United States

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.

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.

G7 must suspend Ukraine’s debt repayments
Eric Toussaint — For more than a year, the leaders of the main powers allied against Russia have been unable to reach agreement on how to finance the war and reconstruction of Ukraine.