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Against the Stream

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In Against the Stream, our weekly current affairs podcast, members of the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International sit down to discuss the main events shaping global affairs. In an increasingly turbulent world situation, these discussions look behind the headlines of the mainstream press and the statements of politicians, to bring out the real processes and interests at play.

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01:29:03

The war in Ukraine: setting the record straight

Against the Stream ·

2025/05/01

Since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine three years ago, a flood of lies has gushed forth from western governments and the billionaire press alike to obscure the real nature of this war.[Click here for a comprehensive reading list on the background to the Ukraine war: https://marxist.com/top-reads-on-the-ukraine-conflict-war-and-imperialism.htm]Painting it as a simple battle between good and evil, they have remained totally silent about the fact that behind Ukraine is the world's foremost

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01:19:54

The rise of China and the end of the American century

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2025/04/24

For the last century, the USA has been the undisputed master of the capitalist world. Now, all that is changing. Today, America is in decline and facing a new contender: China.Over the last 30 years, China has exploded from an underdeveloped country, exploited by western capitalists for its cheap labour, to a cutting-edge capitalist power in its own right. Today, it accounts for 18 percent of the world's GDP and 29 percent of the world’s manufacturing, and leads the world in some of the most

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02:01:50

Communists analyse the trade war: "the bosses will...

Against the Stream ·

2025/04/10

Articles mentioned:“I’ve seen many phoney trade wars come and go. This is the real thing”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/trade-war-donald-trump-us-china“‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting Started”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/business/china-manufacturing-exports-trump-tariffs.html“On the Question of Free Trade”https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/free-trade/index.htm“Trump’s tariff programme deepens protectionist tendencies in

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01:35:54

Trump's tariff war, France bans Le Pen and the PKK...

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2025/04/03

Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcements have set the cat amongst the pigeons in the world market. In France, the hypocritical establishment is celebrating the sentencing of right-wing demagogue Marine Le Pen in court on flimsy charges. Meanwhile in the Middle East, the leader of the PKK has called on its Kurdish guerilla fighters to lay down their arms.Globalisation is now rapidly unravelling, with tariffs threatening to dramatically tear up supply chains internationally. But any attempt by the

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01:41:03

Capitalism's horrors: reports from Ukraine and...

Against the Stream ·

2025/03/27

Articles mentioned:https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/17/otsyuda-vyhod-odin-trista-ili-dvestihttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-resumes-gaza-bombing-one-most-terrifying-nights-warhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/23/starmer-ukraine-peacekeeping-plan-political-theatre/https://marxist.com/netanyahu-resumes-genocide-to-cling-to-power-2.htm______In Gaza, Netanyahu has restarted the genocide. Already, hundreds have been killed by bombs, while thousands more are at risk of starvation. In

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01:24:49

What is Trumpism? – with Alan Woods

Against the Stream ·

2025/03/20

Trump’s dramatic return to the White House has thrown the liberals into complete panic and confusion. They have been accusing Trump of being responsible for every ill in the world, and have flung whatever insults they can at him: from semi-fascist, to fascist, to neo-fascist.Shamefully, the perennially alarmed so-called 'Lefts' are dragging like a tail behind the liberals, spreading the same confusion and falling into the old trap of 'lesser evilism'. Against this alarmism, which

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01:29:24

Tariffs, free trade or socialism: is there a way out...

Against the Stream ·

2025/03/13

The world capitalist system is beset on all sides by crisis. Debt is sky-high, economies are stagnating and society is more polarised than ever. To add to this mess, the tapestry of world relations – the ‘rules-based order’ – is unravelling. Tit-for-tat tariffs that seek to export the crisis threaten to turn into trade wars that will tear up world trade.The liberals see Trump as the wrecking ball causing the crisis. But is this true? By slashing the debt, raising tariffs and ditching the Ukraine

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01:39:19

Trump humiliates Zelensky, Europe rearms, general...

Against the Stream ·

2025/03/06

This week's row in the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky served to dramatically underscore the fact that we are passing a seismic shift in world history. The old alliances and institutions are breaking down, and a realignment, reflecting the changed balance of forces, is taking place for all to see.The biggest losers of this transformation are the Europeans, who are gradually sobering up to their predicament. Without the US – upon which they have been reliant for 80 years – they will have

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01:31:07

The German elections and the European madhouse

Against the Stream ·

2025/02/27

This week, after claiming victory in the German election, Friedrich Merz declared that Germany would now stand up to the USA, Russia and China and make the EU into a ‘great power’. Similarly, Keir Starmer declared that Britain would stand by Ukraine for 100 years and threatened to put British troops on the group as a ‘peacekeeping force’, while Macron travelled to the White House in a ‘show of strength’ to Trump. Clearly, the liberal European establishment has gone mad. In reality, Europe is facing

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01:29:36

US-Russia talks and the fall of Europe

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2025/02/20

This week, Trump went over the heads of Zelensky and the European leaders to embark on peace talks with Russia. At a stroke, the western order that has prevailed for over half a century has fractured.This has major implications for Europe in particular. For decades, Europe has based its policy on its partnership with the undisputed imperialist master of the planet: the USA. But Trump’s latest move expresses the fact that US imperialism no longer has a particular interest in subsidising the defence

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01:39:36

Trump dumps Ukraine, the future for Gaza, and class...

