The US economic war on Cuba makes reform riskier, yet this pressure has ultimately propelled a transformation that had been continuously postponed, writes La Joven Cuba.

With Cuba under attack from the US empire, major powers that present themselves as defenders of a multipolar world have confined themselves to declarations of solidarity, writes Eric Toussaint.

When Soviet ideologues constructed Leninism, writes Boris Kagarlitsky, they missed the essence of his approach: a non-dogmatic openness in which theory is inseparable from ever-changing practice.

Far more than a form of discipline and centralisation, Lenin’s guiding idea targets what he calls the “disorganising” confusion between party and class, contends Daniel Bensaïd.

Writing from prison, Boris Kagarlitsky engages with Yanis Varoufakis’s account of the transformations that have taken place in the economy and society as a result of new technologies.

A Russian socialist from the Left For Peace Without Annexations explains why the left should support the resistance by Ukrainians and Russia’s anti-war opposition.

Profits are rising, but not because of excessive government spending as is often claimed, argues Michael Roberts.

Gresa Hasa looks at how a Jared Kushner real estate project became a rallying point against crony capitalism.

Partido Lakas ng Masa challenge Akbayan’s Perci Cendaña’s statement lauding national defence secretary Gibo Teodoro as a defender of Philippine sovereignty and respond to attacks by an Akbayan supporter.

The people of Pakistani-administered Jammu Kashmir remain in the streets after almost two weeks of blackout, siege and state violence, writes Umair Khurshid.

Pranaya Rana on the long road that turned a rapper into Nepal's prime minister.

The INDIA bloc needs a new impetus rooted in democratic resistance, unity, humility and renewed political purpose, argues Dipankar Bhattacharya.