Pierre Rousset explores “Kashmir, India, Pakistan: on the history and internationalist stakes of a state of war”. Joseph Daher details “Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process”.
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- 17 May – Behind the News
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Ecuador
Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right’s plans to reform the constitution and destroy rights
18 May, by Iain BruceSince the re-election of Daniel Noboa as President of Ecuador on 13 April, his hard-right, Trump-like administration, and most of the Ecuadorean establishment, have launched a ferocious campaign against Leonidas Iza, the President of CONAIE (the Confederation of Ecuador’s Indigenous Nations), and former presidential candidate of the Indigenous and plurinational movement, Pachakutik. They see him, and the communities, movements and struggles that he represents, as the main obstacle to their plans for a radical neoliberal reform to the constitution.
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Ukraine:
3 years into war, Ukrainian leftists fight for labor rights under martial law
17 May, by Theia Chatelle , Ana Babić, Vitaliy DudinUkrainian leftists face a double bind, caught between anti-labor governance in Ukraine and military attacks from Russia.
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Portugal
“We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”
16 May, by Esquerda.netParliamentary elections will take place in Portugal on Sunday 18 May. This report on a Left Bloc electoral meeting gives a flavour of the campaign.
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Geopolitics
“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”
15 May, by Gilbert Achcar , Ilya BudraitskisWhere did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia’s war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture
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Ukraine
‘Russia’s war no excuse for attacks on trade unions’
14 May, by Federico FuentesUkrainian workers make up the bulk of frontline soldiers defending the country against Russia’s war of aggression, but that hasn’t stopped Volodymyr Zelensky’s government from attacking trade union rights.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Georgia
The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus
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USA
What Will an American Pope Mean for the US?
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South Asia
From the front line: a critical look at Indo Pak War 2025
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Ukraine
Ukrainian socialist: Five main problems with the US-Ukraine mineral deal
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Syria
Syria: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Recently posted Features
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In Memoriam
Michel Lequenne (1921-2020): A very particular Trotskyist
16 February 2020, by Michael Löwyread article...Michel Lequenne died on 13 February 2020, at almost 99 years old.He was a singular, atypical Trotskyist, an outstanding character, by the strength of his convictions, his polemical verve, his extraordinary – self-taught! – political, literary, artistic and historical culture, his propensity for dissent, his fidelity to the legacy of Red October.
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Our History
Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918
16 February 2020, by Éric Toussaintread article...In February 1918, the repudiation of the debt by the Soviet government shocked international finance and sparked off unanimous condemnation by the governments of the great powers.
This decision of repudiation was intrinsic to this first big movement for social emancipation which rattled the Russian Empire in 1905. This huge revolutionary uprising was caused by the conjunction of many factors: the Russian debacle in its war with Japan, the wrath of peasants demanding land, the rejection of autocracy, workers’ demands... The movement began with strikes in St Petersburg in 1905 and soon spread throughout the empire like wildfire, adopting different forms of struggle.
Out of the process of self-organization by the masses emerged councils, or soviets in Russian: peasants’ councils, workers’ councils, soldiers’ councils and so on.
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Holocaust
1990: “Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide”
27 January 2020, by Ernest Mandelread article...This is the text of Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., Révision de l’Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et génocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74.
The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232. -
An Unrepentant ’68er’s Life
19 January 2020, by Kay Mannread article...An Impatient Life by Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach
Foreword by Tariq Ali.Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages.
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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