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2025/02/13

Lenin once said that there are decades where weeks happen, and weeks where decades happen. We are living through the latter. A new era has begun, one characterised by capitalist crisis, imperialist war, immense turbulence in world relations and revolutionary upheavals.On Against the Stream, the weekly current affairs podcast of the Revolutionary Communist International, Hamid Alizadeh and Fred Weston from the International Secretariat will be discussing the latest developments in the world crisis of

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01:07:01

Trump takes on the liberal world order

Against the Stream ·

2025/02/06

Trump has been in power for just over two weeks and already he has started to upend the liberal world order. With tariffs, deportations, the halting of all foreign aid, and his plan to turn Gaza into a “Rivera of the Middle East”, ‘allies’ and rivals alike have been thrown into panic. With breathtaking speed, the ‘rules-based order’ is being dynamited and destabilised, and the policy of ‘America First’ – and everyone else last – is coming into effect, with explosive and chaotic consequences for

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01:15:25

Storms gathering: a Marxist analysis of the world...

Against the Stream ·

2025/01/30

Storm clouds are gathering over the world economy. Already, it is faced with slowing growth, rising interest and inflation rates, and astronomical debts. Now Trump’s ‘America First’ policy and his promise of tariffs threaten to make all of that worse.As America wanes as the undisputed, dominant world power, the epoch of globalisation that it policed is coming to an end. Instead, an era of intense competition between hostile blocs of imperialist powers is opening up. All this cannot fail to have

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1:12:35

Is Trump a fascist? Where is America going?

Against the Stream ·

2025/01/23

This week’s episode of Against the Stream was recorded just days after Trump was inaugurated as US president. For some, this represents the triumph of fascism, a fear that was stoked by Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at the inauguration ceremony. However, as Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist […]

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1:12:19

‘America First’ – What does it mean? What next for...

Against the Stream ·

2025/01/16

With just days until Trump returns to power, Hamid Alizadeh and Jorge Martín from the International Secretariat of the Revolutionary Communist International met for another episode of Against the Stream to break down the news of the world from a Marxist perspective. This episode, they discussed the recent announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza. With […]

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1:06:40

Trump, Biden and the crisis of the American regime

Against the Stream ·

2025/01/09

With just two weeks before Trump re-enters the White House, the outgoing Democrats are doing everything they can to undermine the next president. In Ukraine in particular, where they fear a drastic change of course in the policy of US imperialism, they are funnelling in as much money as they can get away with, as […]

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1:28:50

Imperialists circling Syria, the Kurdish struggle,...

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2025/01/02

Defined by political crises all over the world, spiralling tensions between the imperialist powers, and revolutions in Bangladesh and Kenya, 2024 was an historic year in the crisis of the capitalist system. But now, with Trump days away from power, Ukraine headed unavoidably towards a humiliating and bloody defeat, and with no end in sight […]

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1:36:01

2024 Wrapped: a year of war and revolution

Against the Stream ·

2024/12/17

2024 has been a year of war, revolution and crisis on every continent. From the horrors of the Gaza genocide, to the revolutionary summer in Kenya and Bangladesh; from viral assassinations, to to the re-election of Donald Trump. The communists have been offering analysis and perspective at every step of the way, and now: it’s […]

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1:37:19

Assad regime falls, the Kurds under attack, Zelensky...

Against the Stream ·

2024/12/12

Once again, this week has been defined by sharp turns in world politics. In Syria, the Assad regime collapsed after a sudden offensive by Islamist groups, taking the whole world by surprise. In the US, the assassination of a US healthcare CEO was met with an enormous outpouring of sympathy for the killer, in a […]

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1:19:44

French government falls, Syrian Civil war reignites,...

Against the Stream ·

2024/12/05

This week has been full of sharp and sudden turns. The Syrian civil war has suddenly reignited due to the shock advance of a Turkey-backed rebel group. The French president was forced to resign after trying to force through an austerity budget. Joe Biden has used his last few weeks in power to pardon his […]

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