Ukrainian union leader comments on U.S. left
1 day 1 hour ago
Aleksandr Skyba, Oakland Socialist
The imperial engine of fascism
1 day 1 hour ago
The far right is on the rise all over the world. Faced with this dynamic, the left is particularly at loggerheads over the right way to describe it: some fringes use the term fascism, while others consider that such a characterisation lacks lucidity. In a number of countries, the far right is now installed in government – at its head or in a coalition. When it has not formally acceded to power, its ideological hegemony over public debate pulls (even more) to the right a ruling class radicalized by the generalized crisis of capitalism. On the left, a lively debate has then opened up concerning the right way to characterise this dynamic: is it relevant to speak of fascisation, or even fascism?
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Features
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Far Right,
Fascism
Antoine Dubiau
Swedish Dockworkers' Union Leader Sacked for Gaza Solidarity Action
1 day 2 hours ago
Arthur Neslen
He's suddenly a risk to ‘national security'
1 day 2 hours ago
“Solidarity actions like these have a long history. It was Swedish dockworkers who first refused to handle cargo from Chile after the coup d'etat and installation of Pinochet, and who pioneered the Swedish boycott on South African cargo in solidarity with the anti-apartheid movement.”
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Features
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Palestine,
Sweden,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Polly Smythe
French Dockers Block Weapons to Israel
1 day 3 hours ago
On Wednesday 4 June, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel's war crimes.
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Features
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Palestine,
France,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Kadal Jesuthasan
Germany and the Repressive Apparatus Against the Pro-Palestinian Movement: the Case of Berlin
1 day 3 hours ago
Roser Garí Pérez
Germany's Enslavement to Its Past Kept It Silent on Gaza for Far Too Long
1 day 3 hours ago
Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said "Never Again," and now: "again," with arms, with funding, with silence. There is no country that should be better than Germany at "discerning nauseating processes." Every German knows much more about them than Yair Golan. Here in Israel they are in full swing, yet Germany has not yet recognized them for what they are. It was only recently that it woke up too late and to too little effect.
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Features
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Germany,
Israel
Gideon Levy
‘Brazil must set the example': Unions, MPs urge Lula to cut ties with Israel over Gaza genocide
1 day 3 hours ago
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva needs to shift from words to action and break ties with Israel over its ongoing war on Gaza — that is the message coming from a growing number of trade unions, left parliamentarians, intellectuals and artists.
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Features
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Palestine,
Brazil
Federico Fuentes
Opposing War and Warmongering Policies
1 day 4 hours ago
Collective
On the illegal Israeli aggression against Iran
1 day 22 hours ago
Radical Socialist
Because it won't be the last blackout: What energy model and distribution system for the ecological transition?
2 days 8 hours ago
The blackout of April 28 shook the Iberian Peninsula and southern France for several hours. Everyone who lives there was affected in some way. It has been a topic of conversation that, to avoid remaining an anecdote, requires some in-depth analysis, given the systemic risks of a repeat. We must draw lessons for the future.
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IVP605 - June 2025
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Spanish state,
Ecology and the Environment,
Public services
Daniel Albarracín
No Kings! Freedom! Millions Protest Trump across the United States
3 days 7 hours ago
At least five million people participated in 2,000 “No Kings Day” protests in big cities and small towns in all 50 states, the largest yet in a series of national demonstrations. In a festive but defiant spirit, with bands and drummers, the marchers chanted, sang songs, and waved their signs with slogans like “No Kings since 1776” or signs opposing President Donald Trump's attacks on health care, food programs for children and the elderly, or his attacks on education and science. Some banners read “Fight Oligarchy.”
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IVP605 - June 2025
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United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections
4 days ago
The results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections on 18 May 2025 mark a turning point in the country's politics. The traditional right was comfortably in the lead and the Socialist Party has fewer deputies than the far right (after counting the votes of the emigrant constituencies). The right-wing parties as a whole won two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, while the left obtained the lowest result in its history.
All the parties to the left of the PS recorded their lowest results. (…)
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IVP605 - June 2025
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Portugal
Daniel Borges
The battle of Los Angeles
5 days ago
As "No Kings" protests take place across the US - and in other cities worldwide such as Mexico DF, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - challenging Trump's authoritarian rule, we publish this on the spot account of last weekend in Los Angeles.
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IVP605 - June 2025
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United States (USA)
Tempest Collective
Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group
5 days 19 hours ago
UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.
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News from around the world
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Palestine,
Ireland,
Egypt
People Before Profit
Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...
6 days 6 hours ago
Resistance to the Russian invasion has not erased class divisions within Ukrainian society. The inequalities of our capitalist societies and the brutal neoliberalism applied by the Zelensky government are significantly affecting the population of Ukraine. The popular classes thus fight on a "double front", against anti-social policies and imperialist aggression.
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IVP605 - June 2025
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Ukraine
Gin Vola, Elias Vola
Student protest in Serbia: “either we stop or there will be a civil war”
1 week ago
Since November 2024, Serbian students have been leading an unprecedented revolt against Vučić's corrupt government. Along with two Belgian comrades from the Gauche Anticapitaliste, I went to Belgrade to meet them.
In front of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy, a table and camping chairs were set up. A dozen or so students wrapped up in duvets were watching the entrance. On the table were sudokus and packets of cigarettes to pass the time. The students take 8am shifts to secure the faculty, (…)
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IVP605 - June 2025
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Serbia,
Youth and student movements
Gaëlle Guehennec
Left fails to win its referendums in Italy
1 week 1 day ago
“All five referendums were lost because none reached the quorum of 50% of the electorate. Around 88-89% who voted supported the progressive changes to the labour laws but this went down by 33 percentage points for the change to the citizenship process for immigrants.”
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IVP605 - June 2025
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Italy,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Dave Kellaway
Peace under threat in South Sudan
1 week 2 days ago
There is a significant risk that South Sudan could once again plunge into widespread conflict, on top of a major financial crisis.
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IVP605 - June 2025
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South Sudan
Paul Martial
ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!
1 week 2 days ago
“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”
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News from around the world
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United States (USA),
Migration
Solidarity National Committee
Checked
10 minutes 25 seconds ago
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