United States
Feeling the heat: Capitalism and global warming
Marty Hart-Landsberg — Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.
What comes next for the Palestinian Youth Movement: Interview with Mohammed Nabulsi
Mohammed Nabulsi — Our strategy of mobilization seeks to create crisis for the US ruling class and raise the political, social, and economic costs for their participation in this genocide.
Clifton D’Rozario discusses Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role as a global far right leader and the impact of US-China tensions on South Asian politics and struggles.
Paul Le Blanc: What would Lenin do today?
Paul Le Blanc asks: is it possible for us to make use of Lenin’s ideas 100 years after his death, and if so — how?
The beginning of the end of China’s rise? An interview with Au Loong-Yu
Au Loong-Yu discusses the factors that fueled China’s phenomenal economic rise, how they have begun to exhaust themselves, and the significance of the White Paper movement, which he argues heralds a new period in Chinese politics.
Ashley Smith analyzes the impact of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on the deepening political crisis in the US and the ever growing weakness of the Joe Biden campaign.
Danaletchumi Langaswaran — There are prospects for building solidarity, but left and people’s groups in the region must work together for it.
The United States and Israel: What’s behind the ongoing conflict between Biden and Netanyahu?
Gilbert Achcar — With the reoccupation of the Gaza Strip completed and the question of its political fate coming to the fore, the Zionist consensus represented by Netanyahu’s war cabinet has ended.
US student socialists assess ‘explosive’ Gaza solidarity encampment movement
Cyn Huang, Daniil Sapunkov and Amey discuss how the Palestine student movement plans to progress over the summer break and its impact on labour struggles, the left and the 2024 presidential elections.
Trumpism, fascism, and political realities in the United States
Paul Le Blanc — Donald Trump represents a kind of politics that has powerfully transformed political realities in the United States, a kind of politics labeled by some as Trumpism.
Gilbert Achcar: Truce in Gaza and the dilemmas faced by Netanyahu and Hamas
Gilbert Achcar — News related to the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip have been overshadowed by the truce project that Biden attributed to “Israel” without specifying which Israeli governing body had approved it.
A generational challenge: Taming Amazon, renewing labour
Sam Gindin — The Amazon organizing model poses three tests for labour and the left.