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Biden Failure in Debate Leads to Crisis in Democratic Party, Pressure for a New Candidate

Dan La Botz — 2024-06-30T21:58:08Z

President Joseph Biden's disastrous failure in his televised debate with rival former president Donald J. Trump has led to a crisis in the Democratic Party as some call for the party to choose a new candidate.

- IV593 - June 2024 / United States (USA)

In Portugal, the right-wing party confirms its majority

Daniel Borges — 2024-06-29T21:11:20Z

On the night of 9 June, the secretary general of the Socialist Party (PS) announced that his party was the big winner of the European elections and that the PS "is now the leading political force in Portugal".

- IV593 - June 2024 / Portugal, European Union

EU Parliamentary elections show reactionary thrust and nuclei of resistance

Léon Crémieux — 2024-06-29T17:28:11Z

The European parliamentary elections of 6-9 June 2024 gave a picture of the political forces present in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU), which above all reflects an increase for the conservative right, the European People's Party (EPP) group, which gained 13 MEPs with 189 seats, and the two far-right groups, Identity and Democracy (ID) and the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), which in total gained 21 seats with 141 MEPs. Despite numerous disagreements between (…)

- IV593 - June 2024 / European Union

Stopping Le Pen with the New Popular Front

Dave Kellaway — 2024-06-27T20:51:40Z

Two leaders of major European countries have both gambled on calling a snap election. Rishi Sunak's desperate move has merely confirmed and deepened the already existing wave of disgust and rejection of 14 years of Tory misrule in Britain. Political debate already assumes a Labour government with a big majority. Emmanuel Macron's surprise move after his party was defeated by Marine Le Pen's far-right, post-fascist RN (National Rally) party has detonated a bomb across the political spectrum in France.

- IV593 - June 2024 / France

The far right on the rise, the PSOE left in retreat

Jaime Pastor — 2024-06-26T20:35:00Z

The results of the European elections show a continuation of the relative polarisation between the two main blocs dominated by the PP and the PSOE, although the right-wing bloc in the Spanish state is strengthening, while the bloc supporting the progressive coalition government is weakening.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Spanish state

Is the drumbeat of war on the Israel/Lebanon front a prelude to all-out war?

Gilbert Achcar — 2024-06-25T21:39:59Z

Recent weeks have witnessed a sharp escalation of the exchange of fire between the Lebanese resistance and Israeli forces in South Lebanon/North of the Zionist state. This escalation has been accompanied by an escalation of statements and threats between the two sides, with increasing Israeli threats to launch an all-out war on all areas where Hezbollah is deployed and inflict on them a fate similar to that of the Gaza Strip in terms of the intensity of destruction.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Palestine, Israel, Lebanon

A People's Peace, not an Imperial Peace

Collective, Sotsialnyi Rukh — 2024-06-24T20:42:00Z

Joint declaration by ecosocialist, anarchist, feminist, environmental organisations, and groups in solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance and for a self-determined social and ecological reconstruction of Ukraine.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Ukraine

Breaking with labor, Teamster Leader O'Brien Accepts Trump's Invitation to Speak at Republican Convention

Dan La Botz — 2024-06-23T21:01:26Z

In a shocking development, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Sean O'Brien, has accepted an invitation from presidential candidate Donald J. Trump to speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC) July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

- IV593 - June 2024 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Rightwing alliance strengthened in Italy

Hélène Marra — 2024-06-22T21:07:00Z

The European election results illustrate, albeit in a distorted way, the serious social and political crisis that has followed decades of liberal austerity measures. It is above all the far right that is reaping the votes of the most disenchanted, who delusively believe that they can avoid downgrading by crushing those at the bottom and embracing the dangerous ideology of "national preference" and racism.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Italy, European Union

Down with the Government of National Unity; Unite and Defend Workers and the Poor

Zabalaza for Socialism (ZASO) — 2024-06-21T12:46:45Z

“We must stand in solidarity with workers and their unions to fight retrenchments and stand shoulder to shoulder with the women, LGBTI+ people and foreign nationals who bear the brunt of violence, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia.”

- IV593 - June 2024 / South Africa