United Nations

At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.

Since returning to office, Trump has made clear his intentions of ushering in a new Golden Age of imperialism. With NATO at his disposal, what will this new hyper-imperialism mean for the rest of the…

As progressive governments take office in the Global South, now more than ever there is a burning need for a new development theory that can fulfil the Promethean aspirations of the darker nations.

Recent indications suggest that NATO may permit Ukraine to use Western-provided missiles to strike Russian territory. This would mark a serious escalation of the conflict.

Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have…

Apartheid, occupation, and genocide are at the heart of the situation in Gaza – despite the baseless claim of Israel and its Global North allies that the use of these terms is tantamount to anti-Semitism.

Amid the intensifying water crisis that plagues billions of people across the world, Israel is using water as a weapon in its war against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.

8 March was not always International Women’s Day, nor has such a day always existed. This date became fixed to our calendars through decades of struggle – led by communist women.

The final months of 2023 have pierced our sense of hope as Israel escalates its Permanent Nakba, with more than twenty thousand Palestinians killed since 7 October. Meanwhile, the COP28 summit on climate change continued…

At its fifteenth summit in August 2023, BRICS raised the question of reforming the United Nations, particularly its security council, urging the expansion of the council’s permanent membership to include countries from Africa, Asia, and…

The BRICS project is centred around the question of whether developing countries can break out of the neo-colonial system through mutual trade and cooperation, or whether the larger countries will inevitably enjoy asymmetries of power…

The United Nations has published A New Agenda for Peace, which declares that ‘we are now at an inflection point. The post-Cold War period is over. A transition is under way to a new global…