IVP610 - November 2025

In a recent interview, Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights reporting to the President of the Russian Federation, admitted to having ‘taken in’ and ‘re-educated’ a Ukrainian teenager. At the time, she mentioned around 20,000 similar cases.

The Trump administration fired Carla Hayden, the first African American and first woman librarian of Congress, by text message.

Much of the commentary on the results of the Dutch elections of October 29 can be summarised as “the centre is back”. However, the fact that the centrist party D66 won significantly while Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV lost 11 seats is by no means a decisive change in the political pattern of the Netherlands. With 26 out of 150 seats, the PVV now has the same number as seats as D66. And for the Dutch left, there is even less reason to celebrate.

“In his victory speech Mamdani told his supporters that as mayor, ‘We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks’. Directly addressing the president, he said, ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So, hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.’”

Filipinos in the country (and worldwide) are enraged by the devastation brought by the recent typhoon Tino, with the international name Kalmaegi (November 4, 2025).

A year after the collapse of the canopy of the Novi Sad train station, which killed 16 people, the Serbian political landscape has been radically shaken by a student social movement of an intensity not seen in decades. A delegation from the Fourth International, composed of comrades from the GA (Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgium) and the NPA-A (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, France), went to meet political, trade union, associative and student activists, to build bonds of solidarity with them and to bring their words back to our countries.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado (MCM) sparked an unusual debate on social media. However, the arguments for and against are more driven by emotion than by reason. Is it possible to approach Venezuelan reality solely in a Manichean way, from the perspective of polarization?

This brief essay analyzes the political character of the newly formed Takaichi administration and the framework of Japan’s immediate political situation, situating it within the broader international political context. It also seeks to clarify the challenges and tasks facing the left.

Wednesday 22 October marked exactly three years since Giorgia Meloni took office at Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the Italian Prime Minister. Her appointment was the result of the predictable but nonetheless disastrous election results of September 2022, when the right-wing coalition (of which Fratelli d’Italia was by far the largest party) won thanks to a significant abstention rate (36%) but above all thanks to an anti-proportional representation law passed by previous centre-left governments and the deep division between the other political forces that formed the diverse opposition front in parliament.

The Gabès chemical complex was created in 1972 to transform raw phosphate extracted from the Gafsa mines into manufactured chemicals, ready for use in industry and agriculture, such as "phosphoric acid", ammonite, ammonium phosphate and ammonium diphosphate fertilizer.