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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Brazil
Oil Speaks Loudest: Environmental backsliding and the limits of Brazil’s energy transition
28 October, by SubvertacomunicaThe 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
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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...and the rest of the current issue
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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
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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
Recently posted Features
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Marxism
Daniel Bensaïd: a Marxism of bifurcation
28 June 2020, by Michael Löwyread article...Daniel Bensaïd has the merit of having introduced a new concept into the Marxist lexicon: bifurcation. He has, so to speak, sketched the broad outlines of what one might call a Marxism of bifurcation.
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Marxism
Angela Davis: An Interview on the Futures of Black Radicalism
28 June 2020, by Alex Lubin, Angela Y. Davis, Gaye Theresa Johnsonread article..."The concept associated with Black Marxism that I find most productive and most potentially transformative is the concept of racial capitalism.... Global capitalism cannot be adequately comprehended if the racial dimension of capitalism is ignored."
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Obituary
Maurice Rajsfus, the last of the righteous
19 June 2020, by Jean-Paul Sallesread article...Maurice Rajsfus was born in Aubervilliers (Seine St Denis) on 9 April 1928 and died in Antony (Hauts de Seine) on 13 June 2020. His parents were Polish Jews who had arrived in France in the 1920s. He last saw his parents at the age of 14 when they were arrested in the notorious rafle du Vélodrome d’Hiver.
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Obituary
Remembrance of Kevin Keating
5 June 2020, by Anne Conwayread article...Kevin Keating was born in Baile à tha Cliath (Dublin) Ireland on 29 January 1949 and died there on 8 May 2020. He joined People’s Democracy (Irish section of the Fourth International) in 1980, and remained a Fourth Internationalist until his death as a member of Socialist Democracy.
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.
- read article...France
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.
- read article...Pakistan
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
- read article...Palestine/Brazil
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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