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”. Ilya Budraitskis argues ““The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right””.
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- 17 May – Behind the News
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Ukraine
No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!
21 May, by Elias Vola, Gin Vola“If we want to avoid the worst-case scenario, namely Ukraine’s defeat and the strengthening of Russian neo-fascism, international solidarity must be stronger than ever.”
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Greenland
For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland’s independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature
20 May, by SAP (Denmark)With Donald Trump’s repeated demands that the US take over Greenland and his vice president J. D. Vance’s comments on the number of US military personnel in Greenland, the imperialist competition for Greenland has taken a decisive new step.
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Trump’s foreign policy
Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy
19 May, by Dan La BotzPresident Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian horses, and watching sword dances, Trump and the monarchs heaped praise on each other.
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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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...and the rest of the current issue
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Portugal
“We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”
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Geopolitics
“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”
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Ukraine
‘Russia’s war no excuse for attacks on trade unions’
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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?
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
Luis Sepulveda, revolutionary activist and Chilean writer, has died from Covid-19
23 April 2020, by Sylvain Chardonread article...Luis Sepulveda died on Thursday 16 April in Oviedo (Asturias, in the Spanish state) of Covid-19, which he had contracted at the end of February during a congress of writers in Portugal. Sepulveda was a great writer and his works, translated into more than 60 languages, have enjoyed worldwide success.
Luis Sepulveda was also an activist. Member of the Chilean Communist Party from the age of 12, he quickly moved towards a more revolutionary commitment. In recent years, he had moved away from the debates on the socialist and revolutionary left. Nevertheless he was also very close to us because he had participated, in practice and with arms, in all the debates of the revolutionary movement from the beginning of the 1970s to the mid-1980s.
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Feminism
Women, race and class in social movements: An extract
6 April 2020, by Jules Falquetread article...Jules Falquet looks at the complexity of identities, loyalties and the interests of everyone in social movements. The book Imbrication. Femmes, race et classe dans les mouvements sociaux published in February 2020 by Éditions du Croquant, presents the history of guerrilla (Salvador), Indian-peasant (Zapatista movement in Mexico) or Black (Brazil, Dominican Republic, USA) struggles, as well as the women’s, feminist and lesbian movements of the continent: the women of the Americas and the Caribbean offer us an exceptional mirror to better understand “intersectionality” at a time of a profusion of struggles, sometimes confusing . Starting from the daily life of these movements in order to reach a veritable "science of the oppressed", this book is aimed at an inquisitive public as well as activists and the world of research. [Contretemps]
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Covid-19 statement
The pandemic is a symptom of capitalism’s sickness: Workers should look to their own survival
5 April 2020, by Socialist Democracyread article...As we face into a catastrophic viral pandemic the question many are asking is how is it that while the world is fabulously wealthy the funds are not available for a first class health care system? Everything is in short supply!
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Obituary
José Maria Galante “Chato” - the tenacity of the rebel
1 April 2020, by Manuel Garíread article...José Maria Galante was born in Madrid on 27 April 1948, died from Covid-19 during the night of 28-29 March 2020.
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)
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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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Escalating tensions between Pakistan and India
May 2025
Statement from the Haqooq Khalq Party (HKP) of Pakistan.
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