- Gilbert Achcar reflects on “Neofascism, Imperialism, War, and Revolution in the Middle East” and advocates with Ilya Budraitskis ““For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense””. Enzo Traverso discusses “Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century ”.
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- 7 August – Special feature: Fascism
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Britain
Labour, tough on Grannies, easy on genocide
13 August, by Dave Kellaway“Some of those arrested were in their nineties and could barely walk to the police vans. Some were in wheelchairs and one was blind. All you had to do to get arrested was to write on a blank placard: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. The location of the protest was well chosen. It took place in Parliament Square, in front of the statues of Gandhi and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett who took forms of non-violent direct action.”
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Fourth International
Fighting side by side from Kyiv to Panama: A look back at the 2025 International Youth Camp
12 August, by Collective“The last bus awaits in the camp’s parking lot. Young people, most of whom didn’t know each other a week before, exchange phone numbers, social media, and hugs. Here and there, tears flow, as if to prolong the downpours that punctuated the week.”
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South Africa
Free State – a province in crisis, and Botshabelo – the symbol of broken promises
11 August, by Thandiwe Tess TshakaThe recent findings by the Auditor-General confirming the Free State as the worst-performing province in South Africa are not just shocking, they are a painful reminder of how deeply broken our systems of governance and service delivery have become. For many residents, especially those in Botshabelo, this is not news. This is daily life.
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Bangladesh
One year of the Bangladesh interim government: crisis and possibility of resistance on the stage of exploitation
10 August, by Badrul AlamOver the past one year, the interim government has been part of a difficult chapter in the country’s politics. They came to power amid political instability and economic crisis, but from a Marxist analysis, it is clear that this government does not represent the liberation of the working people; rather, it wields state power to protect the interests of the capitalists.
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Palestine solidarity - Britain
Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms
9 August, by CollectiveA letter signed by 52 academics and writers, including Tariq Ali, Judith Butler, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Avi Shlaim.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Britain
Building grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers
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Palestine/Israel
Our Genocide — Executive Summary
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Hiroshima
A warning from history: ‘This is what is going to happen to you’
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Lebanon
Georges has returned, Ziad has left us!
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Panama
Protests follow arrest of union leaders in Panama
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Israel
Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy
18 September 2018, by B. Skanthakumarread article...The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.
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Obituary
A last farewell to Mick Woods
16 September 2018, by Lone Degn, Ulf B. Anderssonread article...Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July. But its not only in Britain and Denmark that Mick is mourned - the proudest achievement of his political life was his involvement in International Workers’ Aid, a campaign of practical solidarity with multi-ethnic Bosnia. The tribute below, from Ulf B Andersson from Swedish Workers’ Aid, was read at his funeral by former Danish MEP Søren Sondergaard who first met Mick through the campaign. The second piece was written for his memorial meeting in London, also addressed by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell by Danish comrade Lone Degn. Establishing a proper archive for IWA would be the best tribute we could pay to Mick - Eds
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Catalonia
Catalonia’s independence movement :A strategic assessment
5 September 2018read article...After more than two million people in Catalonia voted to declare independence from the Spanish state in October 2017, the state struck back. The Spanish central government, under the conservative President Mariano Rajoy, dissolved the Catalán government and charged its leaders with crimes of rebellion against the state. Rajoy called new elections in Catalonia for December 2017. In the results of those elections, the pro-independence parties took the small majority of a sharply polarized electorate. The independence movement, the Catalán government, and the Spanish state are currently locked in an impasse.
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Philippines
Muddying the Revolution
3 September 2018, by Alex de Jongread article...We should be honest about the Communist Party of the Philippines’ record, including its assassinations of left-wing activists.
Ukraine
Kryvyi Rih — Vermont — Paris!
August 2025
A unique event took place at the Kryvyi Rih branch of the Social Movement NGO — we had the honour of welcoming special guests: Senator Tanya Vyhovsky from Vermont, USA, and Nico Dix, representative of the French New Anti-Capitalist Party-l’Anticapitaliste (NPA-A). It was an inspiring meeting, filled with valuable experiences and sincere conversations!
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You give us corruption, we give you revolution!
Statement by Sotsialnyi Rukh
July 2025
Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.
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Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference
July 2025
“we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism – placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority.”
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Faced with the Iran-Israel war, a third way is possible!
June 2025
While the skies over the Middle East are once again ablaze with smoke and flames, and the media are inundated with talk of ‘Israeli precision strikes’ and the ‘promise of token vengeance of the Islamic Republic’, what is once again left out is the fate of those who do not take decisions in command rooms or hide in underground bunkers.
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Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
Joint Statement by Independent Organizations in Iran
June 2025
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Solidarity and Struggle Network, is transmitting this text, signed with other independent organisations in Iran:
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