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• Palestine solidarity

  Sailing for Palestine

  2 October, by Jennifer Debs, Nico Calabrese

  The Global Sumud Flotilla set out in the vital attempt to break the Gaza blockade, the Israel navy has now intercepted almost all the boats as they neared Gaza. This has provoked worldwide protests. Jennifer Debs interviewed Nico Calabrese who joined the flotilla.

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• France

  Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward

  1 October, by Léon Crémieux

  France finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron’s government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government whilst facing its most severe social unrest since the yellow vest movement.

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• Germany

  “A left-wing, grassroots orientation allows you to score points in times of polarization”

  30 September, by Antoine Larrache, Violetta Bock

  Our comrade Violetta Bock presents the situation in Germany and her work as a Member of Parliament for Die Linke, which consists of making a link between the working classes and the contesting of an increasingly unstable power. She spoke to Antoine Larrache.

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• USA

  Trump Increases Repression Against Political Enemies and the Left

  29 September, by Dan La Botz

  President Donald Trump, breaking with U.S. norms, is using the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies, going after liberal and progressive foundations and NGOs, and sending more troops to another American city to intimidate protestors. He has fired Justice Department attorneys who are unwilling to put his orders above the law and replaced them with flunkeys who will carry out his demands. He has promised “retribution” to his high-level political opponents and is now meting it out. And he is also targeting the political left, saying he will designate Antifa, that is the anti-fascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization, though there is no antifa organization and no legal designation for domestic terrorism. To carry out his campaign against Antifa he is sending troops to Portland, Oregon.

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• Ecosocialism

  II Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting: Free Territories and Convergence for Action

  28 September, by Vanessa Dourado

  The current times, with the rise of the far right and genocidal wars, mark an era where the contradictions of the current system of production, distribution, and consumption demonstrate that we are in a higher stage of the already characterised civilisational crisis. However, this is not just another of Capitalism’s cyclical crises. The metabolic rupture, this irreparable breach in the natural cycle of exchange between human society and nature, challenges human beings’ ability to provide responses compatible with the acceleration of socio-environmental destruction.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Nepal

  The Nepalese paroxysmal crisis and its regional context

• Palestine

  Flotilla approaches Gaza

• Ukraine

  War of drones or war of nerves

• Italy - Palestine solidarity

  Finally, a general strike!

• Brazil

  Hundreds of thousands protest against amnesty for Bolsonaro

Recently posted Features

• Ukraine

  The Ukrainian left is building on several fronts

  27 September 2024, by Catherine Samary

  “The aim here is to shed light on the specific profile of this young left, based on its activist practice at the heart of Ukrainian society and breaking with the dominant contradictory interpretations of the ‘Euro-Maidan’ (2013-2014) that divide the left and are exploited by Putin.”

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• Imperialism

  Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world

  11 September 2024, by Federico Fuentes, Kevin B Anderson

  Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin’s writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.

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• Surrealism as a revolutionary movement

  11 September 2024, by Michael Löwy

  Surrealism is not, and has never been, a literary school or an "avant-garde" artistic movement (like Cubism or Fauvism), but a vision of the world, a way of life, and an eminently subversive attempt to re-enchant the world. It is also a utopian and revolutionary aspiration to "transform the world" (Marx) and "change life" (Rimbaud): two identical slogans, according to André Breton. It is an adventure that is at once poetic and political, magical and playful. It began in Paris a hundred years ago, in 1924. It continues today.

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• Hong Kong

  “Frank conversations and the search for consensus are crucial for rebuilding Hong Kong’s future democratic movement”

  12 August 2024, by Au Loong-Yu

  In these challenging times, Loong-yu Au, a labour researcher, thinks that frank conversations and the search for consensus are crucial for rebuilding Hong Kong’s future democratic movement.

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