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On the Russian rejection of Trump’s ceasefire proposal. But Russian officials appear to be sending other messages that the Western press is ignoring.
The text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen’s College, New York, USA in 1975. The author talks of the relevance of Marxism to Africa.
NAPM marked three decades of struggle, solidarity, and transformative resistance at its 30th Anniversary National Convention held in Hyderabad from March 1–4, 2025, with the theme “Defending Democracy: Constitutional Justice to Climate Justice.”
The most recent Forbes listing of the richest Americans points to a concentration of wealth never seen in US history. But it’s not just oligarchy that we should be concerned about; it is also that we are looking at a rapid movement, under President Trump, towards authoritarianism.
When individuals are forced into relentless competition for survival, they lose any sense of shared responsibility, making them more susceptible to the cruelty that defines contemporary politics.
While Trump is operating an overtly barbarous campaign against immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people, and other groups, the continued use of Guantánamo demonstrates that this is much bigger than just one president: the United States is a carceral-imperial state.
Trump’s proposals express the harsh reality that U.S. imperialism is experiencing an inexorable decline. Also: While Trump is making a big show of its power and executing a shock-and-awe blitzkrieg-style assault on working people and democracy with a flood of executive orders, Trump’s government is not as invincible as it might seem.
Trump’s tariff plan exposes the perils of Canada’s dependency on the US and the price of integration within the American Empire. Adam King discusses these issues with Sam Gindin.
In early December 2024, hopes for a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution were dashed as negotiations in South Korea stalled. Leading the campaign against the deal were major oil-producing nations, especially Saudi Arabia and Russia, who argued for a more flexible approach to any legally binding limits on plastic manufacturing.
The entire Romanian political scene remains committed to a ‘minimal state’, whose main role is to transfer wealth from working people to businesses and the security services. As long as this is the case, popular frustration will continue to simmer …
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