Marxist, XLI, 4, October–December 2025
The current issue of Marxist deals with certain important features of the global geo-political situation.
First is the National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025 of the United States, announced by the Trump administration. R. Arun Kumar analyses the NSS and its prioritising of US dominance in the Western Hemisphere. He places the recent blatant act of aggression against Venezuela and the interventions to prop up right wing regimes in South America within this framework. The NSS should be seen as the Trump administration’s response to the challenge of declining hegemonic power and its efforts to protect US hegemony in the face of a growing multi-polar world.
The second and related theme is the rivalry and confrontation between the United States and China. Rising power of China directly challenges the United States in the economic and technological spheres. Bappa Sinha has made an illuminating study of the struggle between the US and China on the technology front. Spelling out the remarkable advances made by China in technology, he writes, “At stake is not only US primacy, but the viability of technological monopoly as the foundation of contemporary imperialism”.
The third theme pertains to US-India strategic ties in which the core has been the defence relationship. D. Raghunandan has dealt with the difficulties in the latest phase of India-US strategic relations. After Trump assumed the presidency, he has taken hostile steps against India by the imposition of high tariffs, restrictions on visas and a lessened interest in the ‘Indo-Pacific strategy’ to which India had joined up. The record of defence acquisition and co-production plans have shown up the limitations for India. The Modi government had put all its strategic eggs in the US basket; it now finds itself in an unenviable position where dependence on the United States is shutting the options for exercising strategic autonomy.
In the Documents section, we are publishing extracts from the Thesis of the Central Committee for the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). The extracts analyse the current economic and political situation in Greece in the context of the Greek bourgeoisie’s aggressive efforts to promote its strategic interests independently and through the imperialist alliances of NATO and the European Union. It sets out the KKE’s anti-systemic stance and the development of class struggle by the concentration of forces in an anti-capitalist and anti-monopoly direction.