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• Palestine

  Massacres and starvation in a criminal silence

  4 July, by Édouard Soulier

  The situation in Gaza is terrible, with massacres during the distribution of food aid, starvation imposed by Israel and the systematic destruction of the region. Impunity remains total, and those who speak out against this genocide are silenced.

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• China

  The social cost of China’s resistance to Trump’s tariff war

  3 July, by An Dexin, Au Loong-Yu

  Trump’s tariffs bullied the whole world. Both Canada and China reacted strongly against them, most countries did not. This garnered a lot of international support for Beijing,. A global poll conducted by Morning Consult showed that in January last year, the U.S. in various countries scored more than 20 points while China scored negatively. However, by the end of May this year, after Trump’s “Liberation Day”, the perceptions reversed, with the U.S. at -1.5 and China at +8.8. Many see this as a reflection of people’s sympathy with China’s resistance to Trump. This comes with a heavy price, however. China’s exports have already slowed down since early 2025, and in May it plunged 34.5% year-on-year.

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• Serbia

  Serbia: controlled, decentralized chaos across the country, but power is waning

  2 July, by Tara Mirković

  Since Sunday night, a veritable game of cat and mouse has been played out on the streets of Belgrade between citizens and the police. The principle is simple and highly effective: erect improvised barricades, block a street or intersection, wait for the police to arrive, then disperse peacefully before starting again further on. In this ballet of non-violent resistance, each withdrawal is a new opening. While the police dismantle the roadblocks, sometimes violently, others form elsewhere. And this elusive movement is spreading throughout the country.

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• Argentina

  Mobilisations in Argentina: Brief considerations on the current political turmoil

  1 July, by Eduardo Lucita

  “Everything is moving toward the eventual establishment of a new political regime in the country. Massive and sustained popular mobilisation is what can put a stop to this reactionary process, but this must not sideline the national midterm elections next October, which are also a decisive arena for struggle.”

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• Madagascar

  Draft laws play hide-and-seek in Madagascar

  30 June, by Paul Martial

  In Madagascar, parliamentary bills are kept secret until they are passed. Neither citizens nor MPs can debate texts that are sometimes crucial to the life of the country. In the face of this authoritarian closure, civil society organizations are denouncing an anti-democratic drift orchestrated by Rajoelina’s government.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  Can Democratic Socialist Mamdani become Mayor of New York?

• Africa

  Overfishing is plundering waters in Africa

• Denmark

  Enhedslisten: Support for more defence - but which defence?

• Mexico

  A mixed success for the President in Mexico

• USA

  State of the Resistance

Recently posted Features

• Ernest Mandel’s legacy

  The work of Ernest Mandel, a significant legacy for revolutionary combat in the 21st century

  20 July 2020, by Manuel Kellner

  Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), who died a quarter of a century ago, has left us a significant theoretical legacy. It is unavoidable for anyone who wishes to make a balance sheet of the 20th century and contribute to the elaboration of revolutionary perspectives for the 21st century.

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• Ernest Mandel and Economy

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  20 July 2020, by Michel Husson

  A quarter of a century after the death of Ernest Mandel, this article is not intended as a tribute. In the spirit of living Marxism that he embodied, we will limit ourselves rather to showing how his economic writings are still relevant, while sketching the questions, old or new, that they suggest.

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• Ernest Mandel’s ideas on ecology

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  20 July 2020, by Michael Löwy

  Concern for the environment appeared strongly in Mandel’s writings only from the 1970s. It hardly appears, for example, in Marxist Economic Theory (1962). It is true that we already find, in this “inaugural” work, the idea of “stopping growth” under socialism: “When society has a supply of automatic machines large enough to cover all its current needs (…) it is likely that “economic growth” will be slowed down or even temporarily halted. Man, completely free from all material and economic concerns will be born".

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• On the nature of the state

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  19 July 2020, by Ernest Mandel

  In recent years, discussion on the definition and explanation of the class nature of the bourgeois state has expanded considerably. Although still mainly conducted in the GDR, France, Great Britain and Italy, the ‘Stamocap’III theory and debates on the class nature of the ‘national democratic state’ (in some former colonies in Africa and AsiaIV) make it a debate that is truly global. We do not want to talk here so much about the specific content of the most important works on this subject that have appeared so far. Rather, our intention is to raise some general problems related to the application of the historical-materialist method to the problem of the class nature of the bourgeois state. Directly or indirectly such problems play an important role in this discussion. [1]

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