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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

In Greece, we do not forget, we do not forgive Tèmbi

Andreas Sartzekis — 2026-03-12T10:59:39Z

“"Either their profits or our lives": the slogan is everywhere.”

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Greece, Protest movements

National Protests Continue Against ICE and Trump

Dan La Botz — 2026-02-01T18:14:47Z

President Donald Trump continues ICE raids, arrests of journalists, and seizing election records, as the public turns against him. All of this is about the mid-term election in November, which Republicans could lose.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / United States (USA), Migration, Protest movements

The Massacre of Protesters Will Not Block the Path to Freedom

Iranian Writers' Association — 2026-01-28T13:52:45Z

In less than two weeks, the Islamic Republic repeated—on a vast and horrifying scale—all the crimes it has committed over forty-seven years of bloody rule. As many had feared, “the government filled the prisons and cemeteries with protesters.”
By cutting off all means of communication—from the internet to text messages and phone lines—the authorities carried out a massacre in total silence. They labeled the victims “rioters” and “enemies” and opened the way for the continuation of an (…)

- News from around the world / Iran, Protest movements

Beyond the Headlines: Why Iran's Protest Wave Can't Be Reduced to One Name

Siyavash Shahabi — 2026-01-26T17:08:49Z

“the street is the product of a decade of accumulated pressure, repression, and scattered bottom-up organizing. Famous figures arrive late. The real danger is that, instead of strengthening the movement's diversity and real field experience, projects emerge whose goal is not to open a road to freedom—but to manage and control a movement that has already broken out of control.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Iran, Protest movements