Redlines Report | April 24, 2025
Daily revolutionary dispatches from the frontlines of global class war, settler empire, and technofascist recalibration.
Africa
Ethiopia set to become 4th African member of BRICS’ New Development Bank
As Ethiopia joins the BRICS’ New Development Bank, a tremor runs through the brittle bones of Bretton Woods. This isn’t just Addis Ababa cashing a different check—it’s Africa nudging itself out of the IMF chokehold and into a multipolar matrix where development isn’t defined by austerity and debt peonage. But let’s not romanticize: BRICS is no red star. Still, it opens a flank in the siege wall of hyper-imperialism, and for a continent so long looted, even a crack is a lifeline.
Ukraine leader’s visit to South Africa marks diplomatic shift
Zelenskyy’s charm offensive in South Africa reeks of desperation. The Global South ain’t buying NATO’s PR package—especially not when Gaza bleeds and Libya still reels from Euro-American saviorism. Ukraine’s regime wants the colonial world to chant for ‘freedom’ while Washington re-arms apartheid in Israel. The contradictions aren’t subtle. And South Africa, with its liberation credentials, knows this dance all too well.
South Africa’s VAT decision: Genuine relief or a mere illusion?
A slight VAT reprieve in South Africa is being spun as ‘relief,’ but the people aren’t fooled. It’s the neoliberal equivalent of crumbs from the master’s table. This is not economic justice—it’s a sedative, a technocratic placebo. The real contradiction isn’t fiscal; it’s colonial. Until production and land are under public control, tax tweaks are just theater in the imperial circus.
Asia
China’s ‘involution trap’ hurting nation’s competitiveness, state media warns
The so-called ‘involution trap’ is Beijing’s way of saying late capitalism has a Chinese dialect. Overwork, undercompensation, and burnout are being baked into the world’s second-largest economy as it tries to outpace collapse. The contradiction here isn’t ‘too much competition’—it’s the impossible logic of capital accumulation itself. The trap isn’t Chinese—it’s capitalist. And it’s not a glitch; it’s a feature.
Kashmir attack: Does India’s Indus Waters Treaty freeze threaten Pakistan?
Weaponizing water flows between two nuclear powers is the kind of brinksmanship only possible under the watchful gaze of empire. Kashmir is a decades-long open wound—a site of colonial leftovers and neocolonial ambitions. When India halts the Indus Waters Treaty, it’s not just a geopolitical flex; it’s counterinsurgency by pipeline. Hydropolitics meets colonial partition. And the U.S., ever the opportunist, watches to see how it can monetize the fallout.
China’s investments in Southeast Asia snarl US plans on supply chains
Washington’s dream of reengineering supply chains without China is being slowly dismembered by reality. Chinese capital isn’t just surviving—it’s relocating, adapting, deepening its foothold across Southeast Asia. The fantasy of Cold War 2.0-style decoupling ignores the basic logic of capital flows and imperial dependency. What’s unravelling isn’t just U.S. logistics—it’s the credibility of U.S. technofascist globalization schemes.
Europe
WEF launches investigation into founder Klaus Schwab
The Davos crowd has turned on its high priest. Klaus Schwab, technocrat of technocrats, is under investigation by his own cathedral of capital. It’s not about justice—it’s about succession. The WEF has long functioned as the boardroom of hyper-imperialism, where billionaires cosplay as visionaries. Schwab helped shape the gospel of stakeholder capitalism: a velvet-gloved form of monopoly capital with a digital leash. Now, as the empire recalibrates, it sheds its old prophets like snakeskin.
NATO troops in Ukraine would mean WWIII – Russia
NATO’s creeping escalation in Ukraine is a powder keg built on broken treaties and imperial arrogance. Russia’s warning isn’t empty—it’s historically grounded. Remember Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq. The West cloaks its provocations in democracy talk while laying the groundwork for global war. Ukraine is no longer a conflict—it’s a crucible where the contradictions of capitalist expansionism meet their violent limits.
US won’t guarantee European security alone – Hegseth
The Yankee faction is tired of footing Europe’s defense bill. As the U.S. pivots to Asia and internal decay deepens, it wants its vassals to pay tribute or perish. This isn’t ‘burden-sharing’—it’s imperial accounting. What we’re witnessing is the unraveling of NATO’s internal cohesion under the weight of late-stage monopoly capital. Hegseth’s comments are less strategy than threat: pony up, or we let the Russian bear in the back door.
Middle East
Houthis shoot growing number of US drones
The Houthis aren’t just downing drones—they’re shredding the myth of U.S. invincibility. Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, is humiliating the most militarized empire in history. Every drone that falls is a blow to technofascism’s faith in automation as a tool of global discipline. This is asymmetrical resistance—guerrilla defiance with a heat-seeker edge. And the Pentagon? Still playing Xbox in the desert.
