En acceptant l'agression américaine au Venezuela, Emmanuel Macron s'est discrédité et a abandonné toute capacité d'agir. C'est donc sans lui qu'il faut commencer à bâtir le futur. Personne ne peut croire désormais que la politique de Donald Trump est intuitive, versatile ou erratique. En moins d'un an, le président américain a mis sur la table toutes les ruptures qu'il entend imposer à l'ordre du monde. Et l'Europe a fait l'autruche, systématiquement. Elle a cru calmer daddy en se (…)

L'image fut sidérante : un chef d'État, Nicolas Maduro, capturé avec sa femme, suivi d'un président, Donald Trump, annonçant tranquillement que les États-Unis allaient diriger le Vénézuéla et y installer des compagnies pétrolières. Cet acte brutal, sans soubassement juridique, est une affirmation de puissance. Il vise la soumission à l'ordre du monde voulu par Trump et la mainmise sur le pétrole, mot qui a d'ailleurs été prononcé plus de vingt fois lors de sa conférence de presse. Cette (…)

Sans minorer les aspects idéologiques ou géopolitiques de l'intervention américaine – réaffirmer la doctrine Monroe, asseoir des sphères d'influence impériales –, on ne peut comprendre l'enlèvement de Nicolas Maduro si l'on ignore les masses financières colossales associées à un changement de régime à Caracas. Il ne s'agit pas de minorer les aspects idéologiques ou géopolitiques de l'intervention américaine – réaffirmer la doctrine Monroe, asseoir des sphères d'influence impériales. (…)

“Russia can only win the war”, “Russia has never been defeated”, “How naïve to think one could vanquish a country that possesses nuclear weapons”... etc, etc. This refrain (which is inaccurate), originating from the Kremlin, is being broadcast insistently by the right, the far right, and a certain “radical” left. We witnessed a recent illustration of this in Belgium when all parties represented in Parliament, from Vlaams Belang to the PTB, supported De Wever in the matter of Russian (…)

In the two years since its nationalisation, Ukrnafta has generated more profits than in the 20 years it was privately owned. On 5 November 2022, the public limited company ‘Ukrnafta' was transferred to state ownership. Until 2022, Ukrnafta was owned by oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Between 2022 and 2023, Ukrnafta's profits reached nearly US$1 billion, exceeding the profits made by the company during the entire period it was owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Since its nationalisation, Ukrnafta has (…)

Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Ernest Mandel's Theoretical Contributions By Manuel Kellner, translated by Maciej Zurowski Foreword to the English Edition by Michael Löwy Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2024, 465 pages including index. $40 paperback. AN ACCUMULATION OF global crises and catastrophes have been generating powerful stirrings of radicalization throughout the world that are causing increasing numbers of young activists to reach out for examples and insights from revolutionary (…)

communia œuvre en faveur de la socialisation, du luxe public et d'une économie démocratique. Inspirée par l'initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen (Exproprier Deutsche Wohnen & Co.), communia a été fondée en 2020 en tant qu'association à but non lucratif. L'objectif de communia était et reste de porter la question de la socialisation – c'est-à-dire le transfert de secteurs économiques centraux vers la propriété collective – au-delà du secteur du logement vers d'autres domaines (…)

They follow people, moving back and forth through the streets and constantly humming, creating a new soundtrack that means one thing to Gazans: You are being watched. Palestinians in Gaza tell Haaretz what it's like to live under a watchful and potentially lethal eye “Privacy is when you feel safe. We don't have that,” says one Gaza resident. Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP; Shumisat Rasulaev For more than two years, the sound of drones has been a constant in Gaza City – even when the streets (…)

« La Russie ne peut que gagner la guerre », « La Russie n'a jamais été battue », « Qu'elle naïveté de penser qu'on pourrait vaincre un pays qui a l'arme atomique »... etc, etc. Cette petite musique (inexacte), qui trouve son origine au Kremlin, est diffusée avec insistance par la droite, l'extrême-droite, et une certaine gauche « radicale ». On en a eu l'illustration récente en Belgique lorsque tous les partis représentés au Parlement, du Vlaams Belang au PTB, ont appuyé De Wever dans (…)

The United States operation in Venezuela appears to have taken everyone by surprise: those who believed it would ultimately not happen and those who thought that the “extraction” of Nicolás Maduro would open the way for María Corina Machado to arrive at the Miraflores Palace. A complex process now begins, with the former vice-president Delcy Rodríguez in charge of a power overseen by Trump himself, who boasts that he is the one who “runs” the country. The US military action, during which (…)

The exchange between philosopher Frédéric Lordon and La France Insoumise raises questions central to ecosocialist strategy internationally: whether electoral left formations can genuinely challenge capitalism, and what distinguishes rhetorical anticapitalism from the real thing. In October 2025, the French philosopher and economist Frédéric Lordon published a provocative essay asking whether La France Insoumise (LFI, France Unbowed) — France's main radical left formation — deserves to (…)

