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For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front

Farooq Tariq — 2026-08-04T09:54:27Z

Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.

- Features / Pakistan, Anti-imperialism

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

Fourth of July at 250: The On-Going Struggle for Equality, Democracy, and Justice

Dan La Botz — 2026-07-20T10:29:46Z

“On July 4, our 250th birthday as a nation, we should celebrate the underdogs, the dissidents, the rebellious who fought and continue to fight against exploitation and oppression, and stand for equality, democracy, and justice.”

- Features / United States (USA), Historical events and figures

“Against Trump we have to defend our neighbors, defend our democratic rights and our labor rights”

Antoine Larrache, Janette Zahia Corcelius, Penelope Duggan, Raphaël Alberto — 2026-07-16T09:43:03Z

Janette Zahia Corcelius, a trade-union organizer from Minneapolis, visited Paris on two occasions this spring. First, in April, as member of a delegation speaking in a tour organized by on the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign. Then in early June to speak at an anti-fascist festival. On her first visit she spoke to Raphaël Alberto for the l'Anticapitaliste you tube channel (published in French « Face à Trump, nous devons protéger nos voisinEs, défendre nos droits démocratiques et (…)

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

UAW: Mixed Reform Results

Dianne Feeley — 2026-07-13T10:08:08Z

THIS SPRING DELEGATES were elected to the United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention that will be held in mid-June. As the UAW website notes, the convention will “make critical decisions, including constitutional amendments and resolutions on workplace and social issues.”

- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

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