After 5 November, the government has been weakened, but the movement faces a second phase.

After Israel's election, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot may have to lean on Arab parties to form a coalition. But even the opposition is unlikely to back away from Israel's war with Iran and efforts to annex Gaza.

What the Brazilian working class, especially our younger segment, achieved over this past month will be remembered as one of the greatest electoral victories in history.

“This tragedy has therefore occurred in a context where these speeches of the current leaders of the RN can spread in the media, without provoking the reactions that the declarations of Jean Marie Le Pen still provoked in the 1990s. The reason for this is simple. The political class, in its vast majority, now wishes to integrate the far right, the RN, as a respectable political force with which government agreements can be built and which can even, as in Italy, assume the leadership of a government. ”

This autumn in Italy, in the wake of the protests taking place across the globe, is characterised by a growing sense of awareness amongst the younger generations and their taking to the streets.

On 21 October 2026 mobilisations for education took place in several Greek cities. In Athens, the demonstration brought together around 10,000 people. Solidarity with French youth combines with deep anger: dilapidated institutions, development of private universities, exclusion of students from the public, authoritarian evaluation of teachers and private courses that bleed families.

“We want to stay here,” Rejn, an 18-year-old student, told Reporterre. In Albania, young people are revolting against unemployment, corruption and the lack of prospects. Since 13 October, university and high school students have been demonstrating in Tirana and several other cities. Their demand: the departure of prime minister Edi Rama, in power since 2013.

This year's midterm election cost both major parties $12 billion—an all-time record. Politicians depend on this money to win elections, and this way donors buy candidates and parties.

“We envision a movement in which the youth take a leading role, joined by leftist and progressive organisations, defense fronts, various social movements, the Confederación General de Trabajadores del Perú (General Confederation of Workers of Peru, the largest trade union), Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú (the Unified Union of Education Workers of Peru), women's groups, neighbourhood associations, professional bodies, workers, and the Peruvian people as a whole.”

By excluding a critic and arresting protesters, the British state is enforcing its own definition of the public good.

The world is on fire with the spirit of resistance. We are seeing mass protests from India to the Spanish state demanding the right to live, to work and to learn in decent conditions. We are seeing strong resistance to the far right - for example in the magnificent victory of Lula-, across the planet. Young people from France to Brazil are in the forefront of these protests. Thousands upon thousands of people are visiting IVP to understand what's going on and see what revolutionaries are fighting for. - so we need to upgrade our systems.

In the closing weeks and days of the November US “midterm election” campaigns, the likelihood that the Democratic party will win enough local elections to give them a majority in the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, has significantly increased as the Republicans find themselves on the defensive in several formerly “safe” electoral districts including some which have not seen a Democratic victory in decades.

October was a month of the streets, and this issue follows a wave of youth and housing protest across southern and western Europe while three elections went against the right. In France, Léon Crémieux traces the groundswell that threatens Macron, from the secondary-school blockades to 17 October, "a historic day of mobilization" comparable to the pension protests of 2023; Olivier Besancenot finds reasons to believe, Antoine Larrache judges the movement stronger from the outset than the 2006 fight against the CPE, and NPA-l'Anticapitaliste demands the resignation of the ministers Nuñez and Geffray over the repression of pupils. Crémieux's second piece asks where class-struggle trade unionism stands as 2027 approaches.

Given the massive turnout (including a multitude of young people) at the few demonstrations that were able to take place on the weekend of October 24-25 in France (some authorized, others not, such as in Bordeaux and Marseille), as well as the one organized against the National Rally congress in Orléans (20,000 demonstrators), it is clear that the social protest movement that began in September reached a turning point on October 17. With the next major event scheduled for November 5, with the call for strikes and demonstrations against all the anti-social measures of the Lecornu government, tensions continue to rise in France.

In this three-part series, Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. This initial installment provides a contextual overview of artificial intelligence as it is known in current political discourse and discusses both the financial and existential “hype” around AI. The second will explore AI's connection to global labor and imperialism struggles, and the third will propose organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.

“The great merit of this essay by Salvatore Cannavò – a fascinating analysis of two centuries of political experience and intellectual history – lies in rediscovering the richness and relevance of a long-forgotten tradition: the workers' cooperative and mutual aid movement.”

The dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do not lie in the technological development itself, but in its management by uncontrolled economic powers. To counter this risk, there are “only” two strategies: collective struggle and political resistance in order to remove technology from purely extractive and capitalist logics.

“The Student List has achieved a result that, until recently, seemed almost unimaginable. The nature of this victory and Serbia's political future are difficult to grasp through conventional categories—such as government versus opposition, liberalism versus conservatism, or European integration versus national sovereignty.”

For the last two years, President Donald Trump's Republican Party controlled not only the presidency, but also both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as many state governments. Trump appeared to be politically omnipotent. Now the American people have turned against Trump and it seems likely that the Republican Party will face defeat in the midterm elections on November 3, breaking Trump's hold on Congress. It is a remarkable reversal of fortune brought about by Trump's own hubris.

The French trade union movement, and more particularly the trade unionism of social transformation, with which the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires explicitly identify, is today confronted with several important strategic questions.