Imperialism

The Xi-Trump summit and what it says about the US-China imperialist conflict

Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, hig...

Iran’s History of Imperialism, Dictatorships and Revolutions

April 1, 2026 Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee Iran has been at the centre of global events continuously for more than a century. Imperialist powers dominated the entire period up to the revolution in 1979, treating Iran as ...

Trump and Netanyahu’s War on Iran

Build and escalate working-class antiwar resistance!  The Middle East is in flames once more, and again it is Trump who has lit the fire. The world’s warmonger-in-chief has unleashed a new dangerous situation. After building up the bigges...

Trump, Venezuela & US imperialism on the offensive

Danny Byrne & Andre Ferrari, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 16 January 2026) 2026 has begun with US imperialism on the offensive. The reactionary juggernaut of Donald Trump dominated 2025, sh...

Trump’s push for “peace” in Ukraine – A nightmare for European capitalism

Danny Byrne, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 17 December 2025) Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scra...

Venezuela in the crosshairs of Trump and imperialism

Respond to imperialist attacks and threats with workers’ mobilisation, international solidarity and the struggle for a genuine socialist alternative in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. André Ferrari, Liberdade Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in B...

Gaza war: Israel’s missiles in Doha shake the region and increase tensions and resistance

The struggle against Israel's war is a struggle against imperialism and capitalism Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee (This article was first published on 11 September 2025) With the attack on the Hamas headquarters in Doha,...

Gaza: Imperialist genocide vs. workers’ solidarity

Trump's dystopian Gaza 'plan' revealed as dock workers defend aid flotilla Jonas Brannberg, Socialistisk Alternative (ISA in Sweden) (This article was first published on 2 September 2025) While starvation and bombs claim new victims in Gaza, the poli...

Marxism and the national question: The continuing relevance of Lenin’s ideas today

Lenin’s ideas united workers across nations to fight capitalism and imperialism Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales, and Scotland) Among the many contributions to the ideas of socialism made by Vladimir Lenin was to clarify the approach of...

The World Of Trump 2.0

Statement on World Perspectives by ISA’s International Political Committee The famous observation of Vladimir Lenin, that “there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen” could have been easily written with our epoch ...

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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

March 11, 2026 Leon Pinsky, Sociaist Alternative (ISA in the US) A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Part...

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