- 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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Palestine
The “Day After” in Gaza
14 August, by Gilbert Achcar“Hypocritical cries of condemnation have risen, warning Netanyahu that this project will lead to massive displacement and a large number of deaths, as if the genocide and displacement perpetrated by the Zionist army over the past 22 months, and supported during several months by the same Western governments that are blaming Netanyahu today, were not already worse than what he is promising now.”
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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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...and the rest of the current issue
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Palestine solidarity - Britain
Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms
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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!
Recently posted Features
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Economic crisis
Latin America and the global crisis
24 September 2011, by Claudio Katzread article...The effect of the world crisis in Latin America requires three types of discussion: the immediate economic effect, the long-run political effect and the social measures required to confront the financial collapse.
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Guevara
Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
24 September 2011, by Michael Löwyread article...IN AN ARTICLE published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”
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France
The crisis of French Marxism
18 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...This article was first published in English in "International Marxist Review" No 14, Winter 1992.
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On the state
1980 - Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State
12 July 2011, by Ernest Mandelread article...“Historical materialism elevates the principle of the dialectical relationship between the particular and the general, which reveals the essence of phenomena, to the theoretical foundation of the dialectical understanding of history.”- Leo Kofler, Geschichte und Dialektik
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.
- read article...Antifascism
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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