China’s rapid rise as a new center of capital accumulation has increasingly brought it into conflict with the United States. The ISR’s Ashley Smith interviewed activist and scholar Au Loong Yu about the nature of China’s emergence as a new imperial power and what it means for the world system.
After the European elections
9 June 2019, byEven if the European Union has managed to contain the banking crisis for the moment and maintains an annual growth rate of 2%, this has been achieved at the cost of maintaining a high overall debt level of 86%, which serves as a basis for structural adjustment plans in several countries. These policies which attack social protection systems and labour regulations have further widened the gap in wages and living conditions across the Union for the working classes. Many countries in the South and East of the EU have seen a real exodus of their youth over the past 10 years.
The Left Needs a Vision for Europe
8 June 2019, byThe fight to define Europe’s future is polarizing between the far right and the liberal center. But the Left can’t win by taking sides in a culture war: it needs its own project to challenge the neoliberal consensus in Brussels.
“The top military hierarchy is part of the ruling oligarchy”
7 June 2019, byMahmoud Rechidi is the general secretary of the Parti socialiste des travailleurs (PST – Socialist Workers’ Party). He was interviewed on April 18, 2019 by Mohand Aziri and this interview was first published on May 4, 2019 [in the daily newspaper El Watan.
“The West prefers a regime subject to its interests”
5 June 2019, byHocine Belalloufi is a journalist and a member of the Parti socialiste des travailleurs (PST – Socialist Workers’ Party, Algerian section of the Fourth International). This interview with fellow journalist Kamel Lakhdar-Chaouche was published in the Algerian daily newspaper l’Expression on April 17, 2019.
Sudanese military launch attack against the Khartoum sit-in, many dead and injured
4 June 2019, bySudanese military and militia forces are attacking the sit-in outside the Army Command in Khartoum, where thousands of protesters have gathered since 6 April to demand a peaceful transition to civilian rule, the Sudanese Professionals Association said in a statement this morning, killing and injuring many and setting tents on fire.
Political rupture or revolution as a project- notes and reflections on the protest movement
3 June 2019, byOn its 13th Friday of mobilization, the popular movement that Algeria has been witnessing since February 22, 2019 confirmed its serene and peaceful demand for a fundamental and radical change in the system of political governance. This demand is accompanied by questions of a theoretical and methodological order, until now forgotten and repressed by the Algerian political and intellectual universe. These questions range from legal processes to economic mechanisms, from sociological logic to historical dynamics, which affect the past and the future of the country. These are questions that do not have a mere academic value. They structure thought but also political practice.
Sudan at the Crossroads
2 June 2019, byThe great Sudanese revolution has arrived at the crossroads reached by every revolution in the modern era. Are the masses simply removing the head of the regime, or tearing it up by its roots?