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Towards the General Strike in Portugal - Only the strength of those who work can halt the labour package

Toupeira Vermelha — 2025-11-30T08:20:04Z

The “Draft labour-law reform bill” (the so-called labour package) is a set of more than one hundred regressive amendments to the Portuguese Labour Code presented by the Government of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP)2, with the support of the Liberal Initiative (IL) and CHEGA, the far-right party. This package constitutes a deliberate and planned programme of rolling back labour rights in Portugal, reviving the offensive launched by Pedro Passos Coelho's Government during the Troika years (2012–2015)3.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Mamdani's Victory: what way forward to build the US socialist movement?

Kay Mann — 2025-11-29T06:30:30Z

Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York city mayoral elections has energized the left, enraged Trump (who seems to be trying to coopt him after denouncing him as a “communist” and threatening to cut off federal funding to New York), and stimulated debate on the left regarding independent political action and the use of the Democratic party ballot line.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / United States (USA)

From progressive decline to reactionary advance in Chile

Karina Nohales, Pablo Abufom — 2025-11-28T08:39:28Z

The first round confirms the shift of the electorate towards right-wing positions —with Kast consolidated as leader of the bloc— in a regional context marked by the expansion of reactionary forces.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Chile

Political instability in France: act before it's too late

Elsa Collonges — 2025-11-27T11:29:34Z

The global crisis of capitalism and its ecological dimension are provoking a major political crisis. In the countries of the Global North, and in France in particular, the bourgeoisie is seeking to settle accounts with the post-World War II social compromise, violently and rapidly.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / France

The Unity List remains Copenhagen's largest party

Jonathan Simmel — 2025-11-26T07:47:09Z

Local and regional elections have been held in Denmark, and the Unity List [known internationally as the Red Green Alliance] has once again become Copenhagen's largest party. The Social Democrats lost the mayoralty to the Socialist People's Party and lost ground in 86 of 98 municipalities. The results clearly reflect the national political scene, where the Social Democrats chose to form a majority government with two bourgeois parties in 2022.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Denmark

Six Lawmakers Tell U.S. Troop: Don't Obey Illegal Orders

Dan La Botz — 2025-11-25T14:57:00Z

“ The six Democrats by making their video have challenged Trump and they have done a great service to our country, to those in the military, and to those at home or abroad who might be victims.”

- IVP610 - November 2025 / United States (USA)

Britain – difficulties and opportunities...

Veronica Fagan — 2025-11-24T07:33:17Z

The last weekend of November will see a major conference take place in the city of Liverpool in the north west of England. Fronted by former Labour MP Zara Sultana and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and with more than 50,000 sign ups, this will formally launch a new political party. The proto-formation currently has the clumsy, name of Your Party but the membership will at some later point decide whether and how to rename it.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Britain, New parties of the left

Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice

Oleksandr Kyselov — 2025-11-23T09:36:57Z

Exhausted by over three years of Russian attacks, Ukrainians are increasingly ready to accept unfair political compromises and harsh territorial concessions to end the war. Yet it's far from clear that this hard choice will actually bring lasting peace.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Ukraine

Notes on the historic rise of the far right in Britain

Thierry Labica — 2025-11-22T09:31:03Z

“In Britain, the various shades of the far right can continue to content themselves with continuing and prospering the work of political formations that have long been hegemonic and are now both in the grip of a crisis of legitimacy of unprecedented gravity. ”

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Britain, Far Right

Between Trump's imperialist offensive and Maduro's repression

Y.B. and F.G. — 2025-11-21T07:47:02Z

Since August, at least 70 people have been killed by strikes by the U.S. armed forces on boats mainly from the Venezuelan coast, in the Caribbean Sea, under the pretext of the fight against narcoterrorism.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / United States (USA), Venezuela