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The meeting underscores what a segment of the global left denies: the Trump-Xi Jinping summit is a meeting between the world’s two leading imperialist powers. And this is far more significant than Trump’s last visit, during his first term.

Every year on May 1st, International Workers' Day is observed around the world. It is not merely a holiday to respect labor; rather, it is a day of remembrance of struggle and revolutionary resolve – the bloodiest chapter in the working class's struggle against the capitalist system. Pakistan is a textbook example of capitalist exploitation. The conditions of the working class here are barbaric.

It had been only a few months back that the contract workers of Indian Oil Company had revolted in a wildcat strike. They were protesting the conditions of work for contract workers. The uprising inspired petro chemical workers in Surat where the same conditions were replicated. Now, the fire spreads from Panipat in Haryana to the streets of Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Noida is the so-called Millenium city of India, a poster child for neo-liberal growth. The militant protests of workers have made non-sense of this illusion of neo-liberal capitalist development.

Pakistan’s role as an international mediator is not a sign of structural change, but a reconfiguration within the same system. The state uses its geographic position to enhance its relevance among competing global powers while managing internal instability. This external role is transformed into an ideological narrative domestically. State media and official discourse present Pakistan as an emerging global actor and an indispensable force for peace. At a time when the population faces inflation, unemployment, and severe economic pressure alongside repression, this narrative functions as a substitute form of hope—that international recognition is improving and future conditions will become better.

As Afghanistan and Pakistan slip into war, nationalism now dominates political discourse. The Pakistani elite accuses Afghan leadership of harboring terrorism, while Afghan authorities speak of sovereignty. Yet on both sides, structural violence is ignored: unemployment, extremely weak public services (education and health sectors among the lowest state expenditures), and militarized politics that channel vast resources into destruction instead of social investment.

The protests stands as one of the largest single action by workers anywhere in India. These are contract workers, many of whom come from rural regions of Bihar and North India, they come for a better life to Haryana. Their labour built up one of India’s fastest growing industrial regions. Yet, for their sacrifices, they aren’t given the basic respect of a regular pay.

There has been a general strike almost every year since the year 2010, yet the Indian capitalist class has grown only bolder in its attacks on the working class. It is important to understand why this contradiction exists, and to understand the general strike in context.

The 19th of February 2026 would mark the 80th anniversary of the naval mutiny, the event which shook the British Raj to its core and made British rule in India impossible. The uprising of the mutinying naval ratings of the British Indian Navy was not one isolated incident, it was the culmination of the rising class consciousness of the people of India, and it was the culmination of the growth of class struggle in British India.

Pakistan's participation in the US-led "War on Terror" has only resulted in more terrorism in Pakistan as the state itself becomes more and more violent

Reducing the Balochistan attacks this month to mere “security failures” or blaming them solely on “foreign conspiracies” is not only superficial but deliberately misleading. Violence in Balochistan did not emerge in a vacuum. It is the direct outcome of a colonial, class-based, and authoritarian state structure imposed on the region for decades.

As a new world order emerges, the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterranean is in flux, and the Erdoğan regime in Turkiye is retrenching its authoritarianism.

The assassination of Osman Hadi and other youth leaders of the July movement are accompanied by the strengthening of Islamist and reactionary forces in Bangladesh.

The region comprising the Chotanagpur plateau and Eastern Ghats accounts for the most mineral rich region of India. For centuries, this region remained dominated by autonomous tribal communities. Today, private domestic capital has stepped in where the British once ruled to accelerate the exploitation of these peoples

A service as essential as travel and transit cannot be left over to profit. At the core of capitalist thinking is the commodity. Everything is reduced to the logic of being a commodity, everything is seen through the lens of profitability, to see how much money it can make the capitalist. This logic ruins transit.

Today's Sino-Japanese conflict isn't the result of some irreconcilable hatred or a rehashing of historical grivances: it is a crisis of imperialism and global capitalism.

While the US is still the most powerful imperialist nation, China's growth into an imperialist rival is of major global relevance. The imperialist dynamics of its economy are critical to understanding the international geopolitical balance of power, but even beyond that represent a faction of the capitalist class that exploits workers where it has influence and which must be organized against.