A piece from the archives by Daniel Bensaïd “The tragic solitude of the Palestinians”; a Belgian view on European security “For an anti-capitalist and internationalist security policy, against the Trump-Musk-Putin axis and neoliberal authoritarian European governments:” and from Left Bloc of Portugal “ Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap”. Gilbert Achcar argues “In support of “synchronized global disarmament””.
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- 10 April – Palestine; European security
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Serbia
Serbian students cycle to Strasbourg, Macron prefers to receive the autocrat Vučić
14 April, by Jean-Arnault Dérens“A hundred students have set off on bicycles from Novi Sad on 3 April to reach Strasbourg, where they are due to arrive on 15 April to present their demands to the European institutions. In this long 1,400-kilometre race ‘to wake up Europe’, they were welcomed as heroes in Budapest - the mayor of the Hungarian capital, an opponent of Viktor Orbán, joined the Serbian diaspora - and in Vienna. In the Austrian capital, all the Balkan diasporas gathered to cheer the student cyclists in Marie-Thérèse Square, recalling that, in all their countries, ‘corruption kills’.”
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Palestine
Palestine: Land Day, March 30th
13 April, by Louison le GuenSince 1976, the Palestinian people have celebrated Land Day every March 30th, a day rooted in the history of Palestinian resistance and emblematic of the current struggle for survival. In 1976, the Israeli government launched a plan to Judaize the Galilee, confiscating 20,000 dunams of land (18 km2) in the midst of Arab villages. The aim was to build Jewish settlements on land belonging to Palestinian Arab citizens - the majority of the region’s population. Everywhere in Palestine, from the Galilee to the Negev, in towns and villages, there were general strikes and demonstrations.
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Chad
Marine Le Pen invited by the Chadian dictatorship
12 April, by Paul MartialFrance’s far right Rassemblement national (RN) party has been trying to establish relations in Africa for several years now, and party leader Marine Le Pen’s visit to Chad from 14-16 March 2025 is the latest avatar. The RN leader, accompanied by one of her close associates Louis Aliot, was received by Mahamat Déby, the Chadian president who has been in power for over three years thanks to a coup d’état ostensibly supported by Emmanuel Macron. Even if relative, the RN leader’s interest in Africa, the source and cause of the much-hated “migratory submersion”, seems counter-intuitive to say the least.
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Ukraine solidarity
Brussels conference lifts Ukraine solidarity to higher plane
11 April, by Dick NicholsThe Brussels Solidarity with Ukraine conference on March 26–27drew together about 200 activists from a score of countries, in support of the Ukrainian people’s national and social rights.
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Africa
The state of Africa in the new world order
10 April, by Will ShokiAfrica today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties that once commanded legitimacy as national liberators are losing their grip; yet the opposition remains fragmented, offering little in the way of alternative governance.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Türkiye
Türkiye: Political Crisis and Democratic Movement
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Hungary
Hungary: Orbán’s new LGBTIphobic attacks
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USA
Millions protest Trump throughout United States as resistance grows
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Canada
Trump’s Trade War and Canadian Workers
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USA
The attacks on us all
Recently posted Features
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Economic crisis
The free fall is over, but... The crisis continues
27 January 2010, by Joel Geierread article...Joel Geier contributed his view of the economic crisis to the IIRE economists’ seminar in a report based on this article.
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Daniel Bensaïd
The powers of communism
20 January 2010, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...This essay was probably among the last written by Daniel Bensaïd. It appears in the latest issue of Contretemps, the journal of which Daniel was one of three publishing editors. The piece is a contribution to a series of essays on the meaning of communism put together as part of a symposium on the same topic being held in Paris on January 22nd and 23rd. Daniel was looking forward to the symposium.
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Economic crisis
Global crisis and the policy reaction in Western and Eastern European Union
18 January 2010, by Özlem Onaranread article...This article is based on the report given at the IIRE Economists’ seminar in October 2009. It examines European Union policy response to the crisis.
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France
A page has been turned (the formation of the NPA)
8 January 2010, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...We never saw the reference to Trotskyism as a way to shut ourselves off from others. For us, it was more like a polemical challenge. We accepted the Trotskyist tag in our conflict with the Stalinists — but without building a neurotic identity out of it or, conversely, downplaying the importance of this heritage.
USA
Ten National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance
April 2025
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Le Pen convicted, the fight against the far right continues!
statement by NPA-l’Anticapitaliste
April 2025
In the so-called case of “the parliamentary assistants to the European Parliament”, Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday 31 March to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, a fine of €200,000 and was banned from running for office for five years. Thus, taking into account the usual judicial delays before the holding of an appeal and the effect of political destabilization, her candidacy for the presidential election in 2027 is very much in doubt, especially if the election is called early.
- read article...Turkey
Turkish people will not accept the death sentence for their democracy
March 2025
Dear friends and allies, stand with us! Share this call with your local MPs, mayors, unions, parties, and friends.
Raise your voices for Turkey
- read article...Repression
Support imprisoned comrade in Spanish state
February 2025
In Spain, a comrade of Anticapitalistas is in prison for participating in a demonstration against the negationist extreme right. He is 27 years old, has been in prison for one year and still has four more years to go.
- read article...Philippines
Holcim Philippines against cement workers (Mindanao): End the lockout! Support the workers just demands!
February 2025
We, the different human rights and organizations of agricultural workers and sectors in Mindanao firmly stand in solidarity with the deprived and exploited workers of the Holcim Philippines Incorporated Lugait, Misamis Oriental Mindanao Plant. We call on Holcim Philippines Incorporated to listen to the just demands of the workers and their families.
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