Janette Zahia Corcelius, a trade-union organizer from Minneapolis, visited Paris on two occasions this spring. First, in April, as member of a delegation speaking in a tour organized by on the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign. Then in early June to speak at an anti-fascist festival. On her first visit she spoke to Raphaël Alberto for the l’Anticapitaliste you tube channel (published in French « Face à Trump, nous devons protéger nos voisinEs, défendre nos droits démocratiques et (…)
UAW: Mixed Reform Results
13 July, byTHIS SPRING DELEGATES were elected to the United Auto Workers Constitutional Convention that will be held in mid-June. As the UAW website notes, the convention will “make critical decisions, including constitutional amendments and resolutions on workplace and social issues.”
Heatwave Reflections: We Won’t Return to the World Before, But We Still Have the Possibility of Living, and Living Well
22 June, byAs Europe endures its second spring heatwave of the year, the established powers are not confronting capital’s grip on energy, finance, and agriculture — they are tightening it. Daniel Tanuro, Belgian ecosocialist and author of The Impossibility of Green Capitalism, argues that what is happening is not accidental but systemic: fossil investment grows, G7 leaders congratulate climate deniers, and even the European Commission dismantles its own inadequate green measures. The Holocene is over; (…)
Anti-militarism that forgets those under attack is no anti-militarism at all
17 June, by“Against the arms race as a profit-making machine. Against turning a blind eye to Russian imperialism. For a left-wing peace policy that integrates self-defense and social control. No weapons for profit, but weapons for those under attack. Peace means an end to aggression”
Two Fronts: How Russia and the Ukrainian State Pressured Civil Society in 2025
17 June, by“This review draws on ZMINA’s findings while situating them within the broader picture documented by Ukraine’s democratic socialist left — the movements fighting since 2022 on two fronts simultaneously: against Russian recolonisation and against the neoliberal state and far-right at home.”
Global profits: an upward turn?
17 June, byAt the end of 2025, corporate profits in the major economies accelerated after stagnating in 2024. The global figure below is calculated from a weighted (by GDP) average of profits in the US, UK, Japan, Germany and China (taken from national accounts and in national currencies).
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 and the Footfalls of Fascism - A Balance Sheet
9 June, byThe 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all-India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India’s TV channels and much of the print media owned by a small number of houses all aligned with dominant capitalist groups that support the Modi government, the predictions had been for a massive BJP and NDA sweep. Some Exit Polls even gave them close to 400 seats in the 543 member parliament. In reality the BJP won 240 seats, less than a majority, and even with all its allies it had just 293 seats. It was evident that the fascist chariot was slowing down.
War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
8 June, by ,Vladimir Putin’s regime is beginning to show signs of frailty amidst its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Kyiv has fought the regime to a standoff, Russia’s casualties mount to about 1.2 million dead and wounded, and Russia’s economy, despite the temporary sugar rush of increased oil prices, faces mounting problems. Here Tempest’s Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
Anticolonial fraud: The Kremlin in Africa
8 June, byThe Kremlin is exploiting anti-imperialist sentiment in Africa to advance its own imperial ambitions.
The 1926 General Strike in Britain
8 June, by ,This 1976 pamphlet first appeared as a series of articles in the Workers News, a fortnightly journal of socialist news and analysis.
