By constantly repeating the claim of an alleged American conspiracy to oust him, Khan has successfully retained his base to some extent. It is possible that the no confidence motion was not orchestrated by the Americans, but it served their interests.
Inflation globally will not subside until a new slump emerges, signalling that the central bank war on inflation has been lost.
The result of the failure of social democracy is that social emergencies do not find answers if we do not bring into play the balance of power of social mobilization, if we do not attack to the capitalist system.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the second defining moment of the New Cold War in which the world has been plunged since the turn of the century as a result of the US decision to expand NATO.
Imperialist countries invade weaker nations and try to impose their rule over them. Once the world is divided up by the great powers, one imperialist’s gain can come only at the expense of another. That is the nub of the matter today.
The relations between Western powers and Russia have never been closer to war since WWII than after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the US and Russia was never closer to each other than in Syria after the chemical deal in September 2013.
Putin’s approval rating spiked after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, as it had fifteen years earlier with the bombing of Chechnya. An ideological climate of conservatism and nationalism has dominated the country for almost ten years, at least among older Russians.
Already, the situation has significantly raised the danger of a broader military conflict in Europe. A full scale or even partial invasion of Ukraine will lead to death and destruction on an enormous scale.
It is not an exaggeration to say that what is currently happening in the heart of the European continent is the most dangerous moment in contemporary history and the closest to a Third World war since the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba in 1962.
A Zanovo-media correspondent interviewed Ainur Kurmanov – one of the leaders of Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan.
This popular alliance will have a difficult task: to confront the newly radicalized right wing and its desire for anti-popular revanchism. That confrontation will take place in the streets and will draw on the lessons of self-defense learned decades ago…
China has long seen high-speed economic growth tied to property investment. That model is now failing.
There seems to be no evidence to justify the claim by some mainstream optimists that the advanced capitalist world is about to experience a roaring 2020s as the US briefly did in 1920s after the Spanish flu epidemic.
The ISP is proud to publish this translation of a reflection on Open Veins, 50 years later, written by the Argentinian Marxist economist Claudio Katz, and presented at the International Seminar marking 50 years since the publication of Open Veins.
Israel and its lobby groups have long attempted to discredit, defund and disrupt the work of Palestinian human rights groups like those declared illegal last month.
