The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We look into our history: Livio Maitan on “Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique”. Kay Mann reviews “The Early Comintern in Context”. Paul Le Blanc discusses the memoirs of Mikhail Baitalsky “Remaining true to socialism — and wrestling with its meaning”.
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USA
Gloria Steinem, prominent American feminist, 1934-2026
9 September, byThe passing of Gloria Steinem, the most celebrated of the US “second wave” feminists of the 1970s, provides an opportunity to consider both her life and work. Some on the left, such as Jenny Brown writing in Jacobin, have condemned Steinem as a “neoliberal” who used and misused the women’s movement, disdaining the movement’s radical wing, to advance her own career as self-proclaimed leader.
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Germany
Eastern elections and Die Linke: anything but an all-party government
8 September, byAfter the results of the Saxony-Anhalt elections on 6 September the discussion on perspectives for the German left is even more important. In this prescient analysis, written shortly before the election, Thies Gleiss outlines the roots of the crisis.
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Ukraine
A summer in Ukraine
7 September, byDespite an increasingly trying war, Ukrainian society continues to hold on and fight. On the front, the Ukrainian army has managed to break through enemy lines in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. All these advances are in addition to the 540 km² already gained this summer. But a mass mobilization is being prepared in Russia, although it is officially denied on the eve of the Duma elections, from 18-20 September. It could mean several hundred thousand new recruits, to compensate for the enormous human losses on the front. More than 110,000 young Russians have left for Georgia to escape it.
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Russia
Preparing the Left for Russia’s Future Crisis
6 September, by ,“In 2018, Mikhail Lobanov won a seat in Russia’s parliament, soundly defeating one of Putin’s most well-funded candidates in an upheaval reminiscent of some of the recent democratic socialist wins in U.S. races. But rather than take this seat to uphold independent, democratic socialist, and anti-war politics in the Russian government, his seat was stolen through electoral fraud, and police harassed, arrested and beat him and raided his home, driving him out of the country.”
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Palestine
After a catastrophic summer, rebuilding hope in Palestine
5 September, byIn Gaza as in the West Bank, the situation has been catastrophic throughout the summer. As elections begin in Israel and Palestine, the challenge remains for us to relaunch mobilization and international solidarity.
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