Promise Li on “Joanna Misnik: A Tribute and Political Biography ”. Jaime Pastor considers “Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso”.
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- 26 October – Marxism in theory and practice
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Ireland
Catherine Connolly wins: An historic victory for the left in Ireland
26 October, by Paul MurphyCatherine Connolly’s resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.
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Argentina
Will Trump’s bail-out be enough for Milei?
25 October, by Martin HacheOn Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.
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Algeria
Algerian feminists at the frontiers of solidarity
24 October, by Amel Hadjadj“On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”
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Greece
The return to slavery will not pass in Greece!
23 October, by Andreas SartzekisOn 1st October 1, a general strike was called in Greece by the GSEE (single private sector confederation), ADEDY (public sector federation) and many other federations and unions. It was very popular and focused on the rejection of a monstrous bill: allowing a13-hour working day for the same employer (we know that many Greeks have long been reduced to having two jobs).
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Middle East/North Africa
Morocco’s Gen Z and the Regional Volcano
22 October, by Gilbert AchcarThe movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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USA
Millions Protest Trump in Defense of Democracy and Social Justice
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South Asia
Social revolts and environmental issues in South Asia
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Peru
Thousands take to the streets of Peru following the fall of yet another government
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War and ecology
Agent Orange, a slow violence that still kills
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South Sudan
Get rid of leaders to stop war in South Sudan
Recently posted Features
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Obituary
Joanna Misnik: A Tribute and Political Biography
23 October, by Promise Liread article...Joanna Misnik (6 September 1943-3 September 2025) was a leading Fourth Internationalist in the United States for many decades. International Viewpoint published a number of tributes earlier. This substantive essay traces Joanna’s political life and underlines her important contribution.
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Marxism
Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso
22 October, by Jaime Pastorread article...The original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.
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USA-Brazil
Trump Tariffs Threaten Brazil: Pushing for Regime Change
19 October, by Gilberto Araújoread article...U.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump’s second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
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Militarization
From the "12-day war" to the NATO and EU summits: A leap forward in militarisation, under the orders of Trumpism
19 October, by Jaime Pastorread article...NATO’s joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc’s shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.
Fourth International
Tribute to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald
October 2025
On Saturday 11 October 2025, at the Buchenwald memorial and on the initiative of the association Les amis d’Arbeiter und Soldat, a tribute was paid to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald.
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Lecornu mark 2 – a government at war with working people
Statement by NPA-l’Anticapitaliste
October 2025
Lecornu 2 is a pure Macronist government, made up of technocrats, former Macron advisors, and also those under criminal investigation: Rachida Dati from the Culture Ministry soon to be tried for corruption and influence peddling; Vincent Jeanbrun, Minister of Housing, accused of favoritism in the allocation of housing to relatives.
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After Lecornu, let’s fight for a popular government of change!
October 2025
Statement by the NPA on 6 October. After the extre 48 hours Macron gave Sébastien Lecornu there is still no government. Left forces are meeting but without a result so far. The NPA-l’Anticapitaliste has addressed the forces of the NFP calling for unity. This was the first statement on 6 October.
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Free Nisar Shar and his colleagues!
October 2025
Senior lawyer Nisar Shah from Islamabad was arrested while demonstrating along with his 13 colleagues in a rally in solidarity with the protests in Kashmir against high wages for politicians organised by the lawyers association
- read article...Palestine/Brazil
Brazil Will Take to the Streets in Defense of Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla!
October 2025
Israel has decided to continue its attacks on the Palestinian people and those fighting for a Free Palestine, by illegally seizing, in international waters, the boats participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which Thiago Ávila and Greta Thunberg are involved.
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