Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet.

Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.

A study came out in December that made me cry.

With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle; may it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken.

The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of ‘corruption’ to underdevelop the Global South, whose social wealth it instead injects into the Continent of Sleaze.

With Chad and Senegal joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in demanding the withdrawal of the French military from their countries, a surge of sovereignty continues to ripple across the Sahel.

As the International Criminal Court finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the United States confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’–a right that is intimately tied to liberalism–cultivates a politics of anger.

Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania.

The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must not deepen the pockets of the rich and fuel the engines of war, but fill the bellies of the many.

As a renewed Bandung Spirit emerges in the world, we must understand the Global South from its own dynamics and not merely in relation to the West.

Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.

Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians.

Tings Chak and Vijay Prashad take stock of seventy-five years of the Chinese Revolution.

The antidote to the mental health crisis lies in re-building our societies, moving away from capitalism’s culture of hostility towards a culture of connection and community.

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.

In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.

Daniel Jadue, a member of the Communist Party of Chile and the former mayor of Recoleta, was released after being held in preventative detention for 91 days.

No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.