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Towards the inevitable clash to the death between Trump and Mamdani!

12 November 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Young, intelligent, talented, energetic, handsome, charismatic, a very good speaker, a hard worker, a skilled communicator, and so on. The media in our countries are not wrong when they attribute all these virtues to Zohran Mamdani. Zohran is all (…)
Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up

11 November 2025 - by Nathan Gusdorf

New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern. Zohran Mamdani is just weeks away (…)
Zohran Mamdani, Eugene V. Debs, and the Dawn

7 November 2025 - by Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Zohran Mamdani made history, winning the race to be the next mayor of New York City. The Democratic socialist is the first Muslim and the first person of South Asian descent elected to lead the largest city in the United States. At 34 years old, (…)
Zohran Mamdani, after his election as Mayor of New York on 5 November 2025: ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants.’

6 November 2025 - by CADTM, Zohran Mamdani

On Tuesday, November 5, 2025, Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election, securing one million votes and defeating Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York State, who was backed by Donald Trump and the political (…)
The Struggle Beyond the Ballot: Understanding Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign

5 November 2025 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

The ascent of Zohran Mamdani in New York City politics has been more than just a local tale; it has shown how the American left has evolved over the past twenty years. His campaign promised free public transportation, fair rent, and daycare for (…)
Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive

24 October 2025 - by Luis Bonilla-Molina, Ana Cristina Carvalhaes

During its first nine months, the Trump administration has deployed warships and military infrastructure to the Caribbean, blown up small boats accused of drug trafficking, imposed 50% tariffs on Brazilian products — in opposition to the outcome (…)
When Trump revives eugenics responsible for the worst crimes against humanity!

24 October 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

It must be said that what was unthinkable—and unacceptable—just a few months ago is now becoming commonplace: Trump is a fascist! And he is working to establish a fascist regime! All things considered, we can only rejoice at this now almost (…)
Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh:

A Festival of Obsequiousness

23 October 2025 - by Gilbert Achcar

If the scenes of Donald Trump’s celebration at the Israeli Knesset and in Sharm el-Sheikh were staged for cinematic or theatrical exploitation, they would undoubtedly rank among the worst productions in history. These two spectacles formed a (…)
The World After American Decline

21 October 2025 - by Michael Roberts, Arman Spéth

Donald Trump has abandoned the project of neoliberal globalization in a desperate bid to reverse America’s decline. It’s cut the ground from underneath Washington’s junior partners and left the European Union floundering. Describing the state (…)
The AI bubble and the US economy

16 October 2025 - by Michael Roberts

The US stock market continues to hit new record highs; the bitcoin price is also close to highs and the gold price has rocketed to all-time highs. Investors in financial assets (banks, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds etc) are (…)
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 (…)
Against Trump the dictator, history does not always repeat itself as farce!

8 September 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

While Trump frantically multiplies measures, initiatives, and faits accomplis that are paving the way for the establishment of a truly dictatorial regime in the United States, the leaders of the Democratic Party, foreign ministries around the (…)
Tariffs and the US economy

5 August 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Last week, the mega tech companies – the so-called Magnificent Seven – presented their latest earnings results. They appeared to be ‘blockbuster’. They painted a picture of a booming economy, supporting President Trump’s assertion that America (…)
Real and fake antidotes to Trump’s latest tariffs, seen from South Africa

10 July 2025 - by Patrick Bond

U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – (…)
Zohran Mamdani : A young Muslim socialist at the head of a mass movement, triumphing over the Democratic establishment in New York!

30 June 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

CNN headlines: ‘Mamdani delivered a political earthquake’ and ‘Democrats should be running scared’. The Jacobin website calls it a “Political lightning struck New York City last nigh”. The Nation, ‘America’s oldest left-wing magazine’, notes that (…)
Zoran Mamdani’s win : can it catalyse a new wave of struggles?

30 June 2025 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary election in New York City could mark a significant political shift, especially given the growing influence of hardcore right-wing politics in the United States and worldwide. (…)
First setbacks for apprentice dictator Donald Trump!

23 June 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

Only the blind cannot see what is now obvious: Trump wants to be a dictator, behaves like one, and is doing everything he can to establish a dictatorship! Seen from this angle, all his recent “initiatives” and other more or less “crazy” and (…)
No Kings! Freedom! Millions Protest Trump across the United States

23 June 2025 - by Dan La Botz

At least five million people participated in 2,000 “No Kings Day” protests in big cities and small towns in all 50 states, the largest yet in a series of national demonstrations. In a festive but defiant spirit, with bands and drummers, the (…)
Arab Elites Welcome Trump As Massacres In Gaza Continue

8 June 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar

As Israel’s war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming US President Donald Trump and signing multimillion-dollar trade agreements. Between May 13 and 16, Trump visited Saudi Arabia, (…)
Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill

29 May 2025 - by Michael Roberts

The US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress, in which the Republican party has a slender majority, has passed President Donald Trump’s government budget proposals. Trump calls this “The Big, Beautiful Bill”. It would extend (…)
Geonomics, nationalism and trade

20 May 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Geonomics is a new term for international economic theories and policies. According to Gillian Tett at the FT, in the past, “it was generally assumed that rational economic self interest ruled the roost, not grubby politics. Politics seemed to (…)
“The mining agreement signed between Ukraine and the United States illustrates the desire of US capital for unrestricted access to Ukrainian mineral resources.”

14 May 2025 - by Vitaliy Dudin

The minerals deal signed between Ukraine and the United States reflects US capital’s desire to gain unhindered access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. It also gives the US new leverage over Ukraine’s economic and political situation. In contrast, (…)
Rich and powerful versus poor and weak

Trump is globalizing the class struggle!

9 May 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias

The first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency have been enough for Trumpism to upset not only the certainties of the international order established by those from above, but also the dispositions and perception of that international order by (…)
Australia: stuck in the middle

2 May 2025 - by Michael Roberts

The island continent of Australia holds a federal election today (Saturday) with the country stuck in the middle of the trade war between the US and China. Around 18m Australians are eligible to vote and voting is compulsory (although the (…)
Canada: election under the shadow of Trump

28 April 2025 - by Michael Roberts

Canada has a snap general election today. It’s been called by the new prime minister Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of the incumbent Liberal party. government. The Liberals had been led by Justin Trudeau for years, but he stood down in (…)