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The crossroads of the Portuguese left

3 weeks 2 days ago

On the left, there is an urgent need to return to basics, where door-to-door canvassing and grassroots work in factories and schools are not just carried out during election periods, but because they are an effective way of countering misinformation and laying the foundations for changing the material reality and deepening the reality of activism. Toupeira Vermelha – The Red Mole, a collective of militants of the Fourth International

- Features / Portugal
Toupeira Vermelha

10 September: building a mass movement to break with Macron and his world

3 weeks 3 days ago

The mobilization on 10 September was a success. It provides a springboard for building a mass movement for radical change in France.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / France
Antoine Larrache

Nepal protests have deeper roots

3 weeks 5 days ago

Under the right conditions, a spark can start a prairie fire. Protests against a social media in Nepal ban grew into a full blown uprising after police killed 19 protesters. Houses of prominent politicians were attacked, the parliament set on fire and the government is in shambles. But what is next?

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Nepal, Protest movements
Alex de Jong

The Indonesian Protests Are a Revolt Against Oligarchy

3 weeks 6 days ago

The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he's been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country's capital.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Protest movements
Michael G. Vann

Côte d'Ivoire: Exclusion of main opponents in presidential election

4 weeks ago

The exclusion of the main opposition candidates from the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire on 25 October 2025 casts a shadow over the vote and fuels the risk of political violence in a country marked by a long history of electoral crises.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Côte d'Ivoire
Paul Martial

Trump Wants a More Militaristic, Bellicose America

4 weeks 1 day ago

President Donald Trump last week renamed the U.S. Department of Defense, announcing that it is now the Department of War. The name change suggests that Trump wants a more warlike country, despite his claims that he is a peacemaker. In fact, the Trump administration already has a remarkable record of military action in various regions of the world.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Stand with Peasants and Rural Communities in the wake of the 2025 worst ever floods

1 month ago

Worst ever flood at River Ravi for 38 years, hundreds of villages affected across Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej belts. Kartarour complex (a place of worship for Sikh community, located inside Pakistan, where Indians can come without visa) submerged. Over 800 killed, thousands injured, eight districts of Punjab under water.

- News from around the world / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, Solidarity after disasters
Farooq Tariq

Gaza: An undeniable genocide, a criminal complicity

1 month ago

Two years after the genocide in Gaza began, the population is suffering from relentless bombing, organized starvation and attacks on journalists and relief workers. Israeli propaganda, relayed by its allies, no longer masks the colonial and genocidal character of its policies, while Palestinian and international resistance continues.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Palestine
Édouard Soulier

Türkiye: From the Kurdish movement to mass mobilizations

1 month ago

On the occasion of the agreement on the dissolution of the PKK, Uraz Aydin presents the history of this movement and the evolution of the protest against the Erdoğan regime.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Turkey, Kurdistan
Uraz Aydin

Return from Ukraine

1 month ago

The Nordic left is making great strides in its thinking on questions of popular defence and security in Europe. This reflection is nourished by its sustained and permanent commitment in favour of Ukraine. It actively supports Ukrainian trade unions and social movements as well as progressive anti-fascist fighters who combat Russian imperialism.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Denmark, Ukraine
Bjarke Friborg

More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada

1 month ago

After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers' right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Canada, Trade unions/workplace organizing
David Camfield

Trump Fires Top Officials, Seizes Control of American Cities

1 month 1 week ago

Many of us were on vacation last month, but President Donald Trump was hard at work, dismantling American democracy and creating a reactionary authoritarian state. Trump, in an attempt to take personal and absolute control of the federal government in unprecedented moves of dubious legality, terminated three top level government officials.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Message of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) to Freedom Flotilla

1 month 1 week ago

We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Having lived through invasion, occupation, forced displacement, and separation from our loved ones, many of us know too well what these mean.

- News from around the world / Palestine, Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh

Brazilian activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla

1 month 1 week ago

The Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail on 31 August heading for Gaza via Tunis in yet another attempt to break the blockade. Internationally-known figures such as Greta Thunberg, actor Susan Sarandon and Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, will be aboard. [1] As will Fourth Internationalist activists from Brazil and Ireland.

- News from around the world / Palestine, Brazil
Movimento Esquerda Socialista
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