IVP619 - August 2026

“Often at the center of these debates is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is seen as a possible candidate in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary election in 2028. While she has not yet said if she will run, that possibility polarized DSA members.”

The far right’s advance and the question of how to stop it gives this issue its spine: Martín Mosquera on "how to defeat Milei" in a reactionary period, Eduardo Lucita on the spectre of the far right haunting Latin America, Jorge Escalante on a Peruvian crisis that "will worsen with the Fujimorist victory," and the Against the Current editors on the looming US election.

On 26th August part of a glacier and the stone layers beneath it on the northern slope of Langtang Lirung in the Nepal-Tibet border [Tibet is today an “autonomous region” of China] collapsed. The ice and rock avalanche falling down from this nearly 7200 metre mountain was so powerful that its impact created a seismic signal equivalent to a 5.2 Richter scale earthquake. The debris flow then traversed nearly 100 kilometres via Lende Khola river to the Bhote Koshi- Trishuli river system. Villages have been destroyed, the principal road connecting Nepal with China has been isolated, and at least 6 hydel power centres have been damaged according to the news received till now over 500 deaths have been reported from Nepal and Tibet and nearly 2000 people are still untraced.

Keiko Fujimori’s electoral victory as head of the Peruvian government is part of the advance of neo-fascism in the world and of the offensive, spearheaded by Trump in Latin America, to capture governments and turn these countries into the USA’s backyard in order to strengthen the weakened hegemony of the US. The arrival of Keiko Fujimori is not just a simple change of government; it is the direct return of an authoritarian project initiated in the 1990s by the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori.

“As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter to “Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’”, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.”

Ukrainians are facing a fifth winter in wartime conditions. Solidarity is needed as much as ever

Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.

MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.

Fifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.

Since the end of May, day after day, Albanians have been protesting in Tirana against a luxury tourist complex that US president Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plan to build with an Albanian investor. At first, there were only a few hundred demonstrators, but it has now become a mass movement.