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Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 7 From the series Elections in the USA According to a February 13 th press release from the 5BORO Institute , a New York research centre, 42% of New Yorkers cite housing as their main economic challenge, and 78% say that housing costs have worsened in recent years. Democrat Zohran Mamdani's success in the recent New York City mayoral election was helped by his programme to tackle the issue of housing in the American metropolis. Voter abstention prevailed In 2020, New York had 8.8 million inhabitants, 7 million of whom were over the age of 18. Since about 85% of them are American citizens, it can be estimated that about 6 million were eligible to vote. To vote in the State of New York, you have to register, and in November there were 5.3 million registered voters in the city, 3.5 million of whom were Democrats. In this last mayoral election, two million people voted – about 33% of the el...

Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 6 From the series Pages from the history of the workers’ movement The role of soldiers in the German Revolution must also be considered from the perspective of the relative stability of the German State compared to the Russian one. Lenin emphasised this on several occasions: in Germany, bourgeois rule was much more firmly established than in Russia, because capitalism was more advanced and the State rested on stronger economic and social foundations. In Germany, therefore, the class party was confronted with the unprecedented task — which remains so even today — of seizing power in a mature imperialist metropolis. The German Revolution brought about the collapse of the Hohenzollern empire, but the rupture was accompanied by bourgeois forces safeguarding class dominance thanks to political forms more suited to the imperialist era. First among these forces was the Social Democratic ...

Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 5 President Vladimir Putin has spoken once again at the 22 nd Valdai Club Meeting, an important Russian discussion forum. In a long speech, he touched on many points, especially on the subject of foreign policy, focusing on the war in Ukraine and its consequences for international relations. A Russia proud of its armed forces , he warned, is closely monitoring the growing militarisation of Europe ; the warning is that Russia’s response to these threats will be highly convincing . An imperialist contention is underway around Ukraine, and every power is playing its cards. Russia and the world order Putin’s remarks, however, go beyond the wartime contingencies and point to something deeper , namely the world order. The thesis put forward is that in all fields—economic, strategic, cultural, and logistical— global balance cannot be built without Russia . As noted, this reflection took ...

Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 4 On September 26 th , The Hindu wrote: The global chessboard has shifted. Supply chains are in motion. China is repositioning capital. Southeast Asia is building alternative corridors. India is claiming a role in the Indo-Pacific equation, but its export architecture still rests on a few coastal enclaves . The newspaper, based in Chennai (Tamil Nadu), outlines Asian capital movements that show that India is lagging behind in the internationalisation of its key sectors. The four States of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka alone account for over 70% of all Indian goods exports, while the most populous States — Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh — remain on the sidelines, responsible for only 5% of foreign trade combined. In the Indian debate, the export of goods is treated as an index of the international competitiveness of States. This is tied to the difficulty of attracti...

Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Page 3 From the series European news In our analysis, we have considered how the most likely path to EU rearmament could be through the creation of a European pillar within NATO. Rather than a common deterrence signifying the supreme affirmation of the sovereignty of a continental State, it would probably involve the sharing of State sovereignty at European level, in the form of nuclear sharing. This assessment is confirmed by a significant French source. Nuclear backing In an October report by the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) , Emmanuelle Maître and Etienne Marcuz elaborate on the concrete prospects for cooperation between States to achieve European-scale deterrence. Together with the British system, they write, French nuclear deterrence forms the foundation of a true European pillar within NATO . The creation of a Franco-British Nuclear Steering Group with the Northwood Declaration ...

Internationalism No. 82, December 2025 Pages 1 and 2 Crisis in the World Order and Nuclear Rearmament August 1945: two atomic blasts – of uranium over Hiroshima and of plutonium over Nagasaki – resulted in more than 150,000 casualties. Another 200,000 would perish in the following five years, due to burns and long-term consequences of radiation exposure. The massacre also had a deliberate class dimension: American decision-makers chose to incinerate the two Japanese cities because of their factories, in order to break the morale of the Japanese working class. Coerced into forced labour, between 20,000 and 50,000 Korean workers also perished, becoming victims twice over: first of Japanese, and then of American imperialism. In the reckoning of the wars of the 20 th century, the nuclear holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not exceptional in terms of the scale of the massacre, if we consider the incen...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 16 We left off last month at the strange head of the pro-Palestine march, seized by Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer. Heirs to the colonial rule that carved up the Middle East in the early 20 th century, the French president and British prime minister have now become supporters of the recognition of a Palestinian State. They have aligned themselves with Bin Salman, and his double — or triple — game: while the Saudi prince negotiates his petrodollars with Washington for the Abraham Accords , he reassures Paris with a display of support for the Palestinian National Authority and, with Islamabad, he secures himself Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella. It has since become clear that France and Britain sought to insert themselves into the folds and gaps of the American peace plan — twenty points that London helped to formulate through the back-room bargaining between former prime minister Tony Blair and Jared Kushner,...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 14 From the series The world car battle Electrification of Everything – Accelerating Electrification is the title of a document by Siemens AG. For the German electric group, electrification is the necessary step to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The global grid According to the International Energy Agency, electrification means replacing technologies or processes that use fossil fuels, like internal combustion engines and gas boilers, with electrically-powered equivalents, such as electric vehicles or heat pumps . These replacements are typically more efficient, reducing energy demand, and have a growing impact on emissions as electricity generation is decarbonised. The grid is a single integrated mechanism of continental dimensions, owned by dozens of different companies and managed by operators who balance thousands of producers with different energy sources in real-time. A new electrical devic...