Tavárez and Manuel Rodríguez Banchs discuss why socialists and progressives are poised to make big gains in Puerto Rico’s election.

Bryan Palmer — Stopping fascism that some see coming to America is indeed both necessary and laudatory. But to do that we need to know what fascism is and what it is not.

Malfred Gerig situates the impact of United States’ sanctions on Venezuela and the rise of Venezuela’s crony capitalism within the context of the nation’s “Long Depression”.