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March 2026 editorial by Foster for Monthly Review: To make sense of present developments, it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
As the United States and Israel launch a new large-scale military aggression against Iran and Lebanon, while continuing the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people and the annexation of the West Bank, it is important to analyze, from a historical perspective, the policy of the United States in the Americas.
Killing, wounding, threatening, or investigating observers are just some of the many abuses and violent tactics of immigration officers in the era of Donald Trump.
In this interview, Chris Gilbert offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation in Venezuela within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region. He also discusses the Venezuelan communes in this context.
Rachel Reeves, Britain’s finance minister, recently claimed to have brought stability back and stopped austerity, but the figures tell a story of stagnation and unrelenting austerity.
The International Labour Organisation’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world’s workers.
Sudan’s war is not an anomaly but a concentrated expression of a global system that depends on unequal exchange, violent extraction, and moral distance. Armed violence, mass displacement, famine, and systemic exploitation are sustained not only by domestic actors but by regional and international powers that profit from instability.
“I look around at what’s happening in our country and worry that we may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed”, writes the author.
There are, in effect, two Africas. One is the version that dominates global headlines: a continent defined by poverty, disease, and conflict. The other is the Africa I came to know firsthand—a dynamic, hardworking society of men and women striving for a better future.
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