Marc Bonhomme considers ”After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis”, Tempest investigates “Inside Die Linke ” and Alex De Jong explains how “Indonesia’s Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity”.
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- 7 June – Parties of the left
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Yemen
The women’s uprising in Yemen
8 June, by Luiza ToscaneYemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.
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Italy
Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws
7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra AnticapitalistaItaly votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.
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Palestine
Pity the people of Gaza!
6 June, by Gilbert AchcarWhat we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement’s rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.
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Belgium
Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police
5 June, by Elena Fernandez FernandezOn Monday afternoon, 2 June, in Elisabeth Park in Ganshoren, an 11-year-old child was struck and killed by a police vehicle. Another one. Once again, a young person has lost their life in a police operation. Once again, run over by a police officer. And once again, the institutions react coldly, relaying a version of events that incriminates the victim, while those responsible hide behind complicit investigations that generally lead nowhere.
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USA
Five Years Since George Floyd’s Murder
4 June, by Malik Miah“His murder led to nationwide and international protests and a reexamination of societal and institutional racism, including policing. Five years later what is the legacy of Floyd’s death and movement for justice and police accountability?”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Panama
Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America
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USA
Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”
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Kurdistan
Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives
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Mali
A dictatorship without complexes in Mali
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Britain
Labour panders to racism – playing the far right’s game
Recently posted Features
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On the nature of the state
1980: Methodological problems in defining the class nature of the bourgeois state
19 July 2020, by Ernest Mandelread article...In recent years, discussion on the definition and explanation of the class nature of the bourgeois state has expanded considerably. Although still mainly conducted in the GDR, France, Great Britain and Italy, the ‘Stamocap’III theory and debates on the class nature of the ‘national democratic state’ (in some former colonies in Africa and AsiaIV) make it a debate that is truly global. We do not want to talk here so much about the specific content of the most important works on this subject that have appeared so far. Rather, our intention is to raise some general problems related to the application of the historical-materialist method to the problem of the class nature of the bourgeois state. Directly or indirectly such problems play an important role in this discussion. [1]
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Marxism and ecology
1973: The dialectic of growth
29 June 2020, by Ernest Mandelread article...This article was originally published as ‘La Dialectique de la Croissance’, Mai, November 1972, pp. 7-14. This translation is based on the Dutch version published in the reader of a 1973 congress on the ‘Crisis in economic theory’, VESVU-kongreskommissie (ed.) Krisis in de ekonomiese theorie: lezingen en diskussies van het vesvu kongres vu-amsterdam (Nijmegen, 1973), pp. 55-76, available online in the Marxists Internet Archive here. Translation by Alex de Jong.
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Imperialism
1972: The Driving Forces of Imperialism
29 June 2020, by Ernest Mandelread article...This paper was submitted to the Bertrand Russel Centenary Symposium, Linz, Austria, September 11th to 15th, 1972. First published in: Ken Coates (ed.) Spheres of influence in the age of imperialism (Nottingham, 1972).
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Marxism
Daniel Bensaïd: a Marxism of bifurcation
28 June 2020, by Michael Löwyread article...Daniel Bensaïd has the merit of having introduced a new concept into the Marxist lexicon: bifurcation. He has, so to speak, sketched the broad outlines of what one might call a Marxism of bifurcation.
Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
- read article...Youth
The Fourth International’s Youth Camp
May 2025
The world is on fire and the authoritarian right aims to control and dominate us to ensure the survival of capitalism. But radical ecosocialist youth fight back!
- read article...India/Pakistan
Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor
May 2025
The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.
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On the Ongoing India-Pakistan Conflict and the Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir
May 2025
Press Statement Jammu Kashmir Awami Workers Party (JKAWP)
- read article...Ukraine-USA deal
Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?
May 2025
Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.
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