WITH THE PROTESTS that have broken out in Iran, one has seen all-too-typical reactions from those often referred to as tankies or campists. With the emergence of protests against an autocratic, theocratic regime that has positioned itself in opposition to the US, tankies and campists have been quick to denounce the protests as a US-orchestrated “color revolution.” Indeed, if the Trump administration carries out airstrikes or some other form of military intervention directed at the Iranian (…)

La Chine a annoncé le 24 janvier dernier la destitution du plus haut responsable militaire chinois, le général Zhang Youxia. Cette nouvelle purge fracassante dans l'armée met en lumière de fortes tensions au sein du régime. Mais elle pourrait aussi traduire la volonté du président Xi Jinping de réunir les conditions au sein de l'Armée populaire de libération (APL) pour mener un jour une guerre prolongée contre Taïwan. Le général Zhang Youxia (张又侠), 75 ans, vice-président de la Commission (…)

Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region. Inserted into the capitalist world economy, Serbia is in a typical position of a semi-peripheral country. Its strategic geographical position in the (…)