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3232Is Trumpism Fascism? Reflections on Leon Trotsky’s “Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trumpism-fascism-reflections-on-leon-trotskys-fascism-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trumpism-fascism-reflections-on-leon-trotskys-fascism-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it/#respondTue, 27 Jan 2026 17:45:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294068“The […] United States working class is [in] very many important respects […] the most progressive working class of the world.” Leon Trotsky wrote these words in 1944 not as flattery, but as a warning against fatalism. His essays on fascism were born from a conviction that catastrophe was not inevitable, that history turned on [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-trumpism-fascism-reflections-on-leon-trotskys-fascism-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it/feed/0The New World Order: Powers and Prospects
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-world-order-powers-and-prospects/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-world-order-powers-and-prospects/#respondSat, 17 Jan 2026 14:57:30 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293601During seemingly civilised bilateral trade talks in Beijing, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat across from Chinese president Xi Jinping and stated that ‘the world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order’. Whilst this [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-world-order-powers-and-prospects/feed/0Venezuela, the U.S. National Security Strategy, and the Crisis of Responsible Statehood
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-u-s-national-security-strategy-and-the-crisis-of-responsible-statehood/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-u-s-national-security-strategy-and-the-crisis-of-responsible-statehood/#respondTue, 06 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump administration’s logic in pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández while indicting the sitting Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on similar allegations of drug trafficking? This article examines the recent U.S. escalation from maritime [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/venezuela-the-u-s-national-security-strategy-and-the-crisis-of-responsible-statehood/feed/0Seizing an Oil Tanker off Venezuela
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seizing-an-oil-tanker-off-venezuela/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seizing-an-oil-tanker-off-venezuela/#respondThu, 01 Jan 2026 16:55:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292976Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted accusations of “piracy”, unlawful coercion, and a renewed U.S. assertion of hemispheric dominance. At first glance, this incident may look like a familiar episode in long-running U.S.–Venezuela tensions. But read alongside the new [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seizing-an-oil-tanker-off-venezuela/feed/0
“The […] United States working class is [in] very many important respects […] the most progressive working class of the world.” Leon Trotsky wrote these words in 1944 not as flattery, but as a warning against fatalism. His essays on fascism were born from a conviction that catastrophe was not inevitable, that history turned on [...]]]>
During seemingly civilised bilateral trade talks in Beijing, the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat across from Chinese president Xi Jinping and stated that ‘the world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order’. Whilst this [...]]]>
When does permissible strategic competition become illegitimate coercion, and when does state power begin to resemble organised crime? What is the Trump administration’s logic in pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández while indicting the sitting Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on similar allegations of drug trafficking? This article examines the recent U.S. escalation from maritime [...]]]>
Reports that U.S. forces boarded and seized a large oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast on 10 December 2025 have already prompted accusations of “piracy”, unlawful coercion, and a renewed U.S. assertion of hemispheric dominance. At first glance, this incident may look like a familiar episode in long-running U.S.–Venezuela tensions. But read alongside the new [...]]]>