François Sabado reflects on “The Left: a fundamental historical ambiguity”, Kim Moody argues “Workers will fight for their self-interest”, Eduardo Lucita examines “The governments of the new right and Trumpism in Latin America”, while Angela Klein considers “To what extent is the AfD fascist?”.
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- 7 October – Strategic thinking
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Britain
Burnham – the resilience of Labourism
7 October, byLabour leader Andy Burnham made his first leader’s speech to Labour Party conference on 29 September 2026. It was warmly received. Following this Dave Kellaway discusses how there is still some life left in ’Old Labour’ policies.
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Some organisations and individual commentators in the movement define Andy Burnham as ‘Starmer continuity’, ‘Starmer 2.0’ or use the phrase ‘new boss same as the old boss’. His conference speech and actions since taking office shows that this sort of analysis is (…) -
Spanish state
Class, the protests: Notes on the social explosion over housing
6 October, by ,“The social tension that housing introduces into the lives of the majority has become political tension thanks to the successful intervention of the Tenants’ Union, the eviction of Maricarmen as a foundational event and the pressure in the street. Today, Spanish politics is inevitably moving towards another moment and the vote in Congress is a step in that transition.”
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USA
Latinos May Decide the Midterms, Defeating Trump and the Republicans
5 October, byDonald Trump arguably won the 2024 presidential election because between 42 and 48 percent of the country’s Latinos voted for him. His was the largest Republican share ever of the Latino vote. In the last two years, however, Latinos have turned against Trump, as seen both in their participation in social protests and in pre-election polls. Latinos could cost Trump and the Republicans the election.
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Morocco
Morocco’s Elections in a Time of Despotism: Why Ballot Boxes Don’t Produce Liberation
4 October, by“Today, I believe that Morocco is experiencing a form of political insanity in the Einsteinian sense. The elections on September 23 showcased the same familiar faces that have worn thin on the Moroccan public, accompanied by the same broken promises and poorly executed theatrics. Furthermore, it is the Ministry of the Interior that oversees the entire electoral process—from drawing constituency maps to organising the vote itself. ”
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Environment
NATO, the climate crisis and the ecosocialist emergency
3 October, byGippo Mukendi Ngandu, a member of the leadership of the Fourth International, spoke at the anti-imperialist conference NoToNATO to present the links between war and the climate crisis, and to propose the answers put forward in our Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution.
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Strategy
Workers will fight for their self-interest
7 October, byread article...“Socialism is the rule of the working class. Planning is an instrument of the democratic workers’ state for organizing production for human need under its collective political and social rule and the transition to a classless society.”
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Latin America
The governments of the new right and Trumpism in Latin America
7 October, byread article...Perhaps paraphrasing Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, when they described the revolutionary process that swept through Europe at the end of the 1940s as a spectre, we could describe the counter-revolutionary cycle that is sweeping through Our America in these 2020s as a phantom, albeit of the opposite kind .
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Strategy
The Left: a fundamental historical ambiguity
5 October, byread article...The notion of the Left contains a dual dimension. For more than a century, both its opponents and its supporters have agreed in describing the Left as the “party of movement,” the natural gathering place of “all progressive forces” and all advocates of “change.”
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Germany
To what extent is the AfD fascist?
5 October, byread article...The attempt to ostracise the AfD has failed.
