On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan.

The Red-Green Alliance's negotiation team managed to secure some impressive commitments in the newly formed government's policy programme. In order to realise these commitments, we must now mobilise the opposition and the left-wing movements.

Mladic, the butcher of Bosnia, died on August 27. We repost an article on Srebrenica, the worst massacre in a single day in Europe since the Second World War

“Often at the center of these debates is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is seen as a possible candidate in the Democratic Party's presidential primary election in 2028. While she has not yet said if she will run, that possibility polarized DSA members.”

“Ortega has abolished elections. Do not deny Nicaragua the right to choose freely—the same right that could make you president of Brazil for a fourth time.”

The far right's advance and the question of how to stop it gives this issue its spine: Martín Mosquera on "how to defeat Milei" in a reactionary period, Eduardo Lucita on the spectre of the far right haunting Latin America, Jorge Escalante on a Peruvian crisis that "will worsen with the Fujimorist victory," and the Against the Current editors on the looming US election.

On 26th August part of a glacier and the stone layers beneath it on the northern slope of Langtang Lirung in the Nepal-Tibet border [Tibet is today an “autonomous region” of China] collapsed. The ice and rock avalanche falling down from this nearly 7200 metre mountain was so powerful that its impact created a seismic signal equivalent to a 5.2 Richter scale earthquake. The debris flow then traversed nearly 100 kilometres via Lende Khola river to the Bhote Koshi- Trishuli river system. Villages have been destroyed, the principal road connecting Nepal with China has been isolated, and at least 6 hydel power centres have been damaged according to the news received till now over 500 deaths have been reported from Nepal and Tibet and nearly 2000 people are still untraced.

Keiko Fujimori's electoral victory as head of the Peruvian government is part of the advance of neo-fascism in the world and of the offensive, spearheaded by Trump in Latin America, to capture governments and turn these countries into the USA's backyard in order to strengthen the weakened hegemony of the US. The arrival of Keiko Fujimori is not just a simple change of government; it is the direct return of an authoritarian project initiated in the 1990s by the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori.

“As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state's prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter to “Iran's political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors'”, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.”

Ukrainians are facing a fifth winter in wartime conditions. Solidarity is needed as much as ever

Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University was found dead on 14 August 2024 at his home after a vicious campaign against him by the mainstream media.

MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November.

Fifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.

Since the end of May, day after day, Albanians have been protesting in Tirana against a luxury tourist complex that US president Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, plan to build with an Albanian investor. At first, there were only a few hundred demonstrators, but it has now become a mass movement.

On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military operation against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and detention of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their transfer to the United States. During this attack, carried out using 150 aircraft, around a hundred people lost their lives, including 32 Cubans who had attempted to protect the country's presidential palace; the remaining victims were Venezuelans. A few hours after this intervention, Donald Trump announced that Washington now claimed to be temporarily in control of Venezuela and would exploit its oil resources.

Globally, the left faces a strategic debate on how to respond to the current reactionary surge. The answer depends on how we characterise the period, what we understand by the extreme right, and what kind of political unity we deem necessary to confront it. In Argentina, the discussion is gaining prominence given the gradual decline of Milei's government. Before examining the Argentine case, however, it is worthwhile considering the global scale of the phenomenon.

FOR TWO MONTHS last winter, 4000 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unleashed an assault on the Twin Cities with a violent roundup of immigrants, prompting a mass, nonviolent grassroots resistance movement that eventually involved hundreds of thousands of protesters. The Trump administration was forced to retreat.

The rave reception for Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple's avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is on the New York Times bestseller list.

If the outpouring of hatred against foreign nationals in South Africa is part of a catastrophic social context, it is also encouraged by crooked politicians. On 30 June 2026, 300 demonstrations were organized across South Africa to demand the departure of migrants.