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Trump's Trade War and Canadian Workers

22 hours 55 minutes ago

The 25% tariffs imposed on exports from Canada and Mexico by the US administration of Donald Trump effective March 4 (with an exception of 10% tariffs for Canadian oil and gas and potash) constitutes an aggressive attack on the livelihoods of Canadian working people and a threat to the survival of key industries in Canada. Trump postponed some of the auto and other tariffs in sectors covered by the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade treaty between the three countries (about 40% of Canadian exports to the US), with auto tariffs planned for April 2nd but has threatened to continue with others. Further tariffs on aluminum and steel (over the 25% level) were threatened to be as high as 50%, with Trump also threatening to “shut down” the Canadian auto industry.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Canada, Economy
Socialist Project

The attacks on us all

1 day 22 hours ago

A multi-front attack is in full swing — not only on supporters of Palestinian freedom, but on everyone's First Amendment and civil rights. The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the peremptory deportation of Brown Medicine Dr. Rasha Alawieh, the attempt to detain and deport Columbia University Ph.D student Ranjani Srinivasan who's fled to seek asylum in Canada, and the seizure of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri — none of these, and many more cases that haven't attracted public attention, are happening in isolation.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA)
Solidarity Steering Committee

Duterte in The Hague

3 days 1 hour ago

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte gained international notoriety with his violent ‘war on drugs' – a campaign of violence targeting the country's poor that claimed thousands of lives. He is now in a cell in The Hague, awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court, but it remains to be seen what will happen in the Philippines.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Philippines
Alex de Jong

Liberation day

4 days ago

It's not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day' and what America's voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.”

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), Economy
Michael Roberts

Feminist group Bilkis addresses Brussels Conference

4 days 11 hours ago

Ivanna Vynna, a member of the Ukrainian feminist group Bilkis, took part on 27 March 2025 in the workshop on feminist struggles in Ukraine at the Brussels conference organised by the European Solidarity Network with Ukraine. The text of her speech is published below.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Women, Ukraine
Ivanna Vynna

Le Pen convicted, the fight against the far right continues!

5 days 12 hours ago

In the so-called case of “the parliamentary assistants to the European Parliament”, Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday 31 March to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, a fine of €200,000 and was banned from running for office for five years. Thus, taking into account the usual judicial delays before the holding of an appeal and the effect of political destabilization, her candidacy for the presidential election in 2027 is very much in doubt, especially if the election is called early.

- News from around the world / France, Far Right
NPA - Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste

Former President Duterte arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC)

6 days 1 hour ago

Accused of crimes against humanity, Rodrigo Duterte was taken to The Hague (Netherlands) on March 11, where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is located. The charges are the tens of thousands of extrajudicial killings committed under his rule in the name of his "war on drugs."

- IVP603 - April 2025
Pierre Rousset

For an intransigent opposition to the rearmament of capitalist Europe

1 week ago

The drums of war are already generating a deafening din. Governments, companies and the media are united in repeating in unison warmongering slogans reminiscent of the turbulent beginnings of the 20th century. Defend Europe, defend its values, boost the military industry and even bring back compulsory military service. Europe is in danger, it stands alone in a hostile world and must rearm. Dark and toxic winds are blowing, which will sweep away any prospect of emancipation.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Europe, Spanish state, War drive/Anti-war movements
Anticapitalistas

Thousands protest canalisation of the Indus and coporate farming

1 week 2 days ago

Thousands of farmers gathered in Bhit Shah, Sindh, to protest against corporate farming initiatives and the proposed canal projects on river Indus. The conference, organized by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee with the support of three other members of PKRC from Sindh, saw participation from farmers' leaders across Sindh, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the Saraiki region.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, Peasants
Farooq Tariq

Ukraine: The left's dilemma amid a crumbling world order: Prepare to fight or let others determine the outcome?

