United States

Chris Slee — Economic statistics are not the sole basis for deciding if a country is imperialist. We also have to look at factors such as military strength and military interventions abroad.

Ilya Matveev discusses the two logics of imperialism, how they help us explain the different paths that China and Russia took to become imperialist powers, and the left's need for a shared vision of progressive change.

Eric Toussaint — Claudio Katz's new book, Latin America at the Global Crossroads, concentrates on the continent’s relations with China and with US imperialism.

Israel Dutra — Israel’s recent attacks on neighbouring Lebanon represents a new stage in Zionist aggression across the region.

Gilbert Achcar — On intimidation, terrorism, asymmetric war, deterrence, counter-deterrence, and the Dahiya doctrine in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Lebanon.

Gilbert Achcar provides an overview of the complex political situation in the Middle East, situating it within the context of the political project of the global far right.

Blanca Missé — Many activists recognize movements face the same decadent global capitalism and its imperialist state system. However, international and regional politics shape these struggles, making it hard for them to unite against their common enemy.

Gilbert Achcar — In recent days, Israeli threats regarding an imminent attack on Lebanon have multiplied.

brian bean, Kristen Godfrey, and Natalia Tylim take up the question of the 2024 elections as a strategic issue for the organized socialist left and not simply as a question about how an individual may choose to vote in an increasingly undemocratic election

Max Elbaum — The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine. This achievement opens the path to forcing a change in US policy and to putting internationalism at the center of the progressive movement’s agenda.

Renfrey Clarke — In the view of Marxists, the rift that divides the world is a direct result of imperialism, whose core is always material and economic.

Rashid Khalidi and Tariq Ali discuss the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught entanglement with Arab regimes, Israel’s grip on the Biden administration and the strategic calculations of Hamas.