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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.

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

Some thoughts on Orbán's defeat

Fabrizio Burattini — 2026-04-23T09:07:54Z

“The future of Hungary is in the hands of the thousands of young people who, since Sunday night, have invaded the streets of Budapest, in the civil society that is mobilizing and organizing, in the possibility that they will not stop there and not be satisfied with Magyar's victory.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Hungary

In defence of the popular vote against the Mafia

Jorge Escalante — 2026-04-22T09:22:11Z

The far-right mafia managed to reach the second round. To achieve this, they and the entire mafia pact in Congress forged a strategy to avoid being defeated again, as had happened in 2021. The strategy employed consisted of a series of measures that express the decay of bourgeois democracy as we know it and, at the same time, reflect anti-popular authoritarianism.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Peru

Living conditions and resistance in Lebanon

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard — 2026-04-21T09:26:56Z

“Nevertheless, there is today a left-wing sensibility in Lebanon, anti-imperialist, opposed to the occupation and which has concrete effects on the ground, limited but nevertheless real. It is trying to build something, in particular what could be called a form of civil resistance.”

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon