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Bangladesh: The ‘Global South’ debt crisis intensifies

Michael Roberts — The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh is a startling outcome of the economic nightmare that many so-called developing economies are experiencing.
From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.
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US politics today: Chaos, conflict and a creeping constitutional crisis

Ashley Smith — The greater evil is obviously Trump and the far-right GOP. Harris and the Democratic Party are lesser evils by comparison. But that does not exonerate them of being evil.

Susan Price (Socialist Alliance, Australia): Capitalism is incompatible with preventing catastrophic climate change

Susan Price — To say “Capitalism kills” is not hyperbole. Capitalism is simply incompatible with life on Earth.
Gaza life

William I Robinson: The global meaning of Gaza

William I Robinson — The genocide in Gaza and the repression of Palestine solidarity around the world tell a larger story of global capitalist crisis.
Serbian soldiers

Lenin on Serbia’s role in World War I: A useful analogy for the current Ukraine war?

Michael Pröbsting looks at Lenin’s actual position on the defence of Serbia in World War I and why it is wrong to apply it to the Ukraine War today.
antifascist conference porto alegre

The 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place in Porto Alegre in 2025

Following its cancellation due to the floods in Porto Alegre in May 2024, the 1st International Antifascist Conference will take place next year in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
MCC CPIML Liberation

India: Marxist Coordination Committee merges with CPI(ML) Liberation

CPI(ML) Liberation — The unification of Jharkhand’s two leading Left forces, CPI(ML) Liberation and Marxist Coordination Committee, was announced on 10 August.
London, 30 March 2022, on the rally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world: Interview with Kevin B Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson discusses Marx and Lenin’s writings on imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar and the need for consistent anti-imperialism.
2023 BRICS Summit — alternative to imperialism or an expression of the southern transactional capitalist class?

Multi-polarity: A new alignment?

Jerry Harris — Some see multi-polarity as a new stage of non-alignment, and even the creation of an anti-imperialist bloc. But the economic and political elites of the Global South are too deeply tied to transnational capitalism to be truly independent.
Uzbekistan protest

Today’s Uzbekistan and the left: An interview with three Uzbek Comrades

LeftEast interviews three people from Uzbekistan’s leftist circles about the state of the country’s political economy under Mirziyoyev, the role of Soviet nostalgia, the conditions and potential for the fledgling Uzbek left.
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Capitalism, imperialism and global displacement

Justin Akers Chacón — The crisis churning out rising displacement is located in the failings of the capitalist system internationally, both in its economic functions and political operations.