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The Price of War: How the US Assault on Iran Continues to Burden the Global South

THE United States’ war against Iran has harmed the Iranian people, of course, but it has perhaps struck the people of the Global South equally starkly. From Dakar to Dhaka, from Suva to Maputo, the most immediate consequence is not military but economic. The burden of this war is not carried primarily by Washington or by the financial centres of the North Atlantic.

Bolivia at the Crossroads: Crisis, Division, and the Return of Imperialist Ambition

Bolivia faces a dangerous convergence of economic difficulties, political fragmentation, and renewed imperialist intervention. The immediate crisis is visible in fuel shortages, inflationary pressures, currency instability, and growing public frustration. Long queues at petrol stations have become symbols of a wider sense of uncertainty. Foreign currency reserves have declined, making imports more expensive and placing pressure on the government’s ability to manage the economy.

Donald Trump Comes to Beijing with Hat in Hand, Leaves with a Handshake

THE scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump travelled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping, Western media, as it often does, fixated on spectacle: lavish banquets, honour guards, theatrical gestures that were designed to flatter the US president. Yet beneath all this ritual lay another reality, harder and more consequential. The United States did not arrive in Beijing from a position of confidence; it came in a state of vulnerability.

The War on Iran and the Fracturing of the Gulf Alliance

THE illegal US-Israeli war on Iran has entered a dangerous new phase. What began in late February as a coordinated United States–Israeli military campaign aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear energy and missile infrastructure has evolved into a prolonged regional conflict with profound geopolitical consequences. Over the past week, the fragile ceasefire negotiated in April has steadily deteriorated, with renewed clashes in the Strait of Hormuz threatening to engulf the Persian Gulf in a wider war.

May Day Around the World Against the General Crisis of Capitalism

On May Day, the world’s working classes once again stepped into the streets, not merely to commemorate their past struggles and wallow in nostalgia, but to confront the deepening contradictions of the present. From Santiago to Istanbul, from Paris to Manila, the red banners rose against a horizon darkened by war, inflation, and the tightening grip of capital over life. May Day did not unfold as ritual but erupted as necessity.

Hungary’s Reshuffle Within Far Right of a Special Type

Hungary’s April 2026 parliamentary elections ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule and brought Péter Magyar to power with a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Instantly, the Western media began to celebrate the victory as a democratic turning point, indicating that Magyar, unlike Orbán, was cosy with the European Union. Yet, beneath the celebratory rhetoric of democratic renewal lies a more sober reality. What has occurred is not a rupture with the political trajectory of the post-communist period in Hungary, but a reconfiguration within the right-wing bloc itself.

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon

As the United States farcically walks away from the negotiations with Iran in Pakistan, it was always a matter of concern whether Israel would abide by any such agreement. This was particularly the case with Lebanon and with the Palestinian territories, where Israel seemed absolutely hell bent on creating new ‘facts on the ground’, including evacuating more sections of Gaza, ethnically cleansing more towns in the West Bank, and eliminating almost one million people from the entire southern half of Lebanon.

Cuba Stands, Cuba Resists

The world is looking elsewhere. Other conflicts dominate the headlines. But Cuba is under attack. Wars these days are fought not only on the battlefield. There is a simultaneous information war being waged to shape perception through deception and gain a psychological advantage. This is something more subtle. More dangerous. In Cuba, the goal is to break the Cuban peoples resistance from within.

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