The 'death' of Denis Kapustin special operation that exposed and thwarted a Russian assassination plot. Kapustin has a controversial background as a far-right activist with neo-Nazi associations in Germany before moving to Ukraine. He was banned from the Schengen Area in 2019 and has been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by Russian courts.]] became not only one of the most discussed operations by HUR at the start of 2026, but also brought renewed attention to a genuinely acute (…)

Le politiste Nedjib Sidi Moussa retrace la trajectoire militante et savante de Mohammed Harbi, mort le 1er janvier 2026 à Paris. Engagé très tôt pour l'indépendance, promoteur de l'autogestion après 1962, emprisonné sous Boumédiène et exilé en France, historien critique du mouvement national, il fut « un intellectuel postcolonial total et un socialiste internationaliste impénitent ». La disparition de Mohammed Harbi, survenue le premier jour de cette nouvelle année, nous impose un devoir (…)

OPINION. In the initial rush of news on Saturday morning, many commentators speculated that the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was also a blow to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, since Venezuela and Russia are allies. To the contrary, it is a victory for Putin, because it is a blow—quite likely fatal—to the new world order of law, justice and human rights that was heralded in the wake of the Second World War. That order was never as robust as its champions made it (…)

Le 1er janvier 2026, le militant anticolonial et historien algérien Mohammed Harbi s'est éteint à l'âge de 92 ans. Se décrivant comme un « marxiste dans une organisation nationaliste », Harbi fut militant du Front de libération nationale (FLN) algérien pendant la lutte pour l'indépendance entre 1954 et 1962 et durant les premières années de l'indépendance. Arrêté après le coup d'État de 1965 mené par Houari Boumédiène, Harbi devint un critique virulent du régime. En exil en France depuis (…)

Donald Trump is not merely posturing; he does what he says. European government officials ought to be alarmed, but their reactions to the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro are, as feared, dismal. They express no originality on the international stage, contradict the principles that the “coalition of the willing” in support of Ukraine is supposed to defend, and portray a continent reduced to spectator as a historical shift unfolds that will soon devour it. Since Saturday, statements have been (…)

In a context where the arms race has resumed with unprecedented vigour on an international scale, the F-35 scandal and the federal popular initiative of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) on armed neutrality are putting the question of the army and militarism back at the centre of Swiss political debate. To contribute to the ongoing discussion, Marx21.ch website has reproduced chapter 2 of Jean Batou's book, Nos années 68 dans le cerveau du monstre (Vevey, Éditions de l'Aire, 2018, pp. 55-85), (…)

The American military operation that led to the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife during the night of 2–3 January caught not only the Venezuelan regime off guard, but also its principal international allies. The official statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs employed language that Beijing typically reserves for political assassinations and events with mass casualties. The kidnapping of the Venezuelan leader by US special forces provoked what officials described as (…)

In the coming months, we shall have to take a position on the Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP) initiative on neutrality, which claims to work for peace and defend Switzerland's role as a mediator in international conflicts. In reality, this initiative conceals a militarist offensive by the conservative right, whilst at the same time reinforcing one of the pillars of Swiss imperialism. The launch by the POP (Parti Ouvrier et Populaire) of a “left-wing” committee in (…)

Donald Trump certainly has global ambitions. He is using tariffs to remake the global economy, withdrawing the United States from as many multinational organisations and agreements as possible in order to destroy the liberal international order, and he has alternated between confronting adversaries (like Iran) and brokering ceasefires (like the one in Gaza). But he also has hemispheric aims — to consolidate US hegemony in its “backyard” of Latin America and the Caribbean. In some ways, (…)

At the heart of Voices Against Putin's War are ten speeches made in court by people who opposed Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, and were arrested and tried for doing so. Most of them are now serving long jail sentences, for “crimes” fabricated by Vladimir Putin's repressive machine. Along with the speeches, we include: other public declarations – social media posts, letters and interviews – in which the protagonists made their case; statements by two more persecuted activists, made (…)

Au bout de quarante-huit heures, Emmanuel Macron a tenu à préciser en conseil des ministres que « la méthode employée » par les États-Unis pour décapiter le régime aux commandes du Venezuela n'était « ni soutenue ni approuvée ». Ces propos s'avèrent cette fois-ci cohérents avec la première réaction de son ministre des affaires étrangères, qui avait pointé l'entorse au droit international du kidnapping de Nicolás Maduro, le président du pays, sous des raisons fallacieuses. Samedi, en (…)

L'enlèvement de Maduro a mis à nu l'impuissance de Pékin. Des milliards ont été investis en Amérique latine, mais lorsque Washington intervient, la Chine ne peut faire plus que condamner verbalement. L'opération militaire américaine qui a conduit à l'enlèvement de Nicolás Maduro et de son épouse dans la nuit du 2 au 3 janvier a pris au dépourvu non seulement le régime vénézuélien, mais aussi ses principaux alliés internationaux. La déclaration officielle du ministère chinois des Affaires (…)

The organisations of the International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggle express their strongest and most categorical condemnation of the imperialist bombings carried out by the United States military forces against Venezuelan territory on the night of Saturday, 3 January 2026. This is a direct military aggression that violates Venezuela's national sovereignty, attacks its people and represents a serious threat to peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. The attacks on (…)