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Invisible Shipwreck Victims

22 October 2025 - by Fernanda Gadea

Continue to give a voice to those who do not have one. In a world where news changes at the speed of a click, it is easy for new conflicts to replace old ones, for tragedies to begin to fall into oblivion, and for the most fragile voices to (…)
Charlie Kirk, Col. Kurtz, and Donald Trump’s Heart of Darkness

12 September 2025 - by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country and around the world, not only through its raw violence, with a single, deadly sniper shot, but as a hallmark of worsening political (…)
[Autumn meetings schedule] Justice for Congo: Western Imperialism in the DRC

2 August 2025 - by CADTM Belgique

From Palestine to Congo, acts of imperialist violence echo and reinforce each other. The four women panellists will shed light on actors, strategies, and discourses that support neocolonial and extractivist exploitation of the DRC. We will (…)
At Hague Group Emergency Summit, 30+ Nations Seek to ’Halt the Genocide in Gaza’

16 July 2025 - by Brett Wilkins

Host nation Colombia’s deputy foreign minister said participants “will not only reaffirm their commitment to opposing genocide, but also formulate concrete steps to move from words to collective action.” Ministerial delegates from more than (…)
On a Dying Multilateralism

9 July 2025 - by Walden Bello

The recent unilateral strikes by the United States on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to the question of the deployment of military (…)
AHE 2025: imperialism, China and financialisation

27 June 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Last week the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) took place in London. I quote from the AHE website: “Formed in 1999 to provide an annual conference where all heterodox (that is, Post Keynesian, Marxian, Sraffian, (…)
For the Rulers of India and Pakistan, War Fever Is a Boon

17 May 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar, Farooq Sulehria

The governments of India and Pakistan pulled back from the brink over Kashmir because neither can afford a full-scale war. Bellicose rhetoric and a climate of strident nationalism have helped both governments as they face problems on the domestic (…)
Both the BRICS and Bandung revivalism need tough critiques – not quasi-cults

22 April 2025 - by Patrick Bond

How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay Prashad? The New Bandung Spirit is about Industrial Development... The original [BRICS] members – (…)
Trump tariffs seen from contradictory angles

8 April 2025 - by Patrick Bond

Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation Day,’ April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic catastrophe could (…)
Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

2 April 2025 - by Federico Fuentes, Adam Hanieh

[Editor’s note: Marxist scholar Adam Hanieh will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2025, September 5-7, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. For more information on the conference visit ecosocialism.org.au] Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and (…)
Washington-Pretoria power spasms:

25 March 2025 - by Patrick Bond

Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and TruthSocial dispatches from Donald Trump’s White House, Mario Rubio’s State Department and Elon Musk’s overstressed (…)
U.S. rulers versus South African rulers – versus both their peoples and ecologies

18 February 2025 - by Patrick Bond

Cyril Ramaphosa vainly hopes Trump’s threats – on racial redress, woke G20 management and calling out Israel’s genocide – will be retracted over a round of golf and a bilateral trade deal Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm (…)
Migration perspectives during Trump’s second term in office

9 February 2025 - by Víctor Manuel Isidro Luna

Abstract International migration is one of the main issues in the world today. International migration has multiple manifestations and indicates desire for a better social life. Trump’s opposition to migration has been one of the pillars of (…)
US election part two: Trump v Harris

5 November 2024 - by Michael Roberts

There’s just one day to go before the US presidential election vote and in this second part of my posts on the US economy, I shall look at the economic policies of the two main candidates. In one sense, who wins matters little to big (…)
The BRICS summit in Russia offers no alternative

26 October 2024 - by Eric Toussaint

On 23 October 2023, the 16th BRICS summit issued a 134-point Kazan Declaration clearly stating that the BRICS bloc is not an alternative in the interests of the people. There is such widespread disgust with the policies of these traditional (…)
Rising dangers of imperial+sub-imperial partnering:

19 October 2024 - by Patrick Bond

Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan from October 22-24 – now consist of not only Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but also Egypt, (…)
“No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky”: 100 Years of Amilcar Cabral

12 September 2024 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar

Anti-Colonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century. (…)
Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism

26 April 2024 - by Michael Roberts

Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper in Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused exclusively on the economic aspects of imperialism. We defined that as the persistent and long-term (…)
US imperial dominance, BRICS sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange

10 January 2024 - by Patrick Bond, Federico Fuentes

Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is the author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique and Extreme (…)
With Palestine and Ukraine against Russia, NATO and Israel Greta leads the way!

6 January 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias

And yet, despite the gloomy news, despite the rampant barbarism, despite the depression that pervades everything, there is still light and hope! And this light and this hope are the young people who are fighting at the same time on all the great (…)
The World Bank: A Critical History – book review

23 September 2023 - by John Clarke

Éric Toussaint’s history of the World Bank shows powerfully how it and other international institutions have enforced imperialist exploitation, finds John Clarke It is entirely fitting that the final chapter of this book should present a list (…)
BRICS+ emerge from Johannesburg, humbled as sub- (not anti- or inter-) imperialists

30 August 2023 - by Patrick Bond

However, the notable intensity within the new membership of fossil-addicted economies, of tyrannies and of human rights violations – civil, socio-economic and environmental – amplifies the existing group’s dangers. Still, the other 17 countries (…)
The BRICS Johannesburg summit’s hype, hope and helplessness

18 August 2023 - by Patrick Bond

Before the August 22-24 summit in Johannesburg raised expectations for a new counterbalancing force in global politics – and struck fear into many Western elites’ hearts and minds – at least five factors had reduced the (…)
Resisting the shock doctrine

15 July 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Sushovan Dhar, Yuliya Yurchenko

Ashley Smith chairs an event with Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar on the global movement against neoliberalism, debt, and the struggle in Ukraine. In this discussion, Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar (…)
China’s Overseas Investment in the Belt and Road Era

4 May 2023 - by Globalization Monitor

This report aims to provide an overview of some of the issues involved related to Chinese overseas investment and the consequences for recipient countries, the people and the environment. It is hoped that awareness can be raised with a view to (…)