A dictatorship without complexes in Mali
1 day 6 hours ago
The ban on political parties in Mali is a further step in the consolidation of a dictatorship incapable of curbing jihadist attacks. From now on, all political parties in Mali will be dissolved. This was a recommendation of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the legislative body set up by the junta that seized power in 2021.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Mali
Paul Martial
Labour panders to racism – playing the far right's game
2 days 5 hours ago
When Keir Starmer was standing for Labour leader in 2020 after Jeremy Corbyn resigned, his slogan was “Another World is Possible”. This was a call back to the ideals and hope of the anti capitalist movement in the late 1990s and early 2000s before 9/11 made our world more reactionary, more dangerous, more cynical. As part of his bid for leadership to win over a membership that had only recently elected Corbyn twice over, Starmer gave a speech in which he outlined his view on immigration; “We welcome migrants, we don't scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of migrants… we have to make the case for the benefits of migration”.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Britain,
Far Right,
Racism and Islamophobia
Simon Hannah
Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election
3 days 2 hours ago
National Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Portugal
Left Bloc
Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine
4 days ago
“The Ukrainian trade union movement is at a historic crossroads. To continue to operate with outdated models and methods is to embark on the road to insignificance and decline. Faced with the profound transformation of society and post-war reconstruction, the trade unions must choose: extinction or modernisation.”
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Features
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Ukraine,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Oleksandr Skiba
South African Union Responds to White House Debacle
4 days 4 hours ago
The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), a leftwing voice in the South African labor movement, posted the statement below following the May 21 White House meeting of Donald Trump and president Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump's sickening racism was on full display as he pressed the mythology of the “white genoicide” of Afrikaner farmers. On this occasion Trump even exceeded his everyday spectacle, presumably prompted by Elon Musk who's seeking to extort favorable concessions for his Starlink operation in South Africa.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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United States (USA),
Trade unions/workplace organizing,
South Africa
Collective
“Putin's Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses ‘Antifascism' to Justify the War in Ukraine”
5 days 1 hour ago
Duncan Chapel
Trump and Ukraine
5 days 1 hour ago
The televised clash between Zelensky and Trump on February 28, 2025 will in the eyes of some sections of the global public (even in India) raise serious doubts about the widespread claim that the Ukrainian government has been a ‘proxy' of the US against Russia and that the threat of NATO expansion was the primary reason for Russia's invasion.
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Features
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United States (USA),
Ukraine
The Radical
“Ukraine's Fate Raises the Issue of the Rights and Sovereignty of Small States”
5 days 2 hours ago
Ilya Budraitskis, historian and author, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the most important voices of Russian left-wing intellectual thought, speaks to "Epochi" about the imperialist logic that governs the talks between the USA and Russia regarding the end of the war in Ukraine, the objectives of both sides, and the stance of the Russian Left towards a potential peace agreement.
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Features
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Russia,
Ukraine
Ilya Budraitskis
Madagascar - victim of a past and present colonial policy
5 days 2 hours ago
Affirming France's presence in the Indian Ocean was the aim of French president Emmanuel Macron's trip to Madagascar on 23-24 April, 2025.The Grande Île is unique in that it is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is governed by billionaires who do not hesitate to provoke serious crises in order to gain power. The French president was received by Madagascar's president. Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey who has made a career in events management.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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France,
Madagascar
Paul Martial
Trump: Shamelessly Making U.S.A. More Unequal and Government More Corrupt
6 days 2 hours ago
The House of Representatives, dominated by the Republican Party, last week passed President Donald Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” as he calls it, by a vote of 215 to 214, giving tax cuts to the rich and more money to the military while reducing a variety of social programs for working-class and poor people.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
Lessons from the last federal elections: Towards the renewal of the status quo ante or the desperate search for an agreement with Trumpism
1 week ago
While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump's threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting intentions.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Canada,
Quebec
André Frappier, Bernard Rioux
The Nakba intensifies. May our solidarity grow too!
1 week 1 day ago
The casualty figures for Gaza have disappeared from the news, while the death toll continues to mount. Some people are used to it, or have been indifferent from the start. Others know that this information alone can no longer transform public opinion, let alone the actions of complicit leaders.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Palestine
Olivier Lek Laferrière
Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite
1 week 1 day ago
Germany's latest variant of the GroKo (Grosse Koalition, Grand Coalition), with Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU) as Chancellor and Lars Klingbeil (SPD) as Vice-Chair, aims, according to the coalition agreement, to represent “responsibility for Germany”. Translated from political newspeak, this means that the amount of profits is untouchable.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Germany
Heinrich Neuhaus
Trump's Mass Deportation Wave
1 week 1 day ago
Key to Trump's Make America Great Again pledge was the promise to deport millions of immigrants. During both his presidential campaigns he identified immigrants as “terrorists, murderers, rapists” or “individuals let loose from mental institutions.” Once elected again, he promised to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and deport several million people.
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Features
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United States (USA),
Migration
Dianne Feeley
What happened to the left in Ecuador?
1 week 2 days ago
“The anti-capitalist left has not renewed its strategies after the October and June uprisings either. Its atomization and lack of material and intellectual resources prevent it from building a power project with its own identity. This vacuum paved the way for the Noboa clan to capitalize on the discontent.”
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IVP604 - May 2025
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Ecuador
Andrés Madrid
No to the Russian-US plan to annex Ukraine!
1 week 4 days ago
Elias Vola, Gin Vola
For a free and demilitarized Arctic – Defend Greenland's independence – Defend the Greenlandic people and nature
1 week 4 days ago
With Donald Trump's repeated demands that the US take over Greenland and his vice president J. D. Vance's comments on the number of US military personnel in Greenland, the imperialist competition for Greenland has taken a decisive new step.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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United States (USA),
Denmark,
Greenland
SAP (Denmark)
Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy
1 week 6 days ago
President Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian horses, and watching sword dances, Trump and the monarchs heaped praise on each other.
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IVP604 - May 2025
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United States (USA),
Saudi Arabia,
Qatar,
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Dan La Botz
“The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right”
1 week 6 days ago
Exiled Russian political scientist and activist Ilya Budraitskis explains the causes of the rise of the extreme right, the goals of the new fascists, and what lessons the radical left should draw from the 20th century for the fight against fascism. He makes a few suggestions for where anti-fascist politics could begin today in this interview by Philipp Schmid (BFS Zürich) first published in Sozialismus.ch.
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Features
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Germany,
Russia,
Far Right
Ilya Budraitskis, Philipp Schmid
Three Requisites for Syria's Reconstruction Process
1 week 6 days ago
For the country's revival to be successful after years of war, inclusion of the population and democratization during the transitional period will be necessary, or national cohesion may be undermined.
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Features
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Syria
Joseph Daher
Checked
10 hours 44 minutes ago
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