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The Need for New Leadership for the Working Class in South Africa

Madoda Cuphe — 2026-05-03T09:59:23Z

Our comrade Madoda Cuphe discusses current social issues in South Africa, ongoing protests, and the need for political reorganization thirty years after the fall of apartheid.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / South Africa

Theses for an ecosocialist critique of artificial intelligence

Daniel Tanuro — 2026-05-02T07:30:13Z

This text focuses on generative AI. The formulation in theses (unevenly developed) is not intended to establish certainties, but to facilitate debate by the conciseness of the presentation.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Economy, Ecosocialism

"It is essential to break the encirclement: let's not stop talking about Palestine, Gaza is not far from our home."

Macéo and Sama, Ramiro Giganti — 2026-05-01T09:05:51Z

In the night of 29-30 May, as was foreseen by Ramiro Giganti, Israeli forces illegally detained some twenty boats of the flotilla and arrested nearly 200 activists - trade-unionists, healthworkers, solidarity activists, electd representatives. They rendered the boats unusable.

Demonstrations in many countries of the evening of 30 April called for the liberation of all these activists and for the flotilla to continue its mission of bring even symbolic material aid to Gaza and breaking the blockade.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Palestine

Comorian healthworkers strike against wage inequality

Paul Martial — 2026-04-30T10:25:49Z

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services , Comoros

Another Attempt to Assassinate Trump Could Put the Left in Danger

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-29T08:43:53Z

“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

On the Pope's Visit to Algeria - Old and New Myths

Nadir Djermoune — 2026-04-28T10:19:35Z

There are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Algeria

Trump vs. Anthropic: Does the U.S. Want Killer Robots?

Léonard Brice — 2026-04-27T09:43:00Z

“I fired them like dogs.” This is the formula that US president Donald Trump, with the elegance we know him for, used to sum up his battle with the American company Anthropic. He will have to wait a little longer before bragging: in a first order issued on 27 March 2026, the court suspended the blacklisting of the artificial intelligence (AI) giant, whose tools can therefore still be used by administrations, contrary to the president's wishes. But the tug-of-war is not over, and we must take the measure of what is at stake: the United States' use of AI in the service of a regime of terror.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)

17,000 households deliberately deprived of water

Amandla! — 2026-04-26T09:30:40Z

Amandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / South Africa, Public services

How a regional warmonger came to host US-Iran peace talks

Farooq Sulehria — 2026-04-25T07:07:33Z

Mainstream Pakistan is basking in (self)glory. As host of the US-Iran negotiations — rumours of a second-round abuzz — Islamabad is upbeat. From talk show hosts to YouTube influencers, the one-dimensional message is clear: Pakistan has finally been assigned the role it deserves in the global hierarchy.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Pakistan

Trump's recent racist rant against Somalia, Somalis and Somali Americans

Thomas Tews — 2026-04-24T08:21:34Z

During a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump made racist comments on people of Somali origin, calling them “low-IQ” and “bad people”.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Somalia, Racism and Islamophobia