Israel has a vested interest in keeping Syria weak and fragmented, especially now that the people can openly show support for Palestine, says Joseph Daher.
HTS must reject Assad-era neoliberalism
21 March 2025, by Joseph DaherThe fall of Assad in December 2024 raised hopes for a brighter future in Syria. But as the country looks to rebuild its economy, enormous challenges remain.
So-called axis of resistance
9 March 2025, by Joseph DaherJoseph Daher discusses regional and multipolar imperialism, the limits of Iranian resistance, and the international path toward Palestinian liberation.
Austerity or Raising the Minimum Wage: Catarina Martins on Portugal’s Experience
9 March 2025, by Catarina Martins, Denys PilashCatarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2024 European election and sits in the Left group in the European Parliament — GUE/NGL. Catariana has a training in linguistics and a theatre occupation.
The challenge of broad left parties in 2025
3 March 2025, by Cian PrendivilleThe 2008 crash and resulting politicisation saw the rise of broad left parties in many countries. However in most cases, this wave has crashed, and the tide has turned, posing new challenges for these projects and for revolutionaries operating within them. In this opinion piece, Cian Prendiville reflects on these questions and attempts to plot a way forward.
Why I am rejoining Solidarity and some thoughts on the future
3 March 2025, by Paul Le BlancA longtime friend, with whom I share a mutual respect, recently sent me an email regarding my decision to rejoin Solidarity.* What follows are the texts (slightly edited) of a two-part answer to him, and then my replies to a couple of emails he sent in response.
To save the environment, we must end the profit system
3 March 2025, by Ian AngusA Portuguese translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, was published in Brazil in 2023. I was subsequently interviewed by Claudia Antunes for the multilingual magazine SUMAÚMA, a radical environmental journal that takes its name from one of the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest. SUMAÚMA published the interview in September 2024. This lightly edited version was published in Monthly Review in January 2025.—Ian Angus
In Sri Lanka, the new government’s policy: a lost historic opportunity
19 February 2025, by Éric ToussaintÉric Toussaint looks back at the situation in Sri Lanka since 2022. From popular revolts to the new centre-left government elected at the end of 2024, including negotiations with creditors, this overview provides a better understanding of the situation, rich in lessons, in a country whose social, economic and political situation is largely unknown. Éric Toussaint compares what is happening in Sri Lanka with what happened in Greece in 2015 and in Argentina between 2019 and 2023, putting into perspective the risk of a hard right-wing government in the future.
Three things people think they know about Ukraine in wartime
19 February 2025, by Anna Colin LebedevEveryday life in wartime - how to organise a mass army, signing up, deserting, training....
Hanna Perekhoda: ‘The fight for freedom in Ukraine is intimately linked to the global struggle against fascist forces’
19 February 2025, by Hanna PerekhodaIn this interview, Ukrainian historian and activist Hanna Perekhoda looks back at some of the preconceptions and simplifications that, in Western Europe, shape discussion of the war in Ukraine.
- Ernest Mandel - The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International
- Penelope Duggan - Ernest Mandel: partybuilder and pedagogue
- Eduardo Lucita - Thirty years since the death of Ernest Mandel
- Ernest Mandel - The strategy of transitional demands
- Alex de Jong - Ernest Mandel Was One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Marxist Thinkers
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- Pierre Rousset - Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions
- Daniel Bensaïd - The tragic solitude of the Palestinians
- Daniel Bensaïd - Myths and legends of domination
- Darren Roso - Daniel Bensaïd’s “Untimely Marx”
- Alex Callinicos - Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics
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- Fourth International Programmatic Tendency - One of ours: Eleni Varika (1949-2026)
- Alex de Jong - Mohammed Harbi (1933-2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution
- Alain Cyroulnik - Jean Malifaud 1945 - 2026
- Kostas Skordoulis, OKDE-Spartakos - Eleni Varikas: the years with the FI in Greece
- Alan Wald - Eleni Varikas (1949-2026)
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- Caterina Peroni - Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
- Leila Serra Badran - The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine
- Justa Montero - What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?
- Badrul Alam - Code of Conduct against abuses: Two-Day Safeguarding Training Held by Bangladesh Krishok Federation
- Women of Centelhas - Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil
- More articles...
- Echo Fortune - Transgender socialism
- Aminah Jasho, Esme Abbott, Julisa Tambunan - Weaponising Gender: How gender became the perfect scapegoat for far-right and authoritarian actors
- Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla! - GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?
- Yong-hui Hong - Transphobic hate is not an opinion but a crime that endangers the lives of transgender people
- Peter Drucker - Kevin Floyd’s Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute
- More articles...
- Éric Toussaint - Rosa Luxemburg and debt as an imperialist instrument - Part 1
- Éric Toussaint - Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918
- Éric Toussaint - Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 1
- Éric Toussaint - Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 2
- Joel Geier, Lee Sustar - World economy: The return of crisis
- More articles...
