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Trump, Miller Take away Immigrants' Rights, Sometimes Their Lives, but Resistance Continues

2026-06-01T09:42:39Z

While President Donald Trump is busy with a war on Iran, plans for Cuba, and his rebuilding of the White House, Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor, a rightwing racist, works relentlessly to arrest, imprison, and deport more immigrants and make America whiter. As they do, they continue to encounter resistance from politicians, lawyers, and protestors who oppose them, taking risks to do so.

- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA), Migration

France arms the war in Sudan

Paul Martial — 2026-05-31T12:09:05Z

A sophisticated French weapons system is being used in the conflict in Sudan, exposing the French government's violations of arms sales conventions.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / France, Sudan

Government brutalizes, the street protests in Belgium

Mateo Alaluf — 2026-05-30T06:10:23Z

Belgium has once again been paralysed by strikes. Tens of thousands of workers demonstrated in Brussels on Tuesday 12 May 2026, the day before the opening of the debates on the law and pension reform programme. Since the formation of the government, structured around the two major right-wing parties (the Flemish nationalists of the NVA and the “Trumpified” Francophone neoliberals of the MR- Mouvement réformateur), the trade union common front (Fédération générale du travail de Belgique-FGTB, Confédération des syndicats chrétiens-CSC and Confédération générale des syndicats libéraux-CGSLB) has been mobilising relentlessly and successfully. The conflict is primarily aimed at the federal government, but also at the federated entities, particularly with regard to education.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Belgium, Protest movements

The political economy of Ukraine's war and the politics of a coming bad peace

Adam Novak — 2026-05-29T13:32:13Z

What Moscow expected to be a war of weeks is now into its fifth year. Ukrainian railway workers, miners and energy crews keep the country running under Russian bombardment while Ukraine's oligarchic state will not ask the rich to pay for defence. This article documents the price the Ukrainian working class is paying, the feminised volunteer infrastructure carrying what the state will not, the mass anti-corruption mobilisations, and the stakes of a reconstruction now being designed in donor conferences.

- Features / Economy, Ukraine

The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine

Leila Serra Badran — 2026-05-29T13:26:05Z

“Feminism is not a Western invention: authenticity versus tradition, imported feminisms versus local feminisms.”

- Feminism / Palestine, Women, Features

What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?

Justa Montero — 2026-05-29T13:25:50Z

Feminism is pluralistic, with significant political and ideological differences, sometimes even antagonistic ones. Therefore, in this text I will always refer to the feminism that, with a global perspective, addresses the full range of conflicts generated by the system, which it considers its responsibility, and which expresses its desire to change everything through struggles that look toward an emancipatory horizon for everyone.
What is emancipatory about feminism, what hopes can it (…)

- Feminism / Women, Features

Code of Conduct against abuses: Two-Day Safeguarding Training Held by Bangladesh Krishok Federation

Badrul Alam — 2026-05-29T13:25:30Z

“An important outcome of the two-day training was the drafting of a preliminary Safeguarding Policy and a Code of Conduct for the Bangladesh Krishok Federation. The main objective of this policy is to ensure safety, dignity, and non-discriminatory behavior in the organization's work with staff members, activists, volunteers, women, children, and marginalized communities.”

- Feminism / Women, Bangladesh

Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction?

Kim Moody — 2026-05-29T13:24:55Z

“Right now, we are seeing an upswing in left and progressive movement activity in the fight against Trump, with No Kings Day, May Day Strong, and Anti-ICE activity, as well as significant union growth, tenants' unions, and the proliferation of union reform caucuses (among others). But there is the danger that—like the short-lived upsurge around Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the resistance during Trump's first term in office—much of this activity will burn out for lack of solid grassroots organization, only to leave another trail of undemocratic advocacy NGOs and a tiny number of socialist “electeds” swimming against the current in the Democratic Party.”

- Features / United States (USA), Marxism, Women, Economy

Dark clouds over Ethiopia

Paul Martial — 2026-05-29T09:25:48Z

Once again, a threat of civil war hangs over Ethiopia, opposing different factions to the detriment of the already badly wounded peoples.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Ethiopia

Notes on the Political Situation in South America

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Israel Dutra — 2026-05-28T06:34:16Z

“In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the presence of a so-called “middle” economy with its own influence in the region (Brazil), a tradition of struggle and organization on the left, and governments less subservient than the liberal right (such as those of Colombia, Brazil, and Uruguay), imperialist interventionism faces more obstacles and has to moderate its attacks. In light of important electoral processes and tests in the class struggle posed by far-right and right-wing governments, such as those in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is worth considering the commonalities across national contexts in the region in the coming months.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia