At the end of 2025, corporate profits in the major economies accelerated after stagnating in 2024. The global figure below is calculated from a weighted (by GDP) average of profits in the US, UK, Japan, Germany and China (taken from national accounts and in national currencies).
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Economy
Global profits: an upward turn?
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Feminism
Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
9 June, by“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”
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India
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism - A Balance Sheet
9 June, byThe 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all-India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India’s TV channels and much of the print media owned by a small number of houses all aligned with dominant capitalist groups that support the Modi government, the predictions had been for a massive BJP and NDA sweep. Some Exit Polls even gave them close to 400 seats in the 543 member parliament. In reality the BJP won 240 seats, less than a majority, and even with all its allies it had just 293 seats. It was evident that the fascist chariot was slowing down.
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Russia
War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
8 June, by ,Vladimir Putin’s regime is beginning to show signs of frailty amidst its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Kyiv has fought the regime to a standoff, Russia’s casualties mount to about 1.2 million dead and wounded, and Russia’s economy, despite the temporary sugar rush of increased oil prices, faces mounting problems. Here Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
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Colonialism in Africa
Anticolonial fraud: The Kremlin in Africa
8 June, byThe Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions.
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Britain
The 1926 General Strike in Britain
8 June, by ,This 1976 pamphlet first appeared as a series of articles in the Workers News, a fortnightly journal of socialist news and analysis.
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Ukraine
The political economy of Ukraine’s war and the politics of a coming bad peace
29 May, byWhat Moscow expected to be a war of weeks is now into its fifth year. Ukrainian railway workers, miners and energy crews keep the country running under Russian bombardment while Ukraine’s oligarchic state will not ask the rich to pay for defence. This article documents the price the Ukrainian working class is paying, the feminised volunteer infrastructure carrying what the state will not, the mass anti-corruption mobilisations, and the stakes of a reconstruction now being designed in donor conferences.
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Palestine
The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine
29 May, by“Feminism is not a Western invention: authenticity versus tradition, imported feminisms versus local feminisms.”
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Feminism
What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?
29 May, byFeminism is pluralistic, with significant political and ideological differences, sometimes even antagonistic ones. Therefore, in this text I will always refer to the feminism that, with a global perspective, addresses the full range of conflicts generated by the system, which it considers its responsibility, and which expresses its desire to change everything through struggles that look toward an emancipatory horizon for everyone.
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Bangladesh
Code of Conduct against abuses: Two-Day Safeguarding Training Held by Bangladesh Krishok Federation
29 May, by“An important outcome of the two-day training was the drafting of a preliminary Safeguarding Policy and a Code of Conduct for the Bangladesh Krishok Federation. The main objective of this policy is to ensure safety, dignity, and non-discriminatory behavior in the organization’s work with staff members, activists, volunteers, women, children, and marginalized communities.”
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