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A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

Paul Martial — 2025-05-31T04:40:34Z

The ban on political parties in Mali is a further step in the consolidation of a dictatorship incapable of curbing jihadist attacks. From now on, all political parties in Mali will be dissolved. This was a recommendation of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the legislative body set up by the junta that seized power in 2021.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Mali

Labour panders to racism – playing the far right's game

Simon Hannah — 2025-05-30T05:37:27Z

When Keir Starmer was standing for Labour leader in 2020 after Jeremy Corbyn resigned, his slogan was “Another World is Possible”. This was a call back to the ideals and hope of the anti capitalist movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s before 9/11 made our world more reactionary, more dangerous, more cynical. As part of his bid for leadership to win over a membership that had only recently elected Corbyn twice over, Starmer gave a speech in which he outlined his view on immigration; “We welcome migrants, we don't scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of migrants… we have to make the case for the benefits of migration”.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Britain, Far Right, Racism and Islamophobia

Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

Left Bloc — 2025-05-29T08:52:35Z

National Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Portugal

South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

Collective — 2025-05-28T06:38:08Z

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump's sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who's seeking to extort favorable concessions for his Starlink operation in South Africa.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, South Africa

Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy

Paul Martial — 2025-05-27T09:13:05Z

Affirming France's presence in the Indian Ocean was the aim of French president Emmanuel Macron's trip to Madagascar on 23-24 April, 2025.The Grande Île is unique in that it is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is governed by billionaires who do not hesitate to provoke serious crises in order to gain power. The French president was received by Madagascar's president. Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey who has made a career in events management.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / France, Madagascar

Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt

Dan La Botz — 2025-05-26T09:32:55Z

The House of Representatives, dominated by the Republican Party, last week passed President Donald Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” as he calls it, by a vote of 215 to 214, giving tax cuts to the rich and more money to the military while reducing a variety of social programs for working-class and poor people.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA)

Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism

André Frappier, Bernard Rioux — 2025-05-25T09:19:49Z

While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Canada, Quebec

The Nakba intensifies. May our solidarity grow too!

Olivier Lek Laferrière — 2025-05-24T09:00:00Z

The casualty figures for Gaza have disappeared from the news, while the death toll continues to mount. Some people are used to it, or have been indifferent from the start. Others know that this information alone can no longer transform public opinion, let alone the actions of complicit leaders.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Palestine

Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite

Heinrich Neuhaus — 2025-05-23T13:47:39Z

Germany's latest variant of the GroKo (Grosse Koalition, Grand Coalition), with Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU) as Chancellor and Lars Klingbeil (SPD) as Vice-Chair, aims, according to the coalition agreement, to represent “responsibility for Germany”. Translated from political newspeak, this means that the amount of profits is untouchable.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Germany

What happened to the left in Ecuador?

Andrés Madrid — 2025-05-22T11:41:00Z

“The anti-capitalist left has not renewed its strategies after the October and June uprisings either. Its atomization and lack of material and intellectual resources prevent it from building a power project with its own identity. This vacuum paved the way for the Noboa clan to capitalize on the discontent.”

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecuador