In this interview with Federico Fuentes, Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by United States President Donald Trump and how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony.
Africa
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by United States President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion, writes Binoy Kampmark.
The situation in Sudan is described as the “biggest humanitarian catastrophe on Earth”, with children dying at a rate of 13 a day in the famine-stricken Zamzam camp for internally displaced persons, reports Pavan Kulkarni.
Mozambique is at a critical juncture, with post-election discontent revealing deep-rooted flaws in its political system, writes Boaventura Monjane.
Sixteen months since the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began, 26.6 million Sudanese, more than half of the population, now live in a state of severe food insecurity, reports Susan Price.
Mark Baugher provides an overview of the challenges in charting a roadmap towards ecosocialism ahead of the Global Ecosocialist Network and marxmail.world on-line forum on September 10. which features Rehad Desai, Howie Hawkins, Simon Pirani and Sabrina Fernandez.
Mali, then Burkina Faso, and finally Niger have experienced coups d’état and subsequently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). What should we make of this new reality for West Africa? Paul Martial provides his analysis.
The leaders of the three main countries in Africa’s Sahel region — just south of the Sahara Desert — met in Niamey, Niger, to deepen their Alliance of Sahel States (AES), on July 6 and 7, writes Vijay Prashad.
With biting irony, the British government had demonstrated to Rwanda that it could replace the supposedly vile market of people smuggling in Europe with a lucrative market effectively monetising asylum seekers and refugees in exchange of pledges of development, writes Binoy Kampmark.
South African human rights activist Salim Vally speaks to Jonathan Ramnac in the latest episode of the Green Left Show.
Salim Vally began his activism as a student leader fighting against his country’s apartheid regime. Today, he heads up the South African BDS coalition. Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Vally — who will be a guest speaker at Ecosocialism 2024 — about the global campaign against Israeli apartheid.
Isaac Nellist and Riley Breen discuss the student Gaza encampments, public servants speaking out for Palestine and the South African elections.
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