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On October 7, the Palestinian Islamic organization Hamas launched a major attack on Israel with rockets and other weapons. In response, Israel also began to retaliate. The previous month, on 19 September Azerbaijan launched an “anti-terrorist operation” against Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed (...)
Michael Roberts is a political activist and economist who worked in the City of London where he closely observed the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den. He is also the author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism and Capitalism in the (...)
On 13 September, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un met at the Russian launch base at the Vostotchny cosmodrome in the Far East’s Amur region.
The rumour of this meeting spread late, without being confirmed before Kim Jong-un secretly crossed the border in his armoured train. The content of the (...)
Both North Korea and Russia are highly equipped cyber nations, this deal has the potential for them to share technology.
Russia is currently firing some 14 million shells a year in Ukraine. They are only manufacturing 2 million. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, are firing around 2.5 (...)
Promise Li is a socialist from Hong Kong currently based in Los Angeles, and a member of US socialist organisations Tempest and Solidarity. He is active in international solidarity with movements from Hong Kong and China, tenant and anti-gentrification organising in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, and (...)
Contrary to popular belief, the war in Ukraine has not led to a global shortage of wheat. While global hunger has surged in recent years, the way to address the current food crisis is by focusing on its real causes: financial speculation and corporate profiteering.
NEW DELHI – In recent (...)
A recent expose in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the Tricontinental Institute, Code Pink, and the People’s Forum in New York City, has led to a petition on the Tricontinental Institute (...)
Combined naval patrol appeared to be largest such flotilla to approach US territory and ‘highly provocative’, expert says
The US dispatched four navy warships as well as a reconnaissance airplane after multiple Chinese and Russian military vessels carried out a joint naval patrol near Alaska (...)
The New Cold War:
The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine
by Gilbert Achcar
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023, 350 pages, $22.95 paperback.
IN THE NEW Cold War, Gilbert Achcar describes how the United States abused its “unipolar moment” after the collapse of the Soviet (...)
According to Japanese Marxist writer and academic Kohei Saito, the keynote speaker at the Ecosocialism Conference 2023 in Naarm/Melbourne over July 1-2, there are five important reasons why we need to move beyond capitalism to deal with the ecological and social crises besetting the world (...)
CADTM : Are we witnessing a crisis
This is a major crisis of the globalized capitalist system, the worst crisis since those of the years 1914-1945
Éric Toussaint : Yes. All the warning lights are flashing: there is a very significant economic slowdown (stagnation in the Eurozone in the (...)
Charlie Hore critically engages with Gilbert Achcar’s latest book on China, Russia and the US.
Gilbert Achcar. The New Cold War : The US, Russia and China from Kosovo to Ukraine. Westbourne Press, 2023. 368 pp, £16.99.
Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it had become commonplace (...)
The daily news is filled with stories about the spiraling conflict between the U.S. and China over everything from trade to geopolitical squabbles and dueling military exercises. All of these converge over Taiwan — a small nation claimed by China as a renegade province, backed by the U.S., and (...)
THE CONVERGING CATASTROPHES of global capitalism have landed on multiple communities, peoples and nations — but nowhere harder than on displaced populations, refugees and asylum seekers. There are by now an estimated 100 million people globally who have fled their homelands or become (...)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fed calls for the West to radically step up its own military spending. An arms race only increases the risk of a conflict between China and the US — a global disaster that we must do everything in our power to prevent.
With Vladimir Putin’s disastrous (...)
Stock markets are jumping back up today. It seems that financial investors think the monetary authorities and banking supervisors have got the banking crisis under control. That could be wishful thinking.
The banking crisis of 2023 is not over yet. The Californian ‘tech’ bank Silicon (...)
The banking industry has been beset by a series of failures, government bailouts, and takeovers. The crisis in these banks has sent stock markets around the world into gyrations. What caused all of this? Is this a passing crisis? What impact will it have on the real economy? Spectre’s Ashley (...)
Since Sunday, 19 March 2023, it has been clear that the ailing Swiss bank Credit Suisse will be taken over by its competitor UBS. However, this new monster colossus has only come about because once again the Swiss state is stepping into the breach and thus the wage earners are being obliged by (...)
As these two states fight for dominion over global capitalism, it’s time to unite for collective liberation.
The rivalry between the U.S. and China has hit fever pitch. Whatever rapprochement seemed in the offing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled summit with Xi Jinping in (...)
New research shows that companies are shifting record amounts of their profits to tax havens, despite a global effort to crack down on the practice.
About a decade ago, the world’s biggest economies agreed to crack down on multinational corporations’ abusive use of tax havens. This resulted (...)
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