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US Antiwar Movement Grows Slowly Amid Political Confusion

4 days 5 hours ago

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have conducted a tremendously powerful air war against Iran which, as Iran responded and Israel also made war on Lebanon, quickly became a regional war bringing death and destruction to many Middle Eastern nations, killing thousands. Trump is now demanding Iran's “unconditional surrender” and the right to a role in choosing the country's future leaders. Elected as a candidate who opposed foreign wars and regime change, Trump has repeatedly betrayed his promises.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Iran
Dan La Botz

Nooshi – do you dare to do as Spain's Social Democrats have done?

5 days 19 hours ago

“What kind of leader is Nooshi, who does not dare to take a ‘clear and unambiguous' stance like the Spanish Social Democrats, whom she herself often praises?.”

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Spanish state, Sweden, Iran
Alex Fuentes

Last Year's International Women's Day, Ukraine

5 days 20 hours ago

LAST YEAR I celebrated International Women's Day in Lviv in Western Ukraine. It was the first women's march since the end of COVID and the beginning of the Russian reinvasion in 2022.

- Feminism / Women, Ukraine
Dianne Feeley

8th March and Revolutionary Socialism

5 days 20 hours ago

“Without organising women workers in hosieries, in jute mills, among hawkers, fighting for their rights, 8th March loses its significance. Today, when neoliberalism and Hindutva-fascism is sharpening assaults, women's rights must also be placed within the context of fighting that.”

- Feminism / Women, India
Radical Socialist

France: 1995 - the feminist conquest of the social movement

5 days 20 hours ago

“At a time when we would like to see “surging” mobilizations in the face of an exponential rise of the far right, we take a closer look at what the feminist mobilizations of the autumn of 1995 can teach us about the possibilities of unity today.”

- Feminism / France, Women, Historical events and figures
Ingrid Darroman

8 March: Long Live Women in Struggle Against the Far Right

5 days 21 hours ago

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.

- Feminism / Fourth International, Women
Fourth International International Committee

A war neglected by the world — Afghanistan and Pakistan

6 days 21 hours ago

The recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been overshadowed by the attack on Iran by U.S. and Israeli imperialism. Yet the Afghan-Pakistan war, which began 21-22 February 2026 has resulted in heavy causalities on both sides. It was launched by the Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on Eastern Afghanistan (Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces).

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Pakistan, Afghanistan
Farooq Tariq

In the time of predators

1 week ago

The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Venezuela, Cuba, Latin America
Antoine Larrache, Franck Gaudichaud, Héctor A. Rivera

Lyes Touati released, a victory for popular solidarity

1 week 1 day ago

Imprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Algeria
Mhand Ouchene

When Russia draws its cannon fodder from Africa

1 week 2 days ago

Victims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Africa
Paul Martial

Trump Launches War on Iran: Will Americans Support It?

1 week 4 days ago

President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America's “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump has launched just such a war on Iran and the question is: Will his base and the American people support or even tolerate it?

- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Iran
Dan La Botz

Neither Islamabad nor Kabul: A Left Perspective on the Pakistan–Afghanistan War

1 week 4 days ago

As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan's defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad's Afghanistan policy appears under severe strain. Is this merely another episode in a volatile frontier relationship — or the blowback of decades of militarised strategy and proxy politics?

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Pakistan, Afghanistan
Farooq Sulehria

France: Right-wing offensive follows killing

1 week 5 days ago

Since 12 February 2026, after a clash in Lyon between a group of antifa and a group of fascists that resulted in the death of one of the latter, France has taken a sordid turn in a campaign of demonization and criminalization of La France Insoumise (LFI), the left wing party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is directly accused of being politically responsible for the death of this person.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / France, Far Right
Léon Crémieux
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