Against the Stream

With his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump has once again caused shock and awe around the world. But what does his apparent change of heart on the war in Ukraine actually signify? A...

25 Sep 20251h 21min

Last week saw hundreds of thousands attend the biggest right wing demonstration in decades. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer’s Labour-government is facing a meltdown after just a year in office. How should the...

18 Sep 20251h 41min

Lenin once said that there are weeks where decades happen. This is one of those weeks. The French government collapsed. Revolutions broke out in Indonesia and Nepal. Israel bombed peace negotiations i...

11 Sep 20251h 23min

Against the Stream is back for another season of weekly Marxist analysis! This week, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín catch up on all the convulsive developments over the summer: the further decline of...

4 Sep 20251h 16min

This week, in a dramatic turn of events, Trump – who campaigned on the promise to end US ‘forever wars’ – decided to get involved in Israel’s war on Iran by dropping bombs on its nuclear facilities. N...

26 Juni 20251h 4min

[Read Alan Woods' analysis of Israel's attack on Marxist.com]This week, the turmoil in the Middle East reached new heights as Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran, targeting its military leader...

19 Juni 20251h 43min

This week, thousands of workers flooded onto the streets of LA in response to ICE agents raiding workplaces and neighbourhoods. Since then, Trump has tried to crush the movement by calling in the Mari...

12 Juni 20251h 16min

2025 marks a turning point in world history.The tectonic plates of international relations are shifting, the globalised world economy is being torn apart, and the entire capitalist order is being shak...

5 Juni 20251h 26min