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- 26 October – Marxism in theory and practice
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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
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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...and the rest of the current issue
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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
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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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Middle East
Why the Kurds Should Be Supported
20 November 2019, by Jabra Nicolaread article...This article, published in 1963 by the Israeli revolutionary socialist group Matzpen, was authored by one of its founders, the Palestinian Marxist Jabra Nicola. At the time the article was written, Iraq was in the midst of a sequence of violent upheavals and military coups that would ultimately result in the ascendance of Saddam Hussein.
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Obituary
Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist
11 November 2019, by Brian Ashleyread article...According to Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish, a “mensch” is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. Other definitions define mensch as a person of honour and integrity.
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Historical events
India and the Colonial Debt
10 October 2019, by Sushovan Dharread article...“The former Indian minister and a member of the parliament, Shashi Tharoor demanded Britain to pay reparations to India and other former colonies for its decades of imperial rule. He made the case in a debate entitled ‘This house believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies’, organised by the famous debating society, the Oxford Union in 2015.
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Women
The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right
30 September 2019, by Cinzia Arruzzaread article...In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run the risk of jeopardizing the achievements of the gay rights movement and of opening the doors to a reactionary right on the rise:
Ukraine
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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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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