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The state and its workers: China’s class politics after 1989

Yueran Zhang studies the domestic impacts of the post-1989 reforms, shedding light on the neglected story of class-political transformations that attended China’s global rise.
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Social murder: Pandemic profits and vaccine apartheid

Life-saving drugs are produced only if they can generate profits that capitalists consider acceptable. The result, argues Ian Angus, is social murder.
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On Trump and Trumpism: Inventory versus state form

Replying to Paul Le Blanc, Anthony Teso contends that socialist analysis must identify the structure it confronts and the organisation capable of defeating it, rather than merely registering dangers and applauding resistance.
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Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump

Paul Le Blanc looks at the underlying ideology and social forces behind the Trump regime, and explores the strengths and limitations of the growing anti-Trump resistance.
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Trumpism: A patrimonial Bonapartism regime

Anthony Teso argues why Trumpism represents a form of patrimonial Bonapartism and how this analysis can help the left understand what it must do differently in response.
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‘Surprise’ election result poses new challenges for Colombia’s left

The rapid rise of a far-right candidate in the presidential campaign should not have been a surprise. A left win in the second round won’t be easy, but the battle is far from over, writes Ana Cristina Carvalhaes.
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The anti-capitalist left surge in Argentina and the letter that sparked a crucial debate

With Milei’s government in crisis, polls show a surge in support for socialist MP Myriam Bregman. Eduardo Lucita explains why and discusses the debate sparked by an open letter to the left
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The end of the 6x1 work week: A working-class victory in Brazil

In an historic victory for the working class — one that will have a political impact on the upcoming national election — Brazil’s chamber of deputies voted to end the odious “6x1” work week, writes Israel Dutra.
Doug Burgum and Delcy Rodriguez meet in Caracas, March 4, 2025 [Photo: @delcyrodriguezv]

Bolivarian twilight: The recolonization of Venezuela

Realignments since January 3 have served to strengthen US control over Venezuela, but the conditions for recolonization were set in place years before, contends Luís Bonilla-Molina.
Salaried miners protest the policies of President Rodrigo Paz near Plaza Murillo in La Paz, Bolivia, on May 18, 2026. (William Wroblewski)

Bolivia into the abyss

Fuel shortages, inflation, and political exclusion have triggered a wave of fragmented unrest with no clear movement capable of channeling popular anger, writes Angus McNelly.
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Techno-oligarchs are using social media to normalise fascism

Paulo Antunes Ferreira makes the case for why we need to urgently dismantle the neoliberal algorithmic dictatorship of techno-oligarchs.
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AI, industrial sovereignty and Pax Silica

Pax Silica is a US-led drive to secure control over semiconductors, AI and critical minerals. The Philippines will lose out if it becomes a military-industrial node within this project, writes Reihana Mohideen.