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The US strategy, a threat to the peoples of the world

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2025-12-16T11:25:19Z

Openly supremacist, colonialist and racist-xenophobic, Trump's national security strategy includes new or reformulated threats. It is old-style imperialism , adapted to deal with the current challenges to US hegemonic power.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), World

Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of “reactionary acceleration”

Jaime Pastor — 2024-11-20T20:20:18Z

Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (which calls into question even the future of the UN) is found in the genocidal war against Gaza (Awad, 2024), to which are currently added around 56 wars across the planet.

- Features / Palestine, World, Ukraine, Imperialism

Global crisis, conflict and war: what internationalism for the 21st century?

Jaime Pastor , Pierre Rousset — 2024-04-19T20:08:31Z

“Faced with the militarisation of the world, we need a global anti-war movement. It's easy to say, but hard to do. Can we rely on local cross-border solidarity (Ukraine-Russia, India-Pakistan) to achieve this? Or on the huge solidarity movement with Palestine? Or social forums like the one that has just taken place in Nepal?”

- Rearming Europe / World, Ecology and the Environment, War drive/Anti-war movements

Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South

Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba , Patrick Bond — 2021-04-22T18:47:02Z

“As seen above, multinational corporations from BRICS countries, as well as projects financed by BRICS institutions, are reinforcing accumulation patterns that are socially and environmentally predatory, destroying the forms of life and work of populations in their territories. In order to overcome this predicament, South-South relations must be built with profound respect for counter-hegemonic social forces in these countries, as well as at the global scale.”

- Features / United States (USA), World, Economy

A convergence of crises, dominated by the covid-19 pandemic

Fourth International Bureau — 2020-10-21T05:10:39Z

“On this path, in the struggles, in the resistance against destructive capitalism, for democracy and for an alternative and sustainable economic policy, lies the possibility to change the national power relations that are unfavourable today, and to make more concrete an ecosocialist alternative for humanity.”

- IV549 - October 2020 / World, Fourth International, Covid-19 Pandemic

Hope in the Streets, continued

Against the Current Editors — 2020-01-02T05:48:07Z

The Editors of Against the Current assess the state of the world.

- IV540 - January 2020 / World

Climate: the solution lies in struggle, not COPs!

Daniel Tanuro — 2019-12-19T07:50:38Z

The resounding failure of the Madrid Climate Conference casts a harsh light on the capitalist system's inability to ward off the climate threat. Solutions will not emerge from COPs but from social mobilisation, peoples' struggles against exploitation and oppression.

- IV539 - December 2019 / World, Climate

The World Up in Arms Against Austerity and Authoritarianism

Dan La Botz — 2019-11-22T09:28:29Z

Much of the world at this moment is a laboratory searching for the cure for capitalism, and the social scientists running the experiments are in the streets.

- IV538 - November 2019 / World, Protest movements

Let's win back our future: change the system not the climate

Fourth International Bureau — 2019-09-26T19:37:26Z

The week of mobilization that began on Friday, 20 September is of an historic scale: already more than five thousand events in 156 countries, four million demonstrators. Hundreds of thousands of young people have been coming out of their schools and universities on climate strike for months and are massively present this week, largely responding to the call by Greta Thunberg. There is a new generation rising on all continents to avert the ongoing climate catastrophe.

- IV536 - September 2019 / World, Fourth International, Climate

Hope Is in the Streets

Against the Current Editors — 2019-08-31T18:28:12Z

HONG KONG, SUDAN, ALGERIA, Puerto Rico â€” and more. These are part of a wave of democratic mobilizations challenging repressive, authoritarian systems. In a world that seems dominated by vicious reaction, these are signs of hope for a better future, even though in most cases the struggles' outcomes remain unclear, the political leadership vague at best, the internal contradictions often complex.

- iV535 - August 2019 / World