Samir Amin

Dear comrades, Dear activists, Dear workers,

Introduction

Marx is a giant thinker, not for the 19th century, but even more for understanding our contemporary time. No other attempt to develop an understanding of society has been as fertile.

Marx is a giant thinker, not for the 19th century, but even more for understanding our contemporary time. No other attempt to develop an understanding of society has been as fertile.

1. The financial facets of globalisation

1. The recent election of Donald Trump after Brexit, the rise of fascist parties in Europe, but also and much better, Syriza's electoral victory and the rise of Podemos, are all manifestations of the depth of the crisis of the system of globalized neoliberalism.

Today, in the globalized neoliberal system (which I prefer to call ordo-liberal, borrowing this excellent term from Bruno Ogent) dominated by financialised monopolies of the imperialist triad (United States, Europe, Japan), the political authorities in charge of the management of the system for t

A French reporter (Ursula Gauthier) has recently been expelled from China for her criticism of the policies pursued by China in Xin Jiang, a vast region of deserts and mountains in the north of the country occupied by several ethnic minorities.

Twenty years later full light has not been thrown on the shooting down of the plane of then President of Rwanda, Habyarimana. The event was immediately followed by the genocide of the Tutsis by Hutu militias.

1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centres of imperialism (US, Western and central Europe, Japan (called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control over the Planet through a combination of: