The crew of Artemis II will not land on the Moon. But the launch has fired the starter’s gun for a scramble that will play out over the next decades as the US and China compete to be master of the universe.
Imperialist nations have always been divided into classes, pitting workers and their capitalist rulers into an antagonistic relationship: one class can gain only at the other’s expense.
Resistance to US President Donald Trump’s murderous deportation regime has deepened ahead of a planned citywide day of action this Friday in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We have become accustomed to referring to postwar periods: the post-Second World War era, the post-Vietnam era, the post-Cold War era. But we have potentially entered a new and dangerous prewar era of intense superpower jockeying in which bloc politics returns to the fore.