1 week 2 days ago

With a madman in the White House, all pretences have fallen away and raw power again reigns supreme. Trade wars, huge aid cuts, explicit demands to annex Greenland and depopulate Gaza — every new day brings forth another crisis that throws into question internationally recognised collective and individual rights and undermines global institutions that supposedly exist to defend them. Is this genuinely the world we were hoping for when we criticised the hypocrisy of the West? Is the internationalist left simply going to accept this new state of affairs?

- Features / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine
Oleksandr Kyselov

Syria's Economic Transition: From Kleptocracy to Islamic Neoliberalism in a War-Torn Economy

1 week 2 days ago

In its first decade in power and before the conflict, Bashar al-Assad's regime adopted neoliberal-oriented economic policies, such as price liberalisation for many essential goods, market deregulation, and a significant extension of the private sector. This was accompanied by austerity measures without genuine institutional reform, which resulted in greater social injustice, decreased productivity, and widening income disparity.

- Features / Syria, Economy
Joseph Daher, Zaki Mehchy

Between an upsurge in mobilisation and a retreat in feminist strikes, how can we organise to win?

1 week 3 days ago

This year's feminist demonstration in Brussels, Belgium on 8 March 2025 was once again a great success. Although the press only reported the police estimate (10,000 people), the reality must have been closer to the turnout for the trade union demonstration on 13 January (30,000 people), as the loop around the central station was quickly saturated. The Belgian feminist movement is thus demonstrating that it is still a mobilising force following its revival over the last seven years.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Belgium, Women
Féministes anticapitalistes

Turkey and the Neofascist Contagion

1 week 3 days ago

The ongoing battle in Turkey has become increasingly significant for the entire world. If the Turkish popular movement wins, its victory will have a significant impact in galvanizing resistance to the rise of neofascism worldwide.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / United States (USA), Turkey, Far Right
Gilbert Achcar

Democratic Republic of Congo: a conflict with multiple implications

1 week 5 days ago

The capture of Goma and Bukavu, the regional capitals of North and South Kivu respectively in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the 23 March Movement (M23), strongly supported by the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF), is certainly a turning point for the DRC.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda
Paul Martial

Turkey: a mass movement builds against Erdogan's power grab

1 week 6 days ago

Uraz Aydin answers questions from Antoine Larrache about the mobilization currently building in Turkey after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, who is seen as Erdogan's main rival in the race for the next presidential election.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Turkey
Antoine Larrache, Uraz Aydin

Turkish people will not accept the death sentence for their democracy

1 week 6 days ago

Dear friends and allies, stand with us! Share this call with your local MPs, mayors, unions, parties, and friends.

Raise your voices for Turkey

- News from around the world / Turkey

On the 2025 German elections

2 weeks 1 day ago

Promise Li, a socialist from Hong Kong now based in Los Angeles, interviews Jakob Schäfer for Borderless. Jacob is a retired steelworker, having served on the steering committee of the Network for Fighting Trade Unions (VKG). He is also a member of the International Sozialistische Organization (ISO) and the editor of the magazine Die Internationale. Promise is is a member of Tempest Collective and Solidarity, and has been active in higher education rank-and-file union work, international solidarity and antiwar campaigns, and Chinatown tenant organizing.. The interview was conducted on 25 February 2025 and appeared in Borderless on February 2025.

- Features / Germany
Jakob Schaefer, Promise Li

Chronology of the struggle in Serbia

2 weeks 1 day ago

The scale and intensity of this movement is unprecedented in Serbia's recent history – and in the entire history of student movements in Europe. The students have gained widespread support in academia and beyond. Around 5,000 university professors signed an online letter of solidarity, and by the end of December 2024, 85 universities – 74 per cent of the country's universities – had joined the protests. Farmers blocked Serbia's main highway in December, and artists, high school students, teachers , education unions, lawyers , and media associations have also expressed their support, with 73 schools suspending classes in solidarity with the students .

- IVP602 - March 2025 / Serbia
Ivaylo Dinev
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