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Popular revolt grows in Bolivia

Patrick Guillaudat — 2026-07-01T08:01:08Z

Bolivia has been experiencing a powerful social movement against President Rodrigo Paz's austerity measures since the spring of 2026. Led by trade union, peasant and indigenous organizations, the mobilization is facing growing repression while maintaining its demands against the high cost of living and the grip of multinationals.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Bolivia, Protest movements

50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising

Paul Martial — 2026-06-26T10:34:47Z

The 1976 Soweto uprising sparked a resurgence of militancy and helped to undermine apartheid in South Africa.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / South Africa, Racism and Islamophobia, Protest movements

What the “Flamingo Revolution” reveals

Albanian Anti-Capitalist Collective (KASh) — 2026-06-20T15:45:46Z

For more than a week, the European media have been regularly relaying images of Albania, usually absent from the Western press: thousands of demonstrators, flags or placards in hand, can be seen in the streets of Tirana or elsewhere. They have been gathering incessantly since 30 May 2026 against planned tourism projects in Zvërnec, near the Narta Lagoon, as well as on the island of Sazan. Beyond the ecological issues, the barbed wire installed on the coast against which activists are pressing has become, for the people, the symbol of a major political issue: that of the progressive dispossession of their territory and future.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Albania, Protest movements

Steadfast in defence of the people's vote: the struggle continues

Nuevo Perú — 2026-06-19T22:10:52Z

Despite a very large popular vote against her, Fujimori's far-right party was declared the winner of the election. The mobilisation must be stepped up and turned into social struggles.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / Peru, Protest movements

Government brutalizes, the street protests in Belgium

Mateo Alaluf — 2026-05-30T06:10:23Z

Belgium has once again been paralysed by strikes. Tens of thousands of workers demonstrated in Brussels on Tuesday 12 May 2026, the day before the opening of the debates on the law and pension reform programme. Since the formation of the government, structured around the two major right-wing parties (the Flemish nationalists of the NVA and the “Trumpified” Francophone neoliberals of the MR- Mouvement réformateur), the trade union common front (Fédération générale du travail de Belgique-FGTB, Confédération des syndicats chrétiens-CSC and Confédération générale des syndicats libéraux-CGSLB) has been mobilising relentlessly and successfully. The conflict is primarily aimed at the federal government, but also at the federated entities, particularly with regard to education.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Belgium, Protest movements

US May Day Actions Lay Foundations for Mass Militant Labor Action

Kay Mann, Randy Furst — 2026-05-21T14:09:34Z

May Day actions in the US called by May Day Strong (MDS), a coalition of left led union such as the Chicago teacher's union (CTU) and union locals in Minneapolis, California and elsewhere, took place throughout the country under the slogan, “No Work, No School, No Shopping” to protest Trump's domestic and international policies. Two articles - by Kay Mann on the nationwide picture and Randy Furst gives a focus on Minneapolis.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements

May Day: No Oligarchs, No ICE, No War

Dan La Botz — 2026-05-05T10:18:21Z

Tens of thousands of working people across the United States joined the May Day Strong protests in 3,500 cities demanding “Workers over billionaires,” “No ICE” (immigration police) and “No War.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements

Movement Builds to Free Milwaukee Muslim Leader Detained by ICE

Mike McCallister — 2026-04-22T16:42:09Z

On Monday, March 30, Salah Sarsour, President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) was stopped by a dozen vehicles and arrested by 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who first took him to the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois, and then to the Clay County Justice Center, near Terre Haute, Indiana.

- News from around the world / United States (USA), Migration, Protest movements

The Fuel Protests: Blame The Government Not the Protesters

People Before Profit — 2026-04-13T09:55:12Z

Widespread protests against fuel price rises have provoked broad debate on the Irish left, between support and caling for the protests to stop because of teh disruption to peoples's lives. This is the position of the broad socialist organization People Before Profit.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ireland, Economy, Protest movements

Growing Convergence of the Anti-Trump movement in the US

Kay Mann — 2026-03-13T15:41:00Z

The upcoming mass No Kings! demonstrations planned for March 28 and ambitious plans for May Day mobilizations point to the growing convergence of anti-Trump forces. This convergence takes place against the backdrop of Trumps' destructive assault on democratic rights in the US and the sovereignty of nations abroad, most recently his reckless aerial attack on Iran, and plummeting approval ratings in the polls.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements