Marc Bonhomme considers ”After Twenty Years, Québec Solidaire Faces an Existential Crisis”, Tempest investigates “Inside Die Linke ” and Alex De Jong explains how “Indonesia’s Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity”.
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- 7 June – Parties of the left
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Italy
Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws
7 June, by Dave Kellaway, Sinistra AnticapitalistaItaly votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni’s post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.
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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”
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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
Recently posted Features
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Ukraine and USA
Trump and Ukraine
27 May, by The Radicalread article...The televised clash between Zelensky and Trump on February 28, 2025 will in the eyes of some sections of the global public (even in India) raise serious doubts about the widespread claim that the Ukrainian government has been a ‘proxy’ of the US against Russia and that the threat of NATO expansion was the primary reason for Russia’s invasion.
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Ukraine
“Ukraine’s Fate Raises the Issue of the Rights and Sovereignty of Small States”
27 May, by Ilya Budraitskisread article...Ilya Budraitskis, historian and author, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the most important voices of Russian left-wing intellectual thought, speaks to "Epochi" about the imperialist logic that governs the talks between the USA and Russia regarding the end of the war in Ukraine, the objectives of both sides, and the stance of the Russian Left towards a potential peace agreement.
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USA
Trump’s Mass Deportation Wave
23 May, by Dianne Feeleyread article...Key to Trump’s Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.
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Far right
“The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right”
19 May, by Ilya Budraitskis, Philipp Schmidread article...Exiled Russian political scientist and activist Ilya Budraitskis explains the causes of the rise of the extreme right, the goals of the new fascists, and what lessons the radical left should draw from the 20th century for the fight against fascism. He makes a few suggestions for where anti-fascist politics could begin today in this interview by Philipp Schmid (BFS Zürich) first published in Sozialismus.ch.
Panama
Solidarity with Panama 9 June
June 2025
Call for protests outside Panamanian consulates on 9 June.
- read article...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!
- read article...India/Pakistan
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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