International Viewpoint

“Nevertheless, in the current situation, what is lacking is the building at the national level and in the cities of a common social and political front, defending an anti-capitalist alternative of social and financial choices in favour of the working classes, with a different sharing of wealth, a front relying on social dynamics to present itself as a direct political actor in the current situation.”

A look back at a controversy surrounding the British government's anti-migrant policies.

“Nuclear disaster is ongoing. The very existence of nuclear power is a threat to the survival of humanity not only in this region but also in the world.”

Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.

“The pressure of democratic public opinion is essential to save Maksym and the other prisoners sentenced by puppet courts or who are in the hands of the Russian army.”

“Iran in its current situation has become a powder keg. Given the depth of its internal contradictions, which permeate all levels of society, domestic protests aren't going anywhere.”

“Both the banking crisis of 2008 and the current one reveal the irrationality of the capitalist economic system based on private property in both the means of production and finance.”

“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”

“We must, as has been the case for the last two months, continue to build a social balance of forces equal to the popular rejection of Macron's reform. Today, he has his back to the wall, a situation that was unforeseeable a few months ago.”

Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.

“The current strike wave, in which hundreds of thousands of workers took action on Budget Day, shows us how working people can act as a group to challenge what the owners of the economy are against: decent wage increases and fixing our education, health, rail, postal, and other public services.”

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny.

“No cultural revolution, no return to the sources or ethnic, religious or national authenticity, claimed by the groups that demand them, can legitimize the persistence, imbued with idealization, of so-called traditional or ancestral values, which involve serious discrimination and inequality.”

“The opposition is denouncing massive fraud in a particularly chaotic election. But also hope, because millions of young people have seized on Peter Obi's candidacy to express their desire for change.”

“The Russia of my dreams is first and foremost a democratic society that has overcome atomization.”

“The use of racism and repression have once again become the basic techniques for maintaining power of a president whose legitimacy is falling apart at the seams.”

“Following an indecisive Democratic Party primary, an epic battle between left and right is shaping up in the election for mayor of the windy city.”

Soaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, as well as the care and ecological crises.

A view of mobilisations on International Women's Day.

“The mobilisation continues in France, with some unions threatening to declare ‘renewable' strikes where one- or two-day action can be reconfirmed and continued in an ongoing way. ”