- 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”. Andriy Movchan argues “‘No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin’”.
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- 1 June – On Ukraine
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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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Panama
Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America
3 June, by José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-MolinaA small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.
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USA
Trump’s Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”
2 June, by Dan La BotzAmerica had two previous political purges of the left, the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, and now we’re in the midst of the Trump purge—and it’s worse than the earlier ones.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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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
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Portugal
Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election
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South Africa
South African Union Responds to White House Debacle
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
The trade unionist Manuel Graça has died (1953-2020)
18 March 2020read article...On Saturday, 14 March, the trade unionist Manuel Graça died. A member of the LCI and the PSR, and a founder of Bloco de Esquerda, Graça was for two decades the Coordinator of the Union of Shoemakers, Bag makers and Associated Trades in the Aveiro district.
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Feminism in Britain
Fifty years of feminist organising in Britain – challenges for the future
9 March 2020, by Terry Conwayread article...Terry Conway is a social feminist and LGBTIQ activist. She is LGBT officer in Islington North Labour Party, Chair of Hackney and Islington Unite Community and officer of Labour Women Leading and a supporter of Socialist Resistance. This is an edited and expanded version of a contribution she made at a meeting at Houseman’s bookshop on March 4.
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Our history
Rosa Luxemburg and debt as an imperialist instrument - Part 1
5 March 2020, by Éric Toussaintread article...In her book titled The Accumulation of Capital, [1] published in 1913, Rosa Luxemburg [2] devoted an entire chapter to international loans [3] in order to show how the great capitalist powers of the time used the credits granted by their bankers to the countries of the periphery to exercise economic, military and political domination on the latter. She sought to analyse the indebtedness of the newly independent states of Latin America, particularly, following the wars of independence in the 1820s, as well as the indebtedness of Egypt and Turkey during the 19th century, without forgetting China.
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A tribute
In honour of Comrade Lal Khan
3 March 2020, by Fourth International Bureauread article...It was with great sorrow that we learned that our comrade Lal Khan was no more.
Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
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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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