Redlines: April 17, 2025

Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, settler empire, and technofascist recalibration.

Africa

Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs?

Zimbabwe’s leadership is bending over backwards to win U.S. approval—reimbursing white settler farmers and lifting trade protections. But this isn’t reconciliation; it’s neo-colonial obedience. The comprador class hopes Washington will throw them a bone. Meanwhile, Black farmers still wait for land reform, and the working class foots the bill for technofascist appeasement.

Trump’s Africa Policy: Guns, Deals, and PR

The Trump regime’s return to Africa is a hostile merger of military contracts, privatized diplomacy, and old-fashioned settler paternalism. No talk of development, just dominance. Africa’s ruling elites play along for arms and access, while the continent is refashioned as a staging ground for U.S.-China war games and Yankee finance capital’s last big play.

Russia Rising in Africa’s Sahel: Europe Panics

As the Sahel breaks from its colonial tether and warms to Russian overtures, Europe is scrambling to reassert its imperial grip. The panic isn’t about peace or people—it’s about profits and positioning. The West doesn’t fear Russia’s presence; it fears Africa making choices outside the imperial script.

Asia

China Worries About Resource Dependence as U.S. Pressures Mount

China’s technocrats are nervous. They’ve built an industrial engine fueled by African resources, but now face U.S. blockades and economic sabotage. The empire strikes back—not with tanks, but with tariffs and trade chokeholds. The South-South dream runs headfirst into the realpolitik of global monopoly capital.

Japan Pushes Back on Trump Tariffs

Trump’s economic warpath now stretches to Japan. Beneath the trade talk is the familiar script: use tariffs to bully allies, force concessions, and consolidate technofascist control over global supply chains. Japan plays along to protect its exports, but the contradictions are piling up fast.

Solar Tariffs Set to Burn Consumers

U.S. solar imports from China now face the technofascist guillotine. Trump’s tariffs aren’t about protecting American workers—they’re about punishing China, raising costs for ordinary people, and feeding defense contractors. The transition to green energy is being weaponized by empire. Again.

Middle East

Gantz Calls for Coordinated Strikes on Iran

Israeli officials, backed by the U.S., want to bomb their way to regional dominance. Gantz’s call to “change the Middle East” is settler code for destruction—using nukes as pretext, just like WMDs in Iraq. It’s the same imperialist playbook, dressed up as defense.

Syria Crushes Coup Attempt

Syria’s Assad regime just snuffed out another coup plot, this time from within. The imperial media will cry dictatorship, but make no mistake—this is a tug-of-war between counterrevolution and imperial-sponsored disruption. Syria remains a frontline in the global war for multipolarity.

China and Egypt Conduct Joint Air Drills

Chinese jets flying with Egyptian pilots over Arab skies. That’s not just symbolism—it’s a signal. The multipolar world is flexing, and the old empire doesn’t like it. This is strategic deterrence, wrapped in drills, and it’s part of a long-overdue recalibration of power in the region.

Latin America & Caribbean

Ecuador’s Electoral Scandal Unfolds

Luisa González lifts the veil on electoral fraud. Washington’s fingerprints are all over this one—another soft coup in the making. Latin America’s left resurges, and the empire responds with ballot manipulation instead of bullets. But it’s the same counterinsurgency war.

Panama Defends Canal Sovereignty

Panama tells both Washington and Beijing to back off. For once, a small country flexes its sovereignty and rejects the colonial framing. The canal’s not just a chokepoint—it’s a symbol of whether the Global South gets to chart its own path, or remain a pawn in imperial chess.

Brazil Opens Rare Earth Mines, Shakes Up Global Market

Brazil’s rare earth move is bigger than minerals—it’s a geopolitical earthquake. Beijing’s monopoly is now contested, not by the U.S., but by a BRICS partner. The struggle for control over 21st-century resources intensifies, and Brazil just entered the ring swinging.

Europe

Trump Allies Tire of Europe’s Ukraine Policy

Cracks in the Western front. Trump’s team is tired of footing NATO’s war bill while Europe plays peacemaker. The contradiction is clear—imperialist unity was always a mirage, and Ukraine is exposing the fragility of Western power projection.

Europe Resists U.S. Pressure to Unite Against China

Le Monde reports what we already knew: Europe is reluctant to fully sign up for America’s anti-China crusade. It’s not moral clarity, it’s material interests. But even this hesitation reveals that the unipolar order is fractured beyond repair.

Europe’s Steel Industry Buckles

The crisis of overproduction has returned, and Europe’s industrial base is cracking. The capitalist center can no longer sustain its own labor aristocracy—leaving workers in the cold while the bourgeoisie bets everything on AI and arms.

North America

China Turns to Canada for Oil

The trade war backfires again. China moves around U.S. restrictions with ease—while U.S. workers see jobs, costs, and alliances deteriorate. Trump’s economic nationalism isn’t strategy, it’s sabotage—one that weakens the empire more than it strengthens it.

Tomato Tariffs Hit Mexican Producers

Food as a weapon—21% tariffs on Mexican tomatoes show how deep the technofascist war on migrants and farmers runs. It’s not about trade fairness; it’s about border militarization through economic means.

The Disintegration of North America

The NAFTA dream is dead. FPIF charts the unraveling of North American economic unity, as nationalism replaces regionalism and technofascism replaces diplomacy. The real losers? The working classes on all three sides of the border.

United States

Trump Threatens to Fire Fed Chair Powell

Trump wants to fire the Fed chief like it’s a reality show. Central bank independence? That’s gone. This is class warfare, MAGA-style—undermining even the illusion of a rules-based system to consolidate full-spectrum executive control over the economy.

SpaceX Set to Build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is now leading construction of a national missile shield. Defense policy is privatized. The line between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon is gone. This is the military-industrial-tech-complex in full bloom—an empire run by apps and rockets.

U.S. Recession Risk Soars as Tariffs Hit

Trump’s tariff rampage is sinking the economy. Recession risk just jumped to 45%, and that’s just the start. This is the boomerang effect of technofascism—using policy tools as political weapons and crashing the very system they claim to protect.

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