Western leaders like Macron and Starmer have been blindsided by last week’s Oval Office clash, which came after weeks of slavishly courting Trump’s favour. In this article, Alan Woods analyses the seismic shifts in world relations which led to this event.

Last Friday, an unprecedented argument took place in the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky in front of the world’s media. The event exposed the real relations between the two countries, one between master and servant. Jorge Martín here examines the event and its implications.

The CDU’s Friedrich Merz will be Germany’s next Chancellor. But with geopolitical and economic turmoil ahead, the next government will be even more unstable and discredited than than the last. Polarisation and class struggle are on the order of the day.