- Ilya Budraitskis argues that ““Ukraine’s Fate Raises the Issue of the Rights and Sovereignty of Small States””, Radical Socialist (India) considers “Trump and Ukraine” and Duncan Chapel reviews ““Putin’s Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses ‘Antifascism’ to Justify the War in Ukraine””. Oleksandr Skiba discusses “Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine”.
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- 27 May – On Ukraine
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Portugal
Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election
29 May, by Left BlocNational Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.
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South Africa
South African Union Responds to White House Debacle
28 May, by CollectiveThe General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump’s sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who’s seeking to extort favorable concessions for his Starlink operation in South Africa.
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Madagascar
Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy
27 May, by Paul MartialAffirming France’s presence in the Indian Ocean was the aim of French president Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Madagascar on 23-24 April, 2025.The Grande Île is unique in that it is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is governed by billionaires who do not hesitate to provoke serious crises in order to gain power. The French president was received by Madagascar’s president. Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey who has made a career in events management.
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USA
Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt
26 May, by Dan La BotzThe House of Representatives, dominated by the Republican Party, last week passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” as he calls it, by a vote of 215 to 214, giving tax cuts to the rich and more money to the military while reducing a variety of social programs for working-class and poor people.
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Canada
Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism
25 May, by André Frappier, Bernard RiouxWhile various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump’s threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Palestine
The Nakba intensifies. May our solidarity grow too!
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Germany
Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite
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Ecuador
What happened to the left in Ecuador?
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Ukraine
No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!
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Greenland
For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland’s independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature
Recently posted Features
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China
Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?
20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsenread article...After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).
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Fourth International
September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International
19 October 2018, by Arthur Nicola, Laurent Ripart, Léon Crémieux, Michael Löwy, Penelope Dugganread article...This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.
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Palestine/Israel
The implications of the Balfour declaration
20 September 2018, by Gilbert Achcar , Julien Salingueread article...Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.
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Israel
Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy
18 September 2018, by B. Skanthakumarread article...The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.
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!
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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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Escalating tensions between Pakistan and India
May 2025
Statement from the Haqooq Khalq Party (HKP) of Pakistan.
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