- 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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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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Kurdistan
Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives
1 June, by Mireille CourtOn February 2025, from the Turkish island of Imrali where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, “Apo” (uncle) as he is affectionately known to the Kurds, called for the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK – Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and an end to the armed struggle in Turkey. The stunned reaction of some international opinion showed the extent to which the PKK’s political evolution had been ignored.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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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
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Madagascar
Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy
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Daniel Bensaïd
Strategy and Party
5 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...This is based on the transcription of a talk Daniel Bensaïd gave at the Fourth International youth camp in Barbaste, France in July 2007. The subheadings have been added.
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Marxism
The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
20 May 2011, by Michael Löwyread article...In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses dialectically – the celebrated Aufhebung: negation/conservation/elevation – the preceding materialism and idealism, and formulates a new theory, which we could describe as the philosophy of praxis. While the French materialists of the eighteenth century insisted on the need to change material circumstances so that human beings could change, the German idealists affirmed that, thanks to the formation of a new consciousness of individuals, society would be changed.
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Marxism
Marxisms, theory, yesterday and today
4 October 2010, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...Members of Vpered, an organisation of mainly young members in a number of cities in Russia, now the section of the Fourth International, met Daniel Bensaïd in Paris in December 2006 and asked him, as a leading Marxist philosopher, teacher and activist, for his opinion on the relevance of Marxism today.
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Theory
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Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
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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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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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