[Originally published on marxist.com] Jorge Martín29 September 2025 What started as a day of peaceful protest called by the Madagascan youth on Thursday 25 September, ended with brutal repression, which left several youth killed by police, clashes and rioting. The government has declared a curfew in all major cities, but protests continue. The ‘leo délestage’ […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] Johannes Halter, RCI Brazil22 September 2025 Brazil faces its greatest external aggression since the 1964 coup. The same imperialist tormentor that orchestrated and encouraged the military dictatorship, the United States, is now imposing a protectionist policy of 50 percent tariffs on the Brazilian economy. Trump’s stated objectives are the release of […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] Jonathan Hinckley 21 August 2025 This week, Israel erupted into a ‘nationwide day of stoppage’ after Netanyahu announced the conquest and occupation of Gaza, effectively signing the death warrants of the remaining hostages. It is estimated that as many as one million Israelis – 10 percent of the population – came […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com: Bima Wicaksana01 September 2025] Within a week, what began as demonstrations with a semi-insurrectionary character have turned into an open revolutionary uprising which shows no sign of stopping. It is not only tearing down government buildings and police stations, but more importantly, it is shattering the mass stupor that has kept […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com: Daniel Morley and Parson Young29 August 2025] The Chinese Revolution of 1949 was one of the greatest events in human history. Marxists defend that revolution, which freed China from the shackles of imperialism after a heroic, decades-long struggle. [This article was originally published in #48 of the In Defence of Marxism […]
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[Originally published by In Defence of Marxism, 09 August 2025] We are living through an unprecedented crisis of capitalism. Inequality is at record levels. There are currently more wars than at any point since WW2. And the world economy is mired in stagnation, inflation, and crushing debt. Now, with the re-election of Trump, the entire […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com, 29 November 2024] Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Ethiopian Revolution, which began as an uprising against the semi-feudal despotism of Emperor Haile Selassie but would go much further, culminating in the abolition of capitalism in the country. In this article, Ben Curry, gives an account of these dramatic […]
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[Originally posted by International Marxist Tendency04 March 2022 – marxist.com] We publish here a document written in 2016 by the leadership of the IMT (now the Revolutionary Communist International) as part of a discussion about the role of imperialism today and the character of China and Russia. We think it can serve to clarify questions […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] We publish here an eyewitness account of the conditions faced by workers at one of the most important copper and cobalt producers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This account was sent to us by Maurice Odingo, the general secretary of the Comité de Kinshasa. It gives a crystal-clear view of […]
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[Originally published on marxist.com] Ylva Vinberg – 16 July 2025 Trump is eyeing Greenland, Putin is strengthening Russia’s base on the archipelago of Svalbard, all the while embarking on new joint ventures with China in the Arctic region at large. The world’s top imperialist powers are vying to strengthen their positions in the Arctic, elbowing […]
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