Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Today, the liberal mask has finally fallen from the Atlanticist ideology through the solidarity and collusion manifested by its leaders with an Israeli state ruled by neo-fascist and neo-Nazi factions of Zionism – a state that is committing in the Gaza Strip the most heinous deliberate genocidal (…)
, by PASTOR Jaime, ROUSSET Pierre
Jaime Pastor - It seems clear that we are in the context of a multidimensional world crisis, one of the characteristics of which is relative geopolitical chaos, in which we are witnessing a multiplication of wars and a worsening of inter-imperialist conflicts. How would you define this phase? (…)
, by YAMANAKA Karen
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 (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, ROBERTS Michael
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 (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
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 (…)
, par DOVER Robert M.
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 million (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, LI Promise
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 (…)
, by YANG Maya
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 (…)
, par HORE Charlie
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 to (…)
, by SMITH Ashley
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 (…)
, by SMITH Ashley
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 (…)
, by MAHNKOPF Birgit
Walden Bellow assumes that today it is necessary for the left to “buy back”, as he puts it, “deglobalisation as a liberating paradigm for today´s world”. In his view this could promote what he calls “effective economies”. This he assumes, would strengthen solidarity within the single countries (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
A Chinese surveillance balloon floating across the United States from Alaska to South Carolina last week became the symbol of the increasing inter-imperialist rivalry between the United States and China. The U.S. military shot down the balloon, over the Atlantic Ocean, leading the Chinese (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
Extreme weather events in 2022 once again underlined that the planet is in an age of climate breakdown. Record-breaking heat waves in Pakistan, India, China and Europe were followed by extreme drought conditions in Europe, the United States, Kenya and China’s Yangtze basin. Following intense (…)
, by BRAMBLE Tom
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has accelerated a series of underlying trends in world politics that are leading us into a dangerous new world order. This new order is not arriving already formed, and there will be interruptions and reverses along the way, but four key features are coming into (…)
If accepted, the new proposed BRICS members would create an entity with a GDP 30% larger than the United States, over 50% of the global population and in control of 60% of global gas reserves.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov has stated that ‘over a dozen’ countries have formally (…)
, by LYNCH Lily
‘The fantasy of an instinctively peaceful world may be comforting, but it is again coming to an end’, Alex Karp, CEO of Peter Thiel’s CIA-funded Palantir, wrote in an ominous open letter to European leaders a few weeks after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A co-founder of the company – and (…)
, by ROUSSET Pierre
From Ukraine to Taiwan, Eurasia has once again become the epicentre of a major confrontation between great powers (the United States, China and Russia). To analyse this, we must free ourselves from the mental software inherited from the Cold War, think anew, and take full account of the (…)
, by HIOE Brian, LIU Wen
Geopolitical realignment and anticolonial solidarity in a time of war
WAR: A FAMILIAR COLONIAL NARRATIVE
While Ukraine and the geopolitics of Eastern Europe were far away from Taiwanese consciousness prior to Russia’s invasion, the war has since galvanized a vibrant discussion on imperial (…)
, by CHENOY Anuradha M
The Russian illegal war in Ukraine has accelerated a shift in the world order forcing a renewed balance of power. Countries and analysts are calculating the implications of re-balancing and positioning for significant changes. Ukraine is ravaged; Russia is the aggressor and will suffer long (…)
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