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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Rosa Parkes at 100
21 February 2013, by Dianne Feeleyread article...In 1988, Rosa Parks attended a film screening of the first segment of the documentary “Eyes on the Prize” in Detroit. Afterward she spoke about her involvement in the civil rights struggle, and I was lucky enough to be in the audience. She was a small woman with a quiet but steel-sharp voice that made an ever lasting impression on her audience.
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India
‘Defend women’s right to freedom without fear! Ensure swift and sure punishment for rape!’
28 January 2013, by Kavita Krishnanread article...This is the cover story of the forthcoming January 2013 issue of the magazine of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. It is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with Kavita Krishan’s permission. Kavita Krisnan is secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association AIPWA.
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Economic crisis
Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!
22 January 2013, by Éric Toussaintread article...Since 2007-2008, the major central banks (the ECB, Bank of England, the “Fed” in the USA, and the Swiss National Bank) have been making it their absolute priority to attempt to avoid a collapse of the private banking system. Contrary to what has been said more or less everywhere, the principal risk threatening the banks is not that a government will suspend payment of sovereign debt. None of the bank failures since 2007 have been caused by that kind of payment default. None of the bank bailouts organized by the various governments has been made necessary by suspension of payment by an over-indebted State.
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Sexual violence
The Current Mobilizations over Rape
21 January 2013, by Soma Marikread article...As a historian, I know that the actions very often have highly unintended consequences. Historical turning points occur, not because deep planning willed them into existence, but at the intersection of many cross-currents. So it is today. Activists of our generation have been campaigning for long over rape, demanding changes in rape laws, changes in attitudes, and a wide range of demands. But it was not our repeated campaigns, nor even the over a decade long epic protest of Irom Sharmila, that managed to shake the entire country. It was, on the surface, a single incident, the Delhi bus gang rape of early December 2012. We are aware of the vast numbers who have come out and demanded punishment, government action, who have protested repeatedly and vigorously.
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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