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“We want to be able to look further than the end of the month”

1 day 9 hours ago

Parliamentary elections will take place in Portugal on Sunday 18 May. This report on a Left Bloc electoral meeting gives a flavour of the campaign.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Portugal
Esquerda.net

“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”

2 days 11 hours ago

Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia's war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Russia, China
Gilbert Achcar , Ilya Budraitskis

The fight for democracy, social justice, and equality in the Caucasus

4 days 3 hours ago

The country of Georgia, a small nation of 3.8 million people in the Caucasus, has been thrown into a profound crisis. Its people have risen up against the ruling party, Georgian Dream, over the passage of its Russia-style “foreign influence law,” homophobic anti-LGBTQ propaganda law, rigging of the recent election, and suspension of accession talks for membership in the EU.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Georgia
Ashley Smith, Collective

What Will an American Pope Mean for the US?

5 days 3 hours ago

The conclave of cardinals has for the first time elected a pope from the USA, a man who has been critical of the policies of President Donald Trump and Vice-president J.D. Vance. What will the choice of this American to be head of the Catholic Church mean for the US?

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Religion
Dan La Botz

Francis. The Pope Who Spoke Softly—and Carried the Same Big Stick

5 days 11 hours ago

Pope Francis was better than his predecessors. He integrated climate change into the Church's concerns and widened space for discussion of social justice. His reign as Pope left the Catholic Church a marginally better place for the poor and the weak. He named more Cardinals from the Global South, where most Catholics live.

- Features / Religion
Adam Novak

The Unexpected Pope

5 days 11 hours ago

The Marxist scholar proposes a reading of the ruptures that marked Francis's papacy, particularly his commitment to the poor and his ecological sensitivity. Was Bergoglio merely a parenthesis in the long history of the Catholic Church or the beginning of a different path?

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Religion
Michael Löwy

From the front line: a critical look at Indo Pak War 2025

6 days 8 hours ago

On the morning of 7 May, when I answered my doorbell and went outside looking for who rang, my neighbor loudly asked me to turn off all my lights. This command signaled to me that we are living in a moment of war.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Pakistan, India
Farooq Tariq

Ukrainian socialist: Five main problems with the US-Ukraine mineral deal

1 week ago

The minerals deal signed between Ukraine and the United States reflects US capital's desire to gain unhindered access to Ukraine's mineral resources. It also gives the US new leverage over Ukraine's economic and political situation. In contrast, there are no obvious benefits for Ukraine, despite it ceding sovereignty.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Ukraine
Vitaliy Dudin

Syria: Fishing in Troubled Waters

1 week 1 day ago

Israel has accustomed us to fishing in troubled waters. The Zionist state has long been interested in sowing discord and fanning its flames in striving to redraw the map of the Middle East in its image, so that the logic of sectarian and ethnic fragmentation prevails over the logic of citizenship and shared loyalty to a state that merges sectarian and ethnic groups into a single melting pot while preserving their rights. Inspired by the Roman Empire's famous principle of “divide and conquer”, Israel has sought, since its inception, to exploit the differences it found in its immediate and distant surroundings, playing sectarian minorities against the regional Sunni majority and ethnic minorities against the Arab majority: Druze, Christians, Kurds, and others – even Shiites during the time of the Shah of Iran, before that country became a hotbed of anti-Israel hostility and contributed in turn to fuelling Shiite sectarianism in neighbouring Arab countries in an effort to expand its regional influence.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Syria, Israel
Gilbert Achcar

New Disorder, Geopolitical Transition and Militarization of Europe

1 week 1 day ago

The new era that the reactionary bloc grouped around Trump aspires to impose on a global scale has just begun, but we are already seeing the contradictions and resistances of different scope that are manifesting themselves in the face of that project. I will try to point out in this article some of the features that characterize this historical moment to then enter into its implications in Europe.

- Rearming Europe / Spanish state, War drive/Anti-war movements
Jaime Pastor

Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor

1 week 2 days ago

The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.

- News from around the world / Pakistan, India, Kashmir
Radical Socialist

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

1 week 2 days ago

The debate on the Left over the war in Ukraine has exposed serious disagreements on international questions, ones that have been brewing and deepening for over a decade. From 2001 to 2011, there was general unity on the socialist Left about the question of imperialism and the response to it. This was a period of explicit and obvious attacks on sovereign countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and other imperialist forces. This naked imperialist aggression triggered global mass movements against the so-called “War on Terror.”

- Features / Marxism, Campism
Simon Hannah

Dreaming as internationalist materialists

1 week 2 days ago

“We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples).

And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us today is not changing our dreams and desires. Certainly not going poaching on the side of those opposed to us, claiming that “only the far right dreams”.”

- Features / Marxism
Alexis Cukier , Franck Gaudichaud, Théo Roumier, Vincent Gay, Yoletty Bracho

Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?

1 week 2 days ago

Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.

- News from around the world / United States (USA), Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh

Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists

1 week 3 days ago

The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist', withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations negotiations, and should now be sanctioned. But annual UN COPs (Conferences of the Parties) won't, because the ‘climate action' approach is dominated by the West and BRICS. They continue to deny the world long-overdue ‘climate justice' and they won't punish Trump's climate crimes.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa
Patrick Bond
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