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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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
26 October, by Paul MurphyCatherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.
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Argentina
Will Trump’s bail-out be enough for Milei?
25 October, by Martin HacheOn Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.
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Algeria
Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity
24 October, by Amel Hadjadj“On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”
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Greece
The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!
23 October, by Andreas SartzekisOn 1st October 1, a general strike was called in Greece by the GSEE (single private sector confederation), ADEDY (public sector federation) and many other federations and unions. It was very popular and focused on the rejection of a monstrous bill: allowing a13-hour working day for the same employer (we know that many Greeks have long been reduced to having two jobs).
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Middle East/North Africa
Morocco’s Gen Z and the Regional Volcano
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USA
Millions Protest Trump in Defense of Democracy and Social Justice
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South Asia
Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia
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Peru
Thousands take to the streets of Peru following the fall of yet another government
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War and ecology
Agent Orange, a slow violence that still kills
Recently posted Features
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Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
28 June 2021, by Socialist Resistanceread article...Our understanding of the term gender is that it is separate from the term sex, the latter refers to physiological features, the former to a socially constructed role. To quote Simone de Beauvoir: ‘one is not born but rather becomes a woman’. This has always been the general position of Marxist feminists – oppression is not a direct result of physiological features but the social role assigned in general to those who have those features.
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Myanmar
The incandescent front of East Asia: the background to the present crisis
28 June 2021, by Pierre Roussetread article...“What is at stake in the Myanmar crisis is of an international dimension. South-East Asia is at the crossroads of the Asia-Pacific region, whose geostrategic importance has become major: it is there that the face-to-face between the United States and China is being played out primarily.”
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I50 years of the Paris Commune
Why the Paris Commune Still Resonates, 150 Years Later
3 June 2021, by Enzo Traversoread article...The Paris Commune ended on this day [28 May] in 1871, after just two months in power. How do we explain the longevity and freshness of the memory of a fleeting revolutionary government?
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Obituary
An exceptional militant life
24 May 2021, by Ensemble!, Penelope Dugganread article...Many tributes were paid to the Fourth Internationalist and and eminent medical researcher Gérard Chaouat. Here we publish two in translation. Others can be found (in French) on the ESSF site in a dedicated rubric.
Fourth International
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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Free Nisar Shar and his colleagues!
October 2025
Senior lawyer Nisar Shah from Islamabad was arrested while demonstrating along with his 13 colleagues in a rally in solidarity with the protests in Kashmir against high wages for politicians organised by the lawyers association
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Brazil Will Take to the Streets in Defense of Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla!
October 2025
Israel has decided to continue its attacks on the Palestinian people and those fighting for a Free Palestine, by illegally seizing, in international waters, the boats participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which Thiago Ávila and Greta Thunberg are involved.
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