- Socialist Democracy - The pandemic is a symptom of capitalism’s sickness: Workers should look to their own survival
- PRT, Mexico - Political statement on the COVID-19 pandemic emergency
- National Secretariat of the PST (Socialist Workers Party) Algeria - Let’s act for self-organization and against the coronavirus and the authoritarian temptations of the regime!
- Solidarity National Committee - A Medical, Economic and Social Crisis
- James Fortin, Jeff Mackler - Coronavirus threatens the lives of billions
- More articles...
- Camile Dagher - Concerning the long-term solution
- Julien Salingue - Evolution of the "non-Islamic" national movement in Palestine since the 1980s
- Roland Rance - The impact of the Zionist project on Palestine and the region
- Salah Jaber - The imperialist strategy of the US in the Middle East
- Tony Richardson - Report on new unions in Palestine
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- Ashley Smith - Trump’s strategy to reassert U.S. dominance
- Manfred Elfstrom - China’s labour movement under fire
- Andrea Ferrario - For Hong Kong activists: Exile, Prison and Repression Without Borders
- Fang - The Four Critical Junctures of Taiwan DPP’s Transformation from Democratic Reformers to US Client
- Worker Democracy - Preliminary Theses on the Taiwan Strait Crisis and Taiwanese Self-Determination
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- Jaime Pastor - New Disorder, Geopolitical Transition and Militarization of Europe
- Anti*Capitalist Resistance - Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament
- Gippò Mukendi Ngandu - For a campaign against rearmament, wars and imperialism
- Gilbert Achcar - In support of “synchronized global disarmament”
- Left Bloc - Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap
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- Elena Fernandez Fernandez - Serbia: Regime Crisis, Imperialist Dependence and Struggles for Self-Determination
- Gin Vola, Elias Vola - Popular mobilization under an authoritarian regime
- Gin Vola, Elias Vola - “The independent media played a crucial role in documenting the protests and making student demands visible”
- Ellana Caldin - Europe’s death chamber
- Denis Verstraeten - The EU and green colonialism in Serbia
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- Ashley Smith, Federico Fuentes - Venezuela after the coup
- CPBML - On the Situation in Venezuela
- ZASO - Build solidarity with the people of Venezuela - Reject US imperialist aggression
- Liga de Unidad Socialista - Stop Washington’s imperialist escalation! Solidarity with the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America!
- Socialist People’s Forum - US Hands Off Venezuela!
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Ernest Mandel Archive
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was the outstanding theorist of revolutionary maxism in the second half of the 20th century. The author of numerous books and articles on Marxist economics, he functioned for nearly 50 years as an active leader of the Fourth International, reflecting on rapidly changing social reality, and helping to orientate revolutionary marxists world-wide.
Daniel Bensaïd archive
In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations
Feminism
This section groups articles about women organizing as well as discussions of forms and analyses of women’s oppression.
Sexual politics
Economic and debt crisis
This section brings together articles on the economic and debt crisis, notably since the 2008 crisis. It includes reports given at the international economics seminar held in the International Institute for Research and Education in October 2009.
Covid-19 - Statements
Palestine seminar 2009
These articles are talks given at the seminar on Palestine held at the International Institute for Research and Education in February 2009. The seminar proposed a resolution on the situation in Gaza to the FI leadership which was adopted in February 2009.
China November 2025
Rearming Europe
Serbia dossier January 2026
Venezuela 2026
- Global profits: an upward turn?
- Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
- The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine
- What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?
- Searching for international solidarity
- “In Algeria, what is fundamental is the state”
- Against defeatism disguised as radicalism
- Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions
- Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil
- Transgender socialism
- Non-natalism
- Weaponising Gender: How gender became the perfect scapegoat for far-right and authoritarian actors
- Socialism or Barbarism - On the Eve of the 21st Century
- Ruptures: The New Manifesto of the Fourth International
- Anarchists in wartime. The experience of Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine
- Iran’s regime in a predicament of its own making
- Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines
- Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better
- After the 1973 Coup in Chile
- The coup in Chile
- The Chile Coup and after
- The rising class consciousness of the proletariat and the problem of power
- Debate on the counter revolution in Chile (1973)
- Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity
- Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
- An inflexible intervention for the liberation struggle of the Tamil people!
- Marching to a Different Drummer
- Andreas Malm: "Targeting SUVs or private jets can help struggles »
- Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual
- In Honour of Marijke
- Thank you Marijke! Having met you inspires us to continue..
- Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick
- International food crisis and proposals to overcome it
- Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
- Theoretical and practical conclusions of Marxist feminism
- Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade”
- Friedrich Engels and Primitive Communism
- Nancy Fraser: “Cannibal Capitalism” Is on Our Horizon
- Ecological Imperialism and Jair Bolsonaro’s Agenda in Brazil
- Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
- Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism
- Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist
- Bill Onasch: The life of a Marxist in the American workers movement
- The relevance of the theory of permanent revolution and its topicality
- Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
- Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …
- Marxism and the oppression of trans people
- Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
- “What does Rossana say?”
