Version imprimableIn the Spanish state, the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen, who died on 7 October, set off a movement that forced a snap general election. Miguel Urbán Crespo recalls Daniel Bensaïd’s lesson that "history does not advance according to a railway timetable," Jaime Pastor weighs the general strike against the threat of a reactionary election victory, Juanjo Álvarez examines the housing decrees voted in Congress, and Dan La Botz reports from the tent city in Bilbao. Anticapitalistas respond to the snap election called for 29 November: continue the struggle on the streets. The contagion spreads: José Soeiro on a new cycle of struggles in Portugal, and Esquerda.net on the Lisbon encampment ("Can’t manage anymore? Then pitch your tent!"); Dave Kellaway on mass protests of youth and workers in Italy, and Eliana Como on the CGIL’s call for a general strike on 20 November; and Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP calling everyone onto the streets alongside the youth of Belgium.
Three elections went against the right. Srđan Atanasovski’s cover feature explains the Student List’s victory in Serbia, ending fourteen years of Vučić, as the product of "a conflict between two elites." Iain Bruce calls Lula’s second-round comeback in Brazil "the most important defeat for the far right we have seen anywhere in the world in recent times," while Michael Löwy, writing before the first round, explains why time had to be bought. In Sweden, Socialistiska Politik reports that the right lost even as social democracy fell to a historic low. Jawad Moustakbal explains why Morocco’s ballot boxes do not produce liberation, and Nadav of Tsedek! tells l’Anticapitaliste that Israel’s election is "a race to the bottom" on Palestinian rights.
The United States approaches the midterms with Trump on the defensive. Kay Mann sets out the stakes, and Dan La Botz writes four more times: on the people turning against Trump, on the 7 to 9 million who joined the No Kings demonstrations, on the Latino vote that may decide the result, and on Mayor Mamdani, who condemned an ICE shooting in New York but faces criticism from the left. Dave Kellaway argues that Andy Burnham’s first conference speech shows there is still life in Labourism, Colin Long answers the Australian Greens’ new leader that "peace is the fundamental business of the left" and Ukraine is entitled to defend itself, Paul Martial follows Kenyan and French workers organising together against Téléperformance, and Abahlali baseMjondolo’s Thapelo Mohapi tells Amandla! that "the reason you are poor is not another poor person." Antoine Larrache reports the World Social Forum in Benin as a failure of NGOization, while Gippò Mukendi Ngandu and Uraz Aydin cover the anti-NATO conference held in Istanbul under state repression.
The Features section is dominated by artificial intelligence and climate. Ashley Smith opens a three-part series with two tech workers, and Eliana Como argues that the danger of AI lies not in the technology but in who controls it. Phil Hearse warns that we are sitting on a climate time bomb that the far right dismisses as a "scam," Nahuel Gravano shows that the collapse that follows El Niño and La Niña is not natural, Gregor Zahn reads the Swiss landscape through floods and droughts, and M.V. Ramana assesses the growing risk of nuclear war. Kim Moody answers Vivek Chibber’s case for market socialism, Eduardo Lucita charts the new right’s governments across Latin America, François Sabado untangles the historical ambiguity of "the Left," Angela Klein asks how far the AfD is fascist, and Enzo Traverso’s preface introduces Salvatore Cannavò’s history of the workers’ cooperative movement. Two obituaries close the section: Sinistra Anticapitalista’s farewell to the historian Antonio Moscato, and Duncan Chapel on Alan Thornett, "the best-known militant in the British car industry" in the decade that decided the fate of British trade unionism.
News from around the world carries two items: Anticapitalistas on the calling of the Spanish elections, and a report of Sinistra Anticapitalista’s ecosocialist summer university, "AI, Anti-Capitalist Intelligence."
