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‘My family is safe': the Turkish regime's crackdown on LGBTI+ people

Uraz Aydin — 2026-09-15T10:29:34Z

A new milestone was reached in the Erdoğan regime's homophobic crackdown on Sunday 13 September. Police forces launched a large-scale operation against LGBTI+ organisations and activists, as well as organisations campaigning against HIV/AIDS. Raids were carried out in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, amongst other places. The Ministry of Justice states that the operation, dubbed “My family is safe”, involves a total of 162 people, nine organisations and thirteen premises across fifteen provinces.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Turkey, LGBT

Anti-LGBTI laws tightened in Niger

Lalla F. Colvin — 2026-06-21T06:11:47Z

The tightening of anti-LGBTI laws in West Africa continues in Niger. On 11 June 2026, the Niger government published its revised Penal Code, which had been initiated by Mohamed Bazoum, the country's former president, overthrown in a coup in July 2023. The country is now led by General Abdourahamane Tiani.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Niger, LGBT

The Revolution Will be Queer or it Will Not Be a Revolution

Democracia Socialista (PR) — 2026-06-10T12:31:11Z

Statement by Democracia Socialista (Socialist Democracy) Fourth International section in.Puerto Rico)

- News from around the world / Puerto Rico, LGBT

Transgender socialism

Echo Fortune — 2026-03-27T13:52:24Z

There remains a world to win for transgender people, but what kind of socialism is capable of winning it? Echo Fortune gives her answer.

- Sexual politics / LGBT, Sexual politics, Features

GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?

Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla! — 2025-10-18T10:11:25Z

Amandla! interviewed Bridgette Nkomana about gender based violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA+ community.

- Sexual politics / South Africa, LGBT

Union president to get married

2025-08-29T13:20:20Z

Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war who defended Mariupol and then spent 20 months in Russian captivity, has just been elected as the new president of the LGBTQ+ military union.

- News from around the world / Ukraine, LGBT

Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025

Nora Rhiannon — 2025-08-26T12:22:38Z

The more I talk with cis people on the left, the more I realise how out of touch they are with the realities faced by the trans community. Whenever the discrimination we face enters conversations, a chorus of voices responds to tell everyone that “the left” needs to “prioritise working class issues” and not be “distracted” from “genuine material concerns”. In the interest of educating cis comrades who've been misled by this framing, today we're going to use a mix of studies, surveys and anecdotal evidence to explore the life of the average trans person in Wales. Let's see how well the picture of trans people as comfortable middle class ideologues holds up to scrutiny…

- IVP607 - August 2025 / LGBT, Cymru/Wales

UK Supreme Court backs bigots and transphobes

Paris Wilder — 2025-04-21T07:05:52Z

On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 (the EA) refer to the sex assigned at birth in a case that was pushed for and funded by the UK gender critical movement. In essence, the judgment has found that being a woman entails having an XX chromosome, large gametes and the ability to produce children. This judgment means that trans women with gender recognition certificates (GRC) will no longer be legally defined as women under the EA.

This is a fundamental attack on the human rights of trans people.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Britain, LGBT, Far Right

Class, Race, and Gender in the 2024 elections

Kay Mann — 2025-03-20T11:40:39Z

Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections was due in large part to declining support for the Democratic candidate from union members, African Americans, and Latino/a s suggesting a decline in class consciousness, working class solidarity, and the strengthening of masculinist and white racial identities. These are shocking not only because of Trump's hostility to unions, working class problems, and his overt racism and sexism, but because these groups have long been part of the Democratic party voting bloc.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / United States (USA), Women, LGBT, Racism and Islamophobia

Trump-Musk Coup Leads to Resistance in the Courts and in the Streets

Dan La Botz — 2025-02-10T13:31:07Z

President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have been on a rampage, closing government agencies, firing thousands of workers, and pressuring two million federal employees to resign, actions that threaten the well-being of millions of Americans—children, the elderly, the disabled, federal workers, and others who depend on the federal government. Their actions constitute an on-going technocratic coup from the top and from within the government itself, what in Latin America is called an auto-golpe (a coup against one's own government) as Musk's techies, mostly young men employed by him, effectively take control by commandeering the state's computer systems. Trump's assault has left the country in a state of shock and confusion.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Migration, LGBT, Racism and Islamophobia, Fascism