Dockers take action: “French Dockers Block Weapons to Israel”, “Swedish Dockworkers’ Union Leader Sacked for Gaza Solidarity Action”, “He’s suddenly a risk to ‘national security’”. Federico Fuentes reports “‘Brazil must set the example’: Unions, MPs urge Lula to cut ties with Israel over Gaza genocide”. While Roser Garí Pérez details “Germany and the Repressive Apparatus Against the Pro-Palestinian Movement: the Case of Berlin ” and Gideon Levy argues “Germany’s Enslavement to Its Past Kept It Silent on Gaza for Far Too Long”.
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Russia
Support the Russian-Ukrainian resistance against accelerating fascism worldwide
22 June, by Gin Vola, Elias VolaAlready in bad shape after 22 years of Putin’s repression, ranging from the criminalization of any critical action by the government to the imprisonment and assassination of opponents, the Russian opposition has had to face increased violence since the invasion of Ukraine.
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Spanish state
Miguel Urbán: "There are still set-ups like the one I suffered. There are police infiltrating social movements."
21 June, by Miguel Urbán CrespoThe leader of Anticapitalistas believes that the police plot that sought to implicate him in the alleged sale of 40 kilos of cocaine in 2016 was intended to attack Podemos "at a key moment in the politics of change" and announced, in an interview with elDiario.es, his willingness to take that conspiracy to the courts.
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Libya
Under the yoke of the militias in Libya
20 June, by Paul MartialA month ago, the detonations of automatic weapons and heavy artillery resounded in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, putting an end to the illusion of a stabilisation of the country. The responsibility of prime minister Abdul Dbeibah in triggering conflicts between militias to protect his corruption network has aroused popular condemnation.
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Palestine
Down with imperialist wars, no to the Paris Air Show!
19 June, by Antoine LarracheWith Israel’s attack on Iran, the situation in the Middle East is accelerating again, while the international movement for Palestine is growing, especially in France, where the next stop is at Le Bourget airport in northern Paris. The massacre in Gaza gets more unbearable every day, with the murders of Gazans during humanitarian aid distributions, starvation, images of emaciated children and examples of the absolute horror experienced by the people.
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USA/Ukraine
Ukrainian union leader comments on U.S. left
18 June, by Aleksandr Skyba, Oakland Socialist“What America needs is not just a protest, but a project. A project for a just state. A project for a working society.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Spanish state
Because it won’t be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?
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USA
No Kings! Freedom! Millions Protest Trump across the United States
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Portugal
Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections
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USA
The battle of Los Angeles
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Ukraine
Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...
Recently posted Features
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Far right
The imperial engine of fascism
18 June, by Antoine Dubiauread article...The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?
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Sweden - Palestine Solidarity
Swedish Dockworkers’ Union Leader Sacked for Gaza Solidarity Action
18 June, by Arthur Neslenread article...“Erik’s union had a tradition of international solidarity going back to the Vietnam War and 1973 Chilean coup, in which a generation of trade union activists were murdered.”
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Sweden - Palestine Solidarity
He’s suddenly a risk to ‘national security’
18 June, by Polly Smytheread article...“Solidarity actions like these have a long history. It was Swedish dockworkers who first refused to handle cargo from Chile after the coup d’etat and installation of Pinochet, and who pioneered the Swedish boycott on South African cargo in solidarity with the anti-apartheid movement.”
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France - Palestine Solidarity
French Dockers Block Weapons to Israel
18 June, by Kadal Jesuthasanread article...On Wednesday 4 June, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
Iran
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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On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran
Radical Socialist Statement
June 2025
Radical Socialist endorses the statement of the Fourth International issued on 13th June on the current Israeli war of aggression against Iran. Hence, we are reproducing the statement below. At the same time, we want our readers, especially in India, to note strongly certain concerns, some briefly mentioned in the FI statement, others specific to the Indian context.
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Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group
June 2025
UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.
USA
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
Statement by the Solidarity National Committee
June 2025
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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End the blockade of Gaza !
Statement by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International.
June 2025
“A massive worldwide mobilization to put an end to this genocide.”
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