‘No mercy’: Israel keeps blocking aid amid systematic destruction of Gaza
The Zionist project is no longer even pretending. This is not war—it’s extermination. The apartheid regime has shifted from occupation to outright annihilation, with Western media laundering it as ‘security.’ Gaza is not just a target—it’s a test site for settler colonial counterinsurgency. And every aid truck blocked is an act of imperial sadism, not oversight. The West’s silence is complicity—loud, proud, genocidal.
Iran elected to chair 21st SCO judicial summit in 2026
Iran chairing the SCO judicial summit is a slap in the face to the so-called ‘rules-based international order.’ The empire’s pariah is now hosting the forums that rewrite global governance outside Western dictates. This isn’t just diplomatic shade—it’s multipolar lawfare. The clerics in Tehran are doing what Harvard grads in Foggy Bottom can’t stomach: building sovereign institutions not beholden to Wall Street or Langley.
Latin America & the Caribbean
World Bank cuts Latin America and Caribbean growth view, highlights uncertainties
The World Bank wrings its hands about ‘uncertainty’ in Latin America, but the real uncertainty is for U.S. imperialism. As more governments turn toward BRICS, regional integration, and national sovereignty, the old institutions of imperial finance are losing grip. Growth is down, yes—but so is obedience. Behind the numbers lies a rebellion against structural adjustment and neoliberal dependency. That’s the threat Washington’s bean counters are really forecasting.
Venezuela begins using the Russian GLONASS navigation system
Caracas flipping the switch to GLONASS isn’t just about satellites—it’s about sovereignty. When Venezuela aligns with Russia’s tech infrastructure, it signals more than partnership: it’s resistance to digital colonialism. No longer tethered to U.S. GPS systems, Venezuela is carving a technological route out of the empire’s orbit. Navigation, like currency and information, is now a front in the war against U.S. hegemony.
Haiti: Revolution, Debt, and the Making of the Modern World
Haiti’s unpayable debt to France was the world’s first IMF loan—before the IMF existed. The Haitian Revolution shattered the plantation economy, so the colonizers invented a new tool: financial strangulation. Today, Haiti remains a laboratory of imperial punishment, where freedom is met with embargo, occupation, and NGO occupation. But the spirit of 1804 refuses to die. And the tricontinental analysis doesn’t just retell this history—it weaponizes it for the next rebellion.
North America
Canada election: Carney enters race as anti-Trump figure, Poilievre surges
Canada’s bourgeois electoral theatre is now marketing itself as an anti-Trump redemption arc. Mark Carney, banker par excellence, wants to sell the empire’s northern branch as the sane alternative. But don’t be fooled. Carney isn’t a break from Trumpism—he’s its liberal twin. Finance capital wears many masks, but the hand on the lever remains the same. And Poilievre? Just a more openly cynical custodian of the same settler state.
China, Mexico, Canada bear brunt of US tariffs – IMF
The IMF, mouthpiece of the empire, finally admits it: U.S. tariffs are economic warfare dressed up as ‘policy.’ And as usual, the targets are strategic. Mexico is being punished for resisting border militarization; China for refusing submission; Canada for occasionally questioning the empire’s demands. Protectionism isn’t about jobs—it’s about geopolitical compliance. Tariffs are the Cowboy faction’s economic bayonets.
Trump’s trade war boosts growth outlook at Mexico shipping firms
In an ironic twist, Mexico’s shipping industry is profiting off Trump’s chaotic trade policies. But don’t mistake growth for liberation. This is the extractive zone adapting to imperial turbulence, not transcending it. The border economy is still shaped by imperialist needs—cheap labor, fast logistics, and proximity to the empire’s belly. The shipping boom is real—but so is the continued dependency.
United States
Elon Musk says Tesla’s Chinese-made Optimus robot magnets not for military use
Musk’s denial that Tesla’s Optimus robots could be militarized is about as believable as Reagan’s ‘we don’t trade arms for hostages.’ The Digerati class is built on lies and lithium, and Musk is its pope. Whether the magnets come from Xinjiang or Mars, what matters is this: Optimus is part of the automation armory of technofascism. These robots won’t free labor—they’ll help suppress it. Welcome to the AI police state, now in beta testing.
Trump’s cabinet ready to ‘take back power’ with Musk stepping back – sources say
The technofascist hydra now rotates heads—Musk steps back, but the project lurches forward. Trump’s cabinet is not a government—it’s a war room for capital in crisis. As the Yankees, Cowboys, and Digerati shuffle positions, the machinery of repression and looting remains intact. ‘Taking back power’ here doesn’t mean democracy—it means doubling down on counterinsurgency at home and hyper-imperialism abroad.
Americans sour on Trump’s handling of economy – Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Discontent simmers as the working class gets squeezed under inflation, deregulation, and tech monopolies run wild. But souring on Trump doesn’t mean clarity. Many are just demanding a more competent manager of imperial capitalism—not an end to it. That’s the trap. The real enemy isn’t just Trump—it’s the bipartisan system that gorges on Wall Street money while feeding workers austerity and false choices.
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