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• Palestine

  Massacres and starvation in a criminal silence

  4 July, by Édouard Soulier

  The situation in Gaza is terrible, with massacres during the distribution of food aid, starvation imposed by Israel and the systematic destruction of the region. Impunity remains total, and those who speak out against this genocide are silenced.

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• China

  The social cost of China’s resistance to Trump’s tariff war

  3 July, by An Dexin, Au Loong-Yu

  Trump’s tariffs bullied the whole world. Both Canada and China reacted strongly against them, most countries did not. This garnered a lot of international support for Beijing,. A global poll conducted by Morning Consult showed that in January last year, the U.S. in various countries scored more than 20 points while China scored negatively. However, by the end of May this year, after Trump’s “Liberation Day”, the perceptions reversed, with the U.S. at -1.5 and China at +8.8. Many see this as a reflection of people’s sympathy with China’s resistance to Trump. This comes with a heavy price, however. China’s exports have already slowed down since early 2025, and in May it plunged 34.5% year-on-year.

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• Serbia

  Serbia: controlled, decentralized chaos across the country, but power is waning

  2 July, by Tara Mirković

  Since Sunday night, a veritable game of cat and mouse has been played out on the streets of Belgrade between citizens and the police. The principle is simple and highly effective: erect improvised barricades, block a street or intersection, wait for the police to arrive, then disperse peacefully before starting again further on. In this ballet of non-violent resistance, each withdrawal is a new opening. While the police dismantle the roadblocks, sometimes violently, others form elsewhere. And this elusive movement is spreading throughout the country.

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• Argentina

  Mobilisations in Argentina: Brief considerations on the current political turmoil

  1 July, by Eduardo Lucita

  “Everything is moving toward the eventual establishment of a new political regime in the country. Massive and sustained popular mobilisation is what can put a stop to this reactionary process, but this must not sideline the national midterm elections next October, which are also a decisive arena for struggle.”

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• Madagascar

  Draft laws play hide-and-seek in Madagascar

  30 June, by Paul Martial

  In Madagascar, parliamentary bills are kept secret until they are passed. Neither citizens nor MPs can debate texts that are sometimes crucial to the life of the country. In the face of this authoritarian closure, civil society organizations are denouncing an anti-democratic drift orchestrated by Rajoelina’s government.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• USA

  Can Democratic Socialist Mamdani become Mayor of New York?

• Africa

  Overfishing is plundering waters in Africa

• Denmark

  Enhedslisten: Support for more defence - but which defence?

• Mexico

  A mixed success for the President in Mexico

• USA

  State of the Resistance

Recently posted Features

• Ecology

  A critique of the ecosocialist manifesto of the Parti de Gauche

  24 March 2013, by Daniel Tanuro

  Daniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) [1]. In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to the crucial debate on the necessary ecosocialist strategy.

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• Britain

  Socialist Feminism: Hidden from history

  7 March 2013, by Terry Conway

  It is usual that for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution — in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event. On other occasions we have looked at the role that women are playing in struggles today abroad as well as at home.
  In this article I am doing something a bit different — to start to celebrate the role that socialist feminists played in second wave feminism in Britain.

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• The Communist Women’s Movement (1921-26)

  7 March 2013, by John Riddell

  The following working paper was presented to the Toronto conference of Historical Materialism on May 16, 2010. For Spanish-language translation, see IPS blog de debate. When we celebrate International Women’s Day, we often refer to its origins in U.S. labour struggles early in the last century. Less often mentioned, however, how it was relaunched and popularized in the 1920s by the Communist Women’s Movement. Moreover, this movement itself has been almost forgotten, as have most of its central leaders.

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• Obituary

  Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013

  7 March 2013, by Linda Gordon

  Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women’s and gender history since the 1960s. Over the course of 50 years, a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians created a field with thousands of PhDs. The field expanded from Lerner’s development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College in 1972 to the presence of Women’s History faculty in the great majority of U.S. colleges and universities.

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