While PSOL hovers below 5% and Bolsonarism maintains 30% of the country, the anti-capitalist left cannot afford to be 'the most radical in the room'.

If the best of the new global left embraces a new camp, now of unconditional alignment with the Chinese state, the consequences will be terrible.

The US under Trump has a new strategy for preserving hegemony in the international system of states. It is a brutal counter-offensive.

The messenger must study the audience he is addressing and assess the correlation of forces. This is why many speakers fear speaking first, and rightly so.

For Marxist currents that rejected the hypothesis of a gradualist transition, the theoretical problem remained.

'There are three wrong explanations for Guilherme Boulos' defeat,' writes columnist Valério Arcary.

"The US has no political or moral authority whatsoever to denounce the Venezuelan regime as a dictatorship."

The lack of leadership in the Democratic Party and the dominance of the far right in the Republican Party represent a new moment in the crisis of American imperialism.

There is greater loyalty to Lula's ideology among the poor, and greater consolidation of reactionary ideology among the middle class—a historical reversal.

'The left, while maintaining its positions, has lost hegemony over its original mass social base,' writes columnist Valerio Arcary.

"The worst mistake the left can make is to underestimate the impact of the neo-fascist counter-offensive," states columnist Valerio Arcary.