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After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration

Diogo Machado and Alexandre Abreu — 2026-08-01T15:42:27Z

Crises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.

- Features / Economy, Features, Imperialism

An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism

Éric Toussaint, Ernest Mandel — 2026-08-01T14:43:25Z

We are reprinting an important text that Ernest Mandel wrote in late 1963 to contribute to the public debate that had begun in Cuba a few months earlier. The main participants in the debate were, on the one hand, Ernesto Che Guevara (Minister of Industry) and Luis Álvarez Rom (Minister of Finance) and, on the other, Alberto Mora (Minister of Foreign Trade) and Marcelo Fernández Font (President of the National Bank of Cuba).
At the Cubans' request, two foreign Marxist economists joined the (…)

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Economy, Ernest Mandel, Features

Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique

Amir Kianpour, Morteza Samanpour — 2026-08-01T10:13:31Z

Contemporary capitalism is shifting into a war conjuncture: as the world market fractures, rivalries among geo-economic powers intensify, often to the point of outright military confrontation, while militarization spills beyond the battlefield into political governance and everyday life. In this context, the historical necessity of renewing an internationalism becomes ever clearer, especially as local conditions are increasingly mediated by globalized processes and absorbed into the vortex of the global war regime.

- Features / Features, Anti-imperialism

Feminist strike for the socialisation of reproductive labour!

Anouk Essayad — 2026-07-27T11:25:25Z

All over the world, austerity programmes are following one after another, amounting to a privatization of the sphere of social reproduction. This neoliberal phase of capitalism raises strategic questions for the feminist movement.

- Feminism / Women, Public services , Features, Switzerland

The imperialism of our time

Benjamin Bürbaumer — 2026-07-27T11:06:52Z

The discussion continues on the nature of imperialisms and their functions in international relations. Interview with Benjamin Bürbaumer, economist specialist in globalisation and international political economy, by Juan Tortosa.

- Features / Economy, Features, Imperialism

Lenin and the Politics of Broken Time

Daniel Bensaïd — 2026-07-13T09:45:02Z

This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed.

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Daniel Bensaid, Features

Global profits: an upward turn?

Michael Roberts — 2026-06-17T14:25:13Z

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).

- Features / Economy, Features

Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide

Caterina Peroni — 2026-06-09T13:19:13Z

“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. ”

- Feminism / Italy, Women, Features

The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine

Leila Serra Badran — 2026-05-29T13:26:05Z

“Feminism is not a Western invention: authenticity versus tradition, imported feminisms versus local feminisms.”

- Feminism / Palestine, Women, Features

What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?

Justa Montero — 2026-05-29T13:25:50Z

Feminism 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.
What is emancipatory about feminism, what hopes can it (…)

- Feminism / Women, Features