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Latinos May Decide the Midterms, Defeating Trump and the Republicans
Donald Trump arguably won the 2024 presidential election because between 42 and 48 percent of the country's Latinos voted for him. His was the largest Republican share ever of the Latino vote. In the last two years, however, Latinos have turned against Trump, as seen both in their participation in social protests and in pre-election polls. Latinos could cost Trump and the Republicans the election.
- IVP621 - October 2026 / United States (USA)Morocco's Elections in a Time of Despotism: Why Ballot Boxes Don't Produce Liberation
“Today, I believe that Morocco is experiencing a form of political insanity in the Einsteinian sense. The elections on September 23 showcased the same familiar faces that have worn thin on the Moroccan public, accompanied by the same broken promises and poorly executed theatrics. Furthermore, it is the Ministry of the Interior that oversees the entire electoral process—from drawing constituency maps to organising the vote itself. ”
- IVP621 - October 2026 / Morocco, Youth and student movementsSinistra Anticapitalista Summer University: Solidarity, Partners, Ecosocialists
“AI, Anti-Capitalist Intelligence”, the third edition of Italy's Ecosocialist Summer University – organized by Sinistra Anticapitalista and the Livio Maitan Library – ended on Sunday 6 September 2026 with a well-attended debate on the alternative to capitalist barbarism, moderated by Armando Morgia, in which Antonella Bundu (Toscana Rossa), Dario Salvetti (formerly of GKN), Eliana Como (CGIL oppositionist), Luca Scacchi (AMR Controvento), Giulio Calella (Edizioni Alegre) and Francesco Locantore (Gauche anticapitaliste) participated, among others.
- News from around the world / Italy, Marxism, Fourth InternationalNATO, the climate crisis and the ecosocialist emergency
Gippo Mukendi Ngandu, a member of the leadership of the Fourth International, spoke at the anti-imperialist conference NoToNATO to present the links between war and the climate crisis, and to propose the answers put forward in our Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution.
- IVP621 - October 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Turkey, NATO, ClimateAnti-NATO Conference in Istanbul: A Success Story that Contributes to the Anti-Imperialist Struggle
An international anti-imperialist peace conference took place on 4 July 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye, while the entire country was under relentless repression by the regime in the run-up to the NATO summit. It allowed several thousand activists to meet.
- IVP621 - October 2026 / Turkey, Anti-imperialismThe Right Loses the Election – Social Democracy Records a Historic Low
The policies pursued since 2022 have been among the most reactionary, racist, and repressive in modern Swedish history. Examples include restrictions on the right to asylum, attempts to retroactively revoke residence permits, significantly stricter requirements for obtaining Swedish citizenship, stop-and-search zones in working-class suburbs, repressive legislation that allows 14-year-olds to be imprisoned, deportations of young people separated from their families, legislative changes that threaten democracy, and welfare reforms that severely worsen conditions for the poorest and for those without citizenship.
- IVP621 - October 2026 / SwedenNuñez, Geffray, resign! They are the ones wreaking havoc.
Secondary school pupils are taking action; the government is cracking down. The situation in the national education system has been deteriorating for years. Successive governments and various ministers, led by Blanquer [Minister of Education 2017-2022], have accelerated the destruction. The lack of resources is becoming increasingly unbearable.
- IVP621 - October 2026 / France, Youth and student movementsElections Crucial to Curbing Far Right
The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the anti-capitalist left have two gigantic challenges to face simultaneously in the coming Brazilian elections: to contribute to the broader struggle against the main Brazilian expression of global neo-fascism, and to build a radical and independent left pole.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / BrazilThe spark that lit a prairie fire: let's organise a hot autumn
On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain, there are thousands of evictions every year. The housing movement fights against them every day, often in the face of a media blackout that looks the other way when it comes to a tragedy that is part of everyday life in working-class neighbourhoods.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / Spanish state, Public servicesProtestors Rally against Mass Murderers Speaking at U.N. General Assembly
Hundreds marched in three separate demonstrations to protest the mass murderers—President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—speaking at the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last week. The event became a kind of macabre circus with these monsters in the big ring as some delegates walked out while others protested outside.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / Palestine, United States (USA), Israel, IranA Reign of Anti-Immigrant Terror
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, from Venezuela, entered the United States legally and is seeking asylum. He is now in ICE detention with his serious gunshot wounds inadequately treated.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), MigrationAnti-migration measures: the EU Pact worsens an already hostile reality for exiles
Last June, a new European Pact on Migration and Asylum came into force. It has been heavily criticised by asylum advocacy groups, which denounce it as a serious attack on both people and the right to move freely.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / Migration, European UnionBattle over AI Creates New Political Allies and Enemies
AI or artificial intelligence systems may have the power to destroy human life say several AI experts and industry leaders. Their statements have led to a political fight between those who want to accelerate the development of AI and those who want to slow development and regulate the industry. The debate over AI's power and danger resembles the fight over nuclear energy in the 1950s.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA), EconomyGlobal warming and the headlong rush of fossil-fuel capitalism: the number one threat to global public health!
Global warming is a health time bomb, of which deaths from heatwaves are merely the tip of the iceberg. And as is always the case under this system, which combines social and ecological inequalities, the bill is never presented to those who placed the order!
- IVP620 - September 2026 / ClimateWe must turn up the volume and confront Bolsonaro's supporters in the streets and at the polls
A crucial battle awaits us over the next three weeks. We are working across the country—from north to south—seeking votes and engaging in dialogue with social and political activists to ensure Lula's re-election, to surpass the PSOL's electoral threshold, and secure the election of our parliamentary candidates.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / BrazilIsrael continues ethnic cleansing
While the Israeli elections have provoked a new racist and genocidal escalation, ethnic cleansing has continued in Gaza, Lebanon and especially in the West Bank. Evictions, settlements and the E1 project accelerated an annexation organized with the complicity of the Western powers.
As expected, the elections are being used as a pretext for a wave of racist and genocidal remarks. Almost the whole of Israeli society agrees on the essentials: acceptance of the genocide and rejection of any (…)
Slovenian trade unions propose referendum to overturn the new government's anti-social policies
The parliamentary elections held in early 2026 in Slovenia resulted in a narrow majority for the right, thereby enabling the formation of a radical conservative government. This government wasted no time in taking steps to undermine the welfare state.
- News from around the world / Slovenia, Trade unions/workplace organizingTrump Bribes Voters, We Remember 9/11, and Soon the Midterm Election
President Donald Trump convened the first-ever midterm Republican Convention in Dallas, Texas principally to celebrate himself and motivate his base for the coming November 3 national elections where control of both houses of Congress is in play. He told his followers to pretend that he's on the ballot and to vote for Republicans.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / United States (USA)Civil and military resistance against Putin in Ukraine
Ukrainian society is resisting at both the military and civilian levels. To provide concrete support, an international solidarity convoy will go on the road to Ukraine at the end of November. Ukrainian gains on the front line, even if limited, mark the inability of the Russian army to make decisive territorial advances.
- IVP620 - September 2026 / Russia, Ukraine