U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have conducted a tremendously powerful air war against Iran which, as Iran responded and Israel also made war on Lebanon, quickly became a regional war bringing death and destruction to many Middle Eastern nations, killing thousands. Trump is now demanding Iran's “unconditional surrender” and the right to a role in choosing the country's future leaders. Elected as a candidate who opposed foreign wars and regime change, Trump has repeatedly betrayed his promises.

With the far right on the rise, it is vital to defend and extend women's rights. What does the spread of nostalgia politics mean for women?

“What kind of leader is Nooshi, who does not dare to take a ‘clear and unambiguous' stance like the Spanish Social Democrats, whom she herself often praises?.”

This call was published by Sotsialnyi Rukh on their Facebook page.

LAST YEAR I celebrated International Women's Day in Lviv in Western Ukraine. It was the first women's march since the end of COVID and the beginning of the Russian reinvasion in 2022.

“Without organising women workers in hosieries, in jute mills, among hawkers, fighting for their rights, 8th March loses its significance. Today, when neoliberalism and Hindutva-fascism is sharpening assaults, women's rights must also be placed within the context of fighting that.”

“At a time when we would like to see “surging” mobilizations in the face of an exponential rise of the far right, we take a closer look at what the feminist mobilizations of the autumn of 1995 can teach us about the possibilities of unity today.”

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.

The recent war between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been overshadowed by the attack on Iran by U.S. and Israeli imperialism. Yet the Afghan-Pakistan war, which began 21-22 February 2026 has resulted in heavy causalities on both sides. It was launched by the Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on Eastern Afghanistan (Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces).

The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.

Imprisoned for 59 days on unfounded charges, Algerian socialist activist Lyes Touati has been released after a broad mobilization, turning his case into a symbol of attacks on democratic freedoms.

Victims of propaganda, many young Africans in search of a better life go to Russia. Yet they find only the violence of war — and too often, death. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Russian authorities set up recruitment campaigns in Africa, first through Wagner mercenaries, before these networks diversified.

President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America's “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Trump has launched just such a war on Iran and the question is: Will his base and the American people support or even tolerate it?

As cross-border strikes intensify and Pakistan's defence minister declares “open war” against the Afghan Taliban government, the long arc of Islamabad's Afghanistan policy appears under severe strain. Is this merely another episode in a volatile frontier relationship — or the blowback of decades of militarised strategy and proxy politics?

Since 12 February 2026, after a clash in Lyon between a group of antifa and a group of fascists that resulted in the death of one of the latter, France has taken a sordid turn in a campaign of demonization and criminalization of La France Insoumise (LFI), the left wing party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, which is directly accused of being politically responsible for the death of this person.

“This is not chance, these are programmed crimes.”

As colonization and repression intensify in Palestine, Israeli prison policy is reaching an unprecedented level. Mass arrests, torture, arbitrary detentions and the international extension of repressive measures are part of a globalized colonial system.

Four years into Russia's invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.

What Happened and What Lessons Leftists Should Learn from the Defeat of Oppositions in the Parliament?

“Jesse Jackson was a hero to millions. Even those of us on the socialist left praised his integrity and outspoken views on issues like Black Lives Matter and police violence.”