Promise Li on “Joanna Misnik: A Tribute and Political Biography ”. Jaime Pastor considers “Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso”.
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- 26 October – Marxism in theory and practice
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Serbia
The streets against the regime in Serbia: one year of mobilization in review
31 October, by Gaëlle GuehennecFor a year now, young people in Serbia have been continuing their fight for a democratic society in the face of Aleksandar Vučić’s authoritarian regime. On both sides of Serbia, student marches are criss-crossing the country in the direction of Novi Sad to commemorate the collapse of the railway station, responsible for the deaths of 16 people on 1 November 2024. This tragic event triggered a political protest on an unprecedented scale.
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Ukraine
Bruised but determined, the Ukrainian people fight on
30 October, by DominiqueWhile diplomatic manoeuvres take centre stage, the Ukrainian people, in an increasingly difficult context, continue to resist, including in the occupied zones.
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Madagascar
After Rajoelina’s regime collapses - desire for a radical break
29 October, by Paul MartialAs international pressure mounts to demand the restoration of constitutional order, young people from GenZ and workers are sketching out what the Madagascar of tomorrow could look like.
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Brazil
Oil Speaks Loudest: Environmental backsliding and the limits of Brazil’s energy transition
28 October, by Subvertacomunica“The recent decision by Ibama (the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to grant the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, an environmental licence for exploratory drilling along the Equatorial Margin, near the mouth of the Amazon River, represents a huge step backwards for the country’s environmental and energy policy. It shows that the logic of fossil fuel-based development continues to dominate within the Brazilian state, something that we urgently need to overcome.”
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USA
The United States Prepares for War on Venezuela
27 October, by Dan La BotzThe United States is preparing for war against Venezuela. While President Donald Trump has asserted that the country’s goal is to stop shipments of Venezuelan drugs to the United States, in private conversations U.S. officials have made it clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This forms part of Trump’s goal of reasserting U.S. domination in Latin America such as it exercised in the nineteenth century by gunboats and in the twentieth century by installing friendly governments.
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Ireland
Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left in Ireland
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Argentina
Will Trump’s bail-out be enough for Milei?
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Algeria
Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity
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Greece
The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!
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Middle East/North Africa
Morocco’s Gen Z and the Regional Volcano
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
Joanna Misnik: A Tribute and Political Biography
23 October, by Promise Liread article...Joanna Misnik (6 September 1943-3 September 2025) was a leading Fourth Internationalist in the United States for many decades. International Viewpoint published a number of tributes earlier. This substantive essay traces Joanna’s political life and underlines her important contribution.
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Marxism
Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso
22 October, by Jaime Pastorread article...The original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.
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USA-Brazil
Trump Tariffs Threaten Brazil: Pushing for Regime Change
19 October, by Gilberto Araújoread article...U.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump’s second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
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Militarization
From the "12-day war" to the NATO and EU summits: A leap forward in militarisation, under the orders of Trumpism
19 October, by Jaime Pastorread article...NATO’s joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc’s shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.
Greece
We denounce the arrest and prosecution of 15 students and demand their acquittal of all charges
October 2025
On the night of October 13th to 14th, at 2 a.m., by order of the Dean of the National Technical University of Athens, heavily armed special police forces, unprovoked and provocatively, invaded the historic site of the Polytechnic and arrested 15 students.
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Energy, Infrastructure, and Civilians Targeted: Ukrainian Trade Unions Call for Solidarity
October 2025
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
The Russian Federation continues its brutal, full-scale war on Ukraine. Every day, Russia launches missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities, destroying workplaces, homes, and entire communities, while imposing its criminal regime on the temporarily occupied territories.
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Tribute to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald
October 2025
On Saturday 11 October 2025, at the Buchenwald memorial and on the initiative of the association Les amis d’Arbeiter und Soldat, a tribute was paid to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald.
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Lecornu mark 2 – a government at war with working people
Statement by NPA-l’Anticapitaliste
October 2025
Lecornu 2 is a pure Macronist government, made up of technocrats, former Macron advisors, and also those under criminal investigation: Rachida Dati from the Culture Ministry soon to be tried for corruption and influence peddling; Vincent Jeanbrun, Minister of Housing, accused of favoritism in the allocation of housing to relatives.
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After Lecornu, let’s fight for a popular government of change!
October 2025
Statement by the NPA on 6 October. After the extre 48 hours Macron gave Sébastien Lecornu there is still no government. Left forces are meeting but without a result so far. The NPA-l’Anticapitaliste has addressed the forces of the NFP calling for unity. This was the first statement on 6 October.
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