2 weeks 3 days ago
In her election night statement, Mariana Mortágua emphasized that despite the turn to the right in the electoral results, the Bloco managed to resist, maintaining its mandates and with more votes than in 2022.
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News from around the world
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Portugal
Bloco de Esquerda
2 weeks 4 days ago
Dan La Botz
2 weeks 5 days ago
Romania, today the largest Balkan country, has undergone profound changes in gender norms and relations since its founding as a state in 1864. Until 1932 most women were second-class citizens, and suffrage for the entire female population came with the communist takeover after 1944.
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IV590 - March 2024
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Women,
Romania
Maria Bucur
2 weeks 6 days ago
“Women refuse to be reduced to the role of collateral victims of war or designated targets. We demand a place for women in decision-making in global conflicts. We reaffirm the importance of an international and autonomous women's movement.”
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IV590 - March 2024
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Women
Feminist Commission NPA
3 weeks ago
While there have been many mobilizations in Greece in recent years, the paralysis of the unions and the inability of the left to offer outlets are at the heart of the difficulties of the workers' movement, with the overwhelming responsibility lying with Syriza.
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IV590 - March 2024
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Greece
Andreas Sartzekis
3 weeks 1 day ago
“The BSW may achieve some initial successes at the electoral level, but it will not be the success of a left-wing party, nor will it foster the emergence of such a left-wing party.“
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IV590 - March 2024
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Germany
Thies Gleiss
3 weeks 2 days ago
Jakob Schaefer
3 weeks 3 days ago
“For us, honouring them means understanding the depth of the convictions that guided their actions in France and their participation in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.”
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Features
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France,
Historical events and figures
Patrick Le Moal
3 weeks 3 days ago
“On March 2, an International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, hundreds of thousands around the world demonstrated for a ceasefire. We marched in 85 American cities, including Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and in rainy New York City.”
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IV590 - March 2024
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Palestine,
United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
3 weeks 4 days ago
The war in Gaza continues, with its procession of horrors, but also with significant solidarity mobilizations and significant resistance in Palestine. Gilbert Achcar addresses this situation and the avenues for building resistance against Israel and its accomplices, the far right and imperialism.
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IV590 - March 2024
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Palestine,
MENA (Middle East/North Africa),
Israel
Gilbert Achcar
3 weeks 5 days ago
For several weeks now, the student movement, which has engaged in an impressive mobilization to reject the bill to create private universities, has been seeking to join its struggle to those of the workers‘ movement and farmers. Last week, a “raid on Athens“ by caravans of tractors brought together 10,000 demonstrators in solidarity with the student collectives and PAME, the trade union branch of the KKE (Greek Communist Party).
On Wednesday 28 February, we moved up a gear, with an (...)
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IV590 - March 2024
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Greece,
Youth and student movements,
Public services
Andreas Sartzekis
3 weeks 6 days ago
Dave Kellaway, Mariana Mortagua
4 weeks ago
“The ICJ case, however, is not about the character of the Hamas attack, but about whether Israel's state terrorism in Gaza amounts to “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,” its population.”
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IV589 - February 2024
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Palestine,
Israel
Against the Current Editors
1 month ago
The rise of a new McCarthyism in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world, fueled by the drive to quell criticism of Israel over its genocidal war against Palestine, is producing an unprecedented level of suppression of free speech and expression — both inside and outside of the academy.
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IV589 - February 2024
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Palestine,
United States (USA),
Israel
Peter Hudis
1 month ago
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now essential for companies to continue to grow and maintain their competitive advantage in our society. In addition, AI technology is becoming an integral part of our daily lives because of the constant and rapid technological advancements. As a result, the technology is beginning to have an impact on various sectors of society.
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IV589 - February 2024
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Economy
Yong-hui Hong
1 month ago
Incarcerated by a Greek dictator, narrowly escaping the Nazis in occupied France, and tried and convicted of aiding the Algerian revolution in the Netherlands in 1961: never a dull moment for the well-dressed revolutionary Mihalis Raptis. Hall Greenland has written a sympathetic but critical biography of the man better known as Michel Pablo, long-time secretary of the Fourth International.
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Reviews section
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Marxism,
Fourth International,
Algeria,
Reviews
Herman Pieterson
1 month ago
Kohei Saito has become an important voice in the debates about Marxism and ecosocialism. His books deal with four key issues: the relation between capitalism and nature; between ecology and socialism; the agents and means of attaining ecosocialism (or degrowth communism) and the evolution of Marx's views regarding these issues.
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Reviews section
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Ecology and the Environment,
Reviews,
Ecosocialism
Rafael Bernabe
1 month ago
The newest addition of the planned seventeen volumes of the writing of Rosa Luxemburg, including thousands of pages that have only recently been identified and have never been available in English, is a critical contribution to our understanding of her life and work.
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Reviews section
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Marxism,
Reviews
Robert Ovetz
1 month ago
Dan La Botz
1 month ago
Simon Pirani
Checked
7 minutes 55 seconds ago
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