The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.

Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun, writes Steve Ellner.

Tony Wood reminds us that one nation’s left cannot insist they have the answers for every other nation. Understanding different frames that arise out of local conditions can help us achieve the unity sorely needs.

Sweden goes to the polls on 13 September. Duroyan Fertl looks at the prospects for the left bloc.

There are signs the AI threat is helping to grow a resistance which could dramatically transform the political landscape, writes Martin Hart-Landsberg.

Michael Roberts breaks down the rise in global corporate profits that has accompanied the recent AI boom.

Joseph Daher argues for an anti-imperialism rooted not in states or geopolitical blocs, but in workers, popular movements, democratic freedoms and resistance from below.

Oleg Shein discusses the social crisis that has engulfed the country in the fifth year of the war.

Replying to Alex Callinicos, Simon Pirani looks at what the Ukraine war tells us about imperialism today and the need to incorporate class struggle and other forms of social change into our analysis.

Pakistan’s only socialist daily has been banned due to its coverage of mass protests and state violence in Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir, writes Saidal Sukhandan.

Romain Castellesi discusses the nature of struggles against deindustrialisation in France and the importance of working class history and memory in the face of economic crisis.

The scale of the disaster in Nepal, which spread across borders, demonstrates the stark reality of the existential climate emergency, writes Partido Lakas ng Masa.