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On 4 April 2026, on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of NATO, the Global Anti-Militarist Webinar was held, organised by the “No to NATO” initiative, created following the appeal of the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TIP), in which members of the Fourth International are active. Bringing together speakers from several dozen countries and nearly 200 participants, this webinar called for the organization of an International Anti-Imperialist Peace Summit in June 2026, in response to the summit of this criminal organization planned in Turkey. We are releasing the final statement of the webinar.

Faced with the G7, which is meeting in Evian to organize the destruction of peoples, the exploitation of living things and the domination of bodies, let us organize our resistance against fascism and imperialism! Let’s meet from June 13 to 17, 2026 in Geneva to build the internationalist response!

Last night, the world once again witnessed Israel’s absolute impunity. The Israeli army carried out a raid in international waters, intercepting and rendering several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) inoperable. This assault took place off the coast of Crete – nearly 1,000 km from Gaza!

On Monday, March 30, Salah Sarsour, President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) was stopped by a dozen vehicles and arrested by 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who first took him to the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois, and then to the Clay County Justice Center, near Terre Haute, Indiana.

The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.