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Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians' Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims

Indonesian Women's Alliance (API) — 2025-08-31T08:26:43Z

The death of Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver who participated in mass action and was run over by security apparatus vehicles, cannot be viewed as an isolated incident. This event is part of the face of systematic state violence; the apparatus is used to silence the people's voices with impunity that continues to be allowed.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Women, Indonesia, Protest movements

Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine

Helene Vadsten — 2025-08-30T08:15:00Z

The Ukrainian left acts where official systems fail. Bjarke Friborg and Helene Vadsten visited Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Here is Helene's accout of the visit.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Denmark, Ukraine

If only land were expropriated in South Africa…

Fani Ncapayi, Mercia Andrews — 2025-08-29T14:08:50Z

South Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa's Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa, Farmers/peasants/land

Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North's Indifference

Gilbert Achcar — 2025-08-28T11:18:46Z

The famines in Gaza and Sudan: how they compare and what lessons can be drawn from the world powers' inaction towards them.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan

Negotiations in Alaska

Posle — 2025-08-27T16:59:10Z

Does Trump's peace deal have a future?

- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine

Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025

Nora Rhiannon — 2025-08-26T12:22:38Z

The more I talk with cis people on the left, the more I realise how out of touch they are with the realities faced by the trans community. Whenever the discrimination we face enters conversations, a chorus of voices responds to tell everyone that “the left” needs to “prioritise working class issues” and not be “distracted” from “genuine material concerns”. In the interest of educating cis comrades who've been misled by this framing, today we're going to use a mix of studies, surveys and anecdotal evidence to explore the life of the average trans person in Wales. Let's see how well the picture of trans people as comfortable middle class ideologues holds up to scrutiny…

- IVP607 - August 2025 / LGBT, Cymru/Wales

Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories

Siyabulela Mama — 2025-08-25T08:51:11Z

The closure of Goodyear in Kariega (formerly called Uitenhage) is more than just another company shutting its doors. It is a brutal reminder of the structural crisis facing South Africa's working class. Factories, once held as pillars of stability, are now abandoned shells, as corporations chase profits across borders, discarding workers like disposable tools.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / South Africa

Syria's future won't be secure through Israel normalisation

Joseph Daher — 2025-08-24T16:55:56Z

As al-Sharaa leads Syria further towards normalisation with Israel, Joseph Daher argues that alignment with the US & its allies won't bring lasting stability.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Syria, Israel

Trump's Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC

Malik Miah — 2025-08-23T06:41:39Z

IN A LONG rant of over 70 minutes at an August 10 news conference, Trump claimed that the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia

Women in the Shadow of Global Fascism: The Narrative of an Afghan Girl & a Truth Which Knows No Boundaries

Azadeh Omid — 2025-08-22T19:48:45Z

For the past four years, I have been breathing in a country where the sky is constantly collapsing on women's heads. As an Afghan girl, I welcome each sunrise not knowing whether I will see sunset on that day. In the ominous shadow of the Taliban, being a woman is not only a limitation but a crime, a crime whose punishment is exclusion from social and human life.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Women, Afghanistan