IVP602 - March 2025

Capitalism is in deep crisis, with extremely low growth rates. This is the basis for resolutely anti-social policies, increasingly authoritarian and predatory, as seen in the first months of the Trump presidency.

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF), is certainly a turning point for the DRC.

Uraz Aydin answers questions from Antoine Larrache about the mobilization currently building in Turkey after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, who is seen as Erdogan’s main rival in the race for the next presidential election.

The scale and intensity of this movement is unprecedented in Serbia’s recent history – and in the entire history of student movements in Europe. The students have gained widespread support in academia and beyond. Around 5,000 university professors signed an online letter of solidarity, and by the end of December 2024, 85 universities – 74 per cent of the country’s universities – had joined the protests. Farmers blocked Serbia’s main highway in December, and artists, high school students, teachers , education unions, lawyers , and media associations have also expressed their support, with 73 schools suspending classes in solidarity with the students .

Although with little media coverage, the war in Sudan remains the most costly conflict in the world from a humanitarian point of view: 11 million people have been displaced and half the population is in a situation of food insecurity. The creation of a parallel government has broken the unity of the Taqaddum coalition led by former minister Abdallah Hamdok from the transitional government which emerged from the Sudanese revolution.

Now that Trump has returned to the White House with far greater arrogance than during his first term, the possibility of re-escalating the war in Yemen with direct US involvement has become very real.

Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections was due in large part to declining support for the Democratic candidate from union members, African Americans, and Latino/a s suggesting a decline in class consciousness, working class solidarity, and the strengthening of masculinist and white racial identities. These are shocking not only because of Trump’s hostility to unions, working class problems, and his overt racism and sexism, but because these groups have long been part of the Democratic party voting bloc.

Jean-Michel Apathie, a well-known French mainstream columnist, was suspended from the RTL television channel on 5 March after pointing out that France had committed massacres during the colonisation of Algeria.

In the past few days, thousands of people across the United States have demonstrated in support of Mahmoud Khalil, an individual who has come to symbolize President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants, on Palestinians, on the Palestine solidarity movement, on universities, and on academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Following the appeal by Abudllah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), for his movement to lay down its arms, what are the prospects for the Kurdish people? L’Anticapitaliste spoke with Salih Azad, head of the Kurdish Democratic Centre in Marseille.