The NGO CARE underlines “Women and girls fear for their safety in the Philippines, as earthquake aftershocks continue to rock Northern Cebu ”, Perempuan Mahardhika insists “Women cannot win decent work and freedom from violence under the anti-democratic regime in Indonesia:”, Feminist Workshop explains ““Russia has erased Ukrainian feminist history””. Sadly we pay tribute to three comrades: “Serge Chasseuil (1953-1972) has left us”, “Our comrade and friend Henri Benoits (1926-2025)”, “In memoriam: Paul Mepschen (1976-2025)”.
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- 8 December – Women’s lives; obituaries
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USA
Trump Intensified Racist Attack on Immigrants—and the Resistance
8 December, by Dan La BotzPresident Donald Trump has intensified his attack on immigrants, particularly immigrants of color, with outbursts of racist language and a barrage of new regulations. But the resistance is also growing.
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Poland
Support the struggle of the Valeo workers in Poland
7 December, by Collective“At a time of rising nationalism with a nauseating undertone, both in France and in Poland, there is no better antidote than this concrete solidarity across borders against the same boss.”
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Climate
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics
6 December, by Brian AshleyAs the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world’s political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.
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USA/Venezula
Trump’s looming ‘Forever War’: Hands off Latin America and Venezuela!
5 December, by United Left PlatformThis statement is by the United Left Platform. This is an initiative of a group of revolutionary and independent socialist organizations to actively seek opportunities for joint work, given the unprecedented authoritarian assaults facing the left, oppressed communities, and the working class as a whole in the U.S. and internationally. It is united by a commitment to political independence, a strategic focus on social struggle and mass action, and democratic organizing in all efforts. The organizations of the ULP are International Marxist Humanist Organization (https://imhojournal.org), Socialist Horizon (https://socialisthorizon.org), Solidarity (https://solidarity-us.org), Tempest Collective (https://tempestmag.org), and Workers Voice (https://workersvoiceus.org).
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Mozambique
TotalEnergies must face up to its responsibilities in Mozambique
4 December, by Paul MartialA complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique has just been lodged with the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT), following the ‘container massacre’.
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Britain
Your Party exists! Now the hard work begins…
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Greece
Relentless dismantling of the public education service in Greece
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USA
Violence and Death at Home and Abroad
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Portugal
Towards the General Strike in Portugal - Only the strength of those who work can halt the labour package
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USA
Mamdani’s Victory: what way forward to build the US socialist movement?
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France
The event itself and its effects... Looking back on May ‘68
2 May 2018, by Daniel Bensaïdread article...In 2008, in an interview with Francis Sitel for the journal Critique communiste (No. 188) Daniel Bensaïd looked back over the strategic debates which took place in May 1968, and especially in its immediate aftermath, among the militants of what became in 1969 the Communist League. Between enthusiasm for the rise of struggles and fear of being swept away by the ebb tide of the mobilizations, between predictions about the coming revolution and reformist dead ends, it was the question of organization, of the political party, that was posed at that time in new terms for a far left that was overwhelmingly composed of students. Contretemps
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Russia
The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man
2 May 2018, by Ilya Budraitskisread article...The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real socialism” become blurred and vanish, those necessary for the production of ideology become ever more sharply defined. It’s often argued that communism, buried a quarter of a century ago as living practice, has since acquired an afterlife in the form of a restless corpse, a remnant, a regurgitated survivor from the past, blighting the lives of new generations.
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Global Migration
27 April 2018, by SAP (Denmark)read article...From the middle of the 20th century, migration has been a decisive political issue. International organizations estimate that the number of people moving within and across national borders has grown to greater extent than ever since World War II. These type of estimates are never neutral – how far, and under which circumstances, do you have to move to be counted as a migrant, for instance? It is the same with statistics; you always have to make some qualification.
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Women
The year of #MeToo
26 April 2018, by Elizabeth Schulteread article...Many things can spark a wildfire, but it’s what happens afterward that determines whether that fire will rage. In the case of the #MeToo campaign, the dozens of women who stepped forward to talk about their experiences of having been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was the catalyst for tens of thousands more women to break the silence about their own stories of sexual assault and harassment—providing fuel to a fire that has been long in the making.
Algeria
Petition to lift the block on the defence of Samir Larabi’s doctoral thesis
December 2025
Samir LARABI, a doctoral student in the Sociology Department of Abderahmane Mira University in Béjaia (Algeria), has been subjected to repeated obstructions for 29 months, following abusive refusals by the rectoral administration to allow him to defend his doctoral thesis. Validated by his research supervisor, the validity of his thesis has been confirmed three times by the scientific bodies of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite validation by the faculty’s Scientific Committee of the changes imposed by the rectoral administration, the latter persists in refusing to allow him to defend his thesis.
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Urgent Call for Solidarity: Support Sri Lanka’s Flood and Landslide Relief Efforts 2025
December 2025
“This is not simply a humanitarian appeal—it is a call to uphold our shared global commitment to justice, dignity, and collective care. As climate disasters intensify, international leftist solidarity remains essential to ensure that working people everywhere can survive, rebuild, and continue the struggle for a more just world.”
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First preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference
November 2025
The organizing committee holds the first preparatory meeting of the First International Antifascist Conference.
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Palestinian COP30 coalition demands
November 2025
For nearly two years, Israel has waged a livestreamed genocide against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza and across historic Palestine, devastating lives, land, and ecosystems. UN experts have described Israel’s crimes as including domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and ecocide. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.
- read article...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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