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The Mirage of a Palestinian State

2 weeks 3 days ago

More countries recognizing a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact in recognizing the Palestinian people's right to a state, a right denied by most components of the Zionist establishment, especially the far-right Zionist spectrum that currently governs Israel. However, the meanings and implications of this recognition greatly vary with time.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Palestine
Gilbert Achcar

The Islamic Republic at the end of its tether

2 weeks 5 days ago

The US-Israeli military intervention against the Islamic Republic of Iran ended on 24 June 2025 after twelve days of intense bombing. This aggression, which has caused heavy civilian casualties, has considerably worsened the social situation in Iran.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Iran
Babak Kia, Collective

Colonial violence in Namibia

2 weeks 6 days ago

“Germany's recognition of the Herero and Nama genocide has been a lengthy process and remains marred by controversy over the issue of reparations. ”

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Namibia
Paul Martial

You give us corruption, we give you revolution!

3 weeks ago

Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.

- News from around the world / Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh

Ukraine's New Cabinet: Neoliberal Reforms Threaten Wartime Solidarity

3 weeks ago

Ukraine's first government reshuffle since Russia's full-scale invasion has brought Yulia Svyrydenko to power as Prime Minister, but this change offers little hope for ordinary Ukrainians facing wartime hardships. Rather than addressing critical shortages in defence resources and rising poverty, the new cabinet appears committed to accelerating neoliberal reforms that prioritise private capital over public welfare.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Ukraine
Vitaliy Dudin

Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference

3 weeks 1 day ago

“we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism – placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority.”

- News from around the world / Brazil, Antifascism
Collective

Racist riots in Murcia

3 weeks 2 days ago

Torre Pacheco, a Spanish town of 40,000 inhabitants located in the province of Murcia, has become the scene of large-scale racist violence since 12 July. Organized far-right groups are going there from all over the country to carry out veritable manhunts for North African men, and more particularly Moroccans. It is reminiscent of the images that came to us from the United Kingdom a few months ago.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Spanish state, Migration, Racism and Islamophobia
Irene García Galán

“War supports reactionary, capitalist and fascist forces and destroys lives, hopes and nature”

3 weeks 3 days ago

The Roja Collective is an independent feminist, anti-capitalist and internationalist collective created in France following the Jina uprising in Iran in 2022, made up of women, queer people and members of the exiled diaspora. Elias Vola asked them for their opinion on the situation in the Middle East and in particular in Iran.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Women, Israel, Iran
Elias Vola

Thirty years since the death of Ernest Mandel

3 weeks 4 days ago

Sunday, 20 July 1995, marks three decades since the death of Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) "the most creative economist of our time," in the words of the Pakistani socialist Tariq Ali. Thus ended a whole life informed by the passion of revolutionary militancy and an intense activity in the construction of Marxist organizations and of the international itself.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Obituary, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel
Eduardo Lucita

A Major Change - The Anti-Imperialist Struggle Gains Strength Against Attacks from Trump and His Far-Right Allies on Brazil

3 weeks 4 days ago

In recent hours, Bolsonaro's legal situation has worsened, with a warrant authorizing searches of his properties, the imposition of an electronic ankle monitor, a ban on social media access, and other precautionary measures in response to his alleged conspiracy with Trump. (Revista Movimento)

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Brazil
Israel Dutra

Two Dead Americans—Two Americas

3 weeks 6 days ago

Last week, the nation's attention focused on two dead Americans, two men who couldn't be more different, two men who seem to embody the nation's divided politics, culture, and morality. One was John Lewis, the African American civil rights leader and legislator who died five years ago. The other was Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy socialite and convicted pedophile who provided elite businessmen and politicians access to underage girls.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Starmer's first year – things can only get worse

4 weeks ago

Sitting in number 10 Downing Street after the government's debacle and U turn over the welfare, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney must have thought: these people are so ungrateful.
“Here they are taking a wrecking ball to Reeves and Kendall's project to save £5 billion with welfare cuts. But I made these MPs. I ensured nearly every left wing candidate had been eliminated early from any selection process. My team assiduously sifted through thousands of social (…)

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Britain
Dave Kellaway

Let Vlad stay

4 weeks 1 day ago

A Riga-based social-centre project called “Maiznica” is facing repression from state security services and the expulsion of one of their members from the country. In this press release from the Collective they aim to spread the news to a wider audience.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Latvia, Russia, European Union
Maiznica

Syria and the Dangers of Playing with Fire

4 weeks 2 days ago

Whatever is the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Suwayda Governorate—whether they were merely the result of the chaos prevailing in post-Assad Syria, or a manoeuvre by Israel in order to escalate its hypocritical intervention in the region, or a manoeuvre by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to extend its control over southern Syria—what is unmistakable is that the first factor, the prevailing chaos, provided the conditions for the explosion.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Syria
Gilbert Achcar
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