- The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East
- Gisèle Halimi: A courageous anti-colonialist and feminist lawyer
- Luis Sepulveda, revolutionary activist and Chilean writer, has died from Covid-19
- Women, race and class in social movements: An extract
- Farewell Comrade Lal Khan
- Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament
- Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist
- Maria José Belo Meca Maranhão
- Change Everything: Foundations and Challenges of the Feminist Strike in Spain
- Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed
- The Political Economy of Hungary’s New “Slave Law”
- Helena Lopes da Silva (1949-2018)
- Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement.
- A last farewell to Mick Woods
- Fifty years after the revolutions of ‘68
- The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia: 1968 as the antipodes of 1989
- The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction
- The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle
- On the contribution of the outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros (1930-2017) to critical thinking
- After Alienation
- Identity Politics Can Only Get Us So Far
- Queer sexuality, labour and nation
- From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?
- Being Brave Because It Is Right
- Voting on Dictatorship
- Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy
- World economy: The return of crisis
- Xi Jinping’s China – An extremely complex transition whose outcome remains unpredictable
- Part 3: Argentina - Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
- “The Hammer Blow of the Revolution”
- Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China
- Newly Independent Greece had an Odious Debt round her Neck
- Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process
- “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”
- New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa
- Capitalism and Gender Oppression
- The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State
- Closing the Conceptual Gap
- The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left
- Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism
- The state of reproductive rights in 2015
- The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state
- The European Central Bank’s true priorities
- The big private banks run on LTRO
- South Korea : the miracle unmasked
- “Leaps Leaps Leaps”: Lenin and politics
- LGBT Activism in Mainland China
- The Notion of the Revolutionary Crisis in Lenin
- Remarks on Gender
- The World Bank and the IMF in Indonesia: an emblematic interference
- The World Bank and the Philippines
- Early Soviet Commitment to Environment Protection and its Decline
- United States : the Fed Bails Out Wall Street
- World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
- Domination of the United States on the World Bank
- Private banks shamefully enjoy a monopoly of lending to the public sector
- Governments make Gifts Galore to Private Banks
- Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector
- The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop
- Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories
- The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale
- Big banks’ tampering with interest rates
- Drug and Bank Lords
- Banks and the New “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine
- The cancellation of German debt in 1953 versus the attitude to the Third World and Greece
- Why the Marshall Plan ?
- SUNFED versus World Bank
- Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
- The World Bank assists the powerful witch-hunters
- Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
- Women and the Early Years of Japanese Communism
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
- The personal and the political
- James Hansen’s ’exit strategy’ from global warming
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
- The roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution
- Precarity as contraceptive: conversations on the situation of abortion in Spain
- 100th Anniversary of The Woman’s Dreadnought
- Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress
- The Liberation of Women
- "We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
- Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
- An Interview with Alan Sears
- Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory
- The Fourth International and women’s liberation
- The feminist challenge to traditional political organisations
- The forgotten history of the “class struggle feminist” current
- The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France
- The transitional program and the tools to overthrow capitalism
- General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013): Military hero, revolutionary intellectual, environmentalist
- Norman Geras: “An adult life divided into two distinct chapters”
- Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
- In women’s liberation the first step is self-consciousness
- For an anticapitalist feminism in the here and now
- Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
- Feminism to the tune of the cumbia, corrida, tango, cueca, samba . . .
- Women and work in Western Europe
- Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013): a militant surgeon and an internationalist
- A Marxist Critique of Post-Marxism
- Why socialists need feminism
- The Current Mobilizations over Rape
- A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
- Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
- For another difference
- On the question of sexual difference
- Postmodernism and Feminism
- The significance of Occupy
- Francis Fukuyama and the ‘absent left’
- A personal tribute to Dave Packer
- Dave Packer: a tribute
- Gerry Foley: A Life Dedicated to Socialist Revolution
- The Left against Debt-tatorship
- In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
- The crisis of French Marxism
- Strategy and Party
- The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Marxisms, theory, yesterday and today
- Marxism and Feminism
- The powers of communism
- Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
- Has working-class consciousness collapsed?
- Elements of revolutionary strategy
- The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
- Dialectics and Revolution
- The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
- The Mole and the Locomotive
- Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
- 1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
- Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
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The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) has announced the creation of a new organisation: the All-Ukrainian Union of Combatants, Military Personnel and Veterans.
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Statement by Democracia Socialista (Socialist Democracy) Fourth International section in.Puerto Rico)
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From 18 to 25 July 2026, the Movement for Socialism (BfS/MPS) of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Internationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO) in Germany, is organising the 41st summer camp of the Fourth International.
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