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Latin America: Patterns and Pendulum

Marc Becker — 2026-09-13T06:05:37Z

RECENT ELECTIONS ACROSS across Latin America appear to have placed the hard right firmly back in power. While the landscape may appear to be dim for the left, other factors signal glimmers of hope.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Bolivia

Oppose the Takaichi Administration's Military Expansion and Constitutional Revision

Toshizo Omori — 2026-09-12T08:31:14Z

“These struggles for anti-war peace, the defense of working people's livelihoods, and the fight for climate justice in the face of a deepening climate crisis are unfolding in response to the multifaceted crises of the capitalist system. As these crises converge into a single unified front, our movements and struggles must likewise interconnect to form a powerful, single stream. The current situation demands nothing less.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), Russia, Japan, China, North Korea

Mexico: A Revolutionary Ride

Kit Wainer — 2026-09-11T19:47:31Z

“One of the book's great strengths is that it offers an empathetic look at the various political currents swirling through revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico.”

- Reviews section / Mexico, Reviews, Historical events and figures

“Fighting sexist and sexual violence means guaranteeing the place of women in the CGT”

Fanny Gallot, Raphaëlle Manière — 2026-09-11T19:34:44Z

Raphaëlle Manière is a railway worker in the Jura, where she works in the sales sector. She has a part-time trade union job. Since 2016, she has been in charge of the monitoring unit against sexist and sexual violence of the French trade union confederation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) . Former general secretary of the CGT Jura departmental union from 2010 to 2017, she also sat on the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) between 2015 and 2021, where she was (…)

- Feminism / France, Women, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Features

Russia's New Imperialism

Jean Batou — 2026-09-11T19:18:16Z

“A fascinating and highly topical book, which deserves to be read without fail.”

- Reviews section / Russia, Reviews, Features, Imperialism

9/11: A Quarter Century of Imperial War

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-09-11T10:03:06Z

“Absolutely, I hold on to hope, hope rooted in the new generation and its capacity to invent new forms of struggle, as we have seen recently with the Moroccan Gen Z movement, an extraordinary moment, with thousands of young people mobilising and using modern technology to coordinate their action. I make a crucial distinction between optimism and hope, they are not the same thing at all. Optimism is the belief that the best outcome will happen. Hope is the belief that a better outcome is possible, with no guarantee attached. I can keep hoping, while recognising that today the balance of evidence weighs heavily toward pessimism.”

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Syria, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen

The AfD just short of an absolute majority

Helmut Born — 2026-09-10T10:51:22Z

On 6 September a new Landtag was elected in Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt is the smallest of the territorial Länder by population, with 2.1 million people. It was clear in advance that there would be considerable changes. At the last Landtag election in 2021 the AfD, which the Saxony-Anhalt domestic intelligence service has classified as confirmed right-wing extremist, took over 20 per cent. In the run-up to this election the standing of the federal government of CDU and SPD reached a low point, as the opinion polls had made foreseeable. Accordingly the task for all the other parties was at least to prevent an absolute majority for the AfD, in percentages as well as in seats.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Germany

Gloria Steinem, prominent American feminist, 1934-2026

Dan La Botz — 2026-09-09T07:39:51Z

The passing of Gloria Steinem, the most celebrated of the US “second wave” feminists of the 1970s, provides an opportunity to consider both her life and work. Some on the left, such as Jenny Brown writing in Jacobin, have condemned Steinem as a “neoliberal” who used and misused the women's movement, disdaining the movement's radical wing, to advance her own career as self-proclaimed leader.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), Women

Eastern elections and Die Linke: anything but an all-party government

Thies Gleiss — 2026-09-08T06:18:26Z

After the results of the Saxony-Anhalt elections on 6 September the discussion on perspectives for the German left is even more important. In this prescient analysis, written shortly before the election, Thies Gleiss outlines the roots of the crisis.

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Germany, Far Right

'Nobody announces that democracy ends now'

Can Koçak, Ian Parker — 2026-09-07T12:50:49Z

Can Koçak of the Workers' Party of Turkey talks to Ian Parker about creeping fascism, the trap of elections, and what the left has to stop doing to itself.

- Features / Turkey, Features, Fascism