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Indonesia's Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity

17 hours 38 minutes ago

Review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025).

- Reviews section / Indonesia, Reviews
Alex de Jong

Inside Die Linke

18 hours 30 minutes ago

After geopolitical upheaval and a snap election in February brought a new coalition to power, the political situation in Germany is rapidly changing. Even as the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, Germany's left-wing party, Die Linke surged in the most recent election to over double its prior size. What are the implications?

- Features / Germany, New parties of the left
Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer , Sean Larson

Italy votes on removing anti‑working class laws

1 day ago

Italy votes this weekend in 5 referendums. Four are all about the existing restrictive, anti-working class labour laws and one is about the length of time involved in claiming citizenship. Meloni's post-fascist led government defends the repressive labour legislation and the current citizenship law which means you have to have lived in Italy for 10 years before becoming Italian. A Yes in the referendum would halve that period.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizing
Dave Kellaway, Sinistra Anticapitalista

Pity the people of Gaza!

1 day 19 hours ago

What we have witnessed in recent days in the negotiations between Hamas and the Zionist state under American and Arab auspices, following the Islamic movement's rejection of the seventy-day truce accompanied by mutual prisoner releases and the entry of humanitarian aid, proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff and accepted by Benjamin Netanyahu, is in fact a repetition of what we have been witnessing since the beginning of last year.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Palestine
Gilbert Achcar

Fabian, 11-years-old, dead: this was no accident - this is the police

3 days ago

On Monday afternoon, 2 June, in Elisabeth Park in Ganshoren, an 11-year-old child was struck and killed by a police vehicle. Another one. Once again, a young person has lost their life in a police operation. Once again, run over by a police officer. And once again, the institutions react coldly, relaying a version of events that incriminates the victim, while those responsible hide behind complicit investigations that generally lead nowhere.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Belgium
Elena Fernandez Fernandez

Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

5 days 4 hours ago

A small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Panama
José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-Molina

‘No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin'

5 days 22 hours ago

“Movchan delves into the current state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the role of the far right in both countries, and the challenges Ukraine's left forces face in building solidarity with their struggles internationally.”

- Features / Spanish state, Russia, Ukraine
Andriy Movchan, Victor Osprey

Trump's Repression: “Worse than McCarthyism”

6 days 4 hours ago

America had two previous political purges of the left, the Red Scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s, and now we're in the midst of the Trump purge—and it's worse than the earlier ones.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Dissolution of the PKK and new perspectives

1 week ago

On February 2025, from the Turkish island of Imrali where he has been held in solitary confinement since 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, “Apo” (uncle) as he is affectionately known to the Kurds, called for the dissolution of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (PKK – Kurdistan Workers' Party) and an end to the armed struggle in Turkey. The stunned reaction of some international opinion showed the extent to which the PKK's political evolution had been ignored.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Kurdistan
Mireille Court

A dictatorship without complexes in Mali

1 week 1 day 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.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Mali
Paul Martial

Labour panders to racism – playing the far right's game

1 week 2 days 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”.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Britain, Far Right, Racism and Islamophobia
Simon Hannah

Hard questions for Left Bloc after a terrible parliamentary election

1 week 3 days ago

National Board Resolution of the Left Bloc from 24 May 2025 regarding the results of the legislative elections of 18 May 2024.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Portugal
Left Bloc

Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine

1 week 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.”

- Features / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing
Oleksandr Skiba

South African Union Responds to White House Debacle

1 week 4 days 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.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing, South Africa
Collective

Trump and Ukraine

1 week 5 days 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.

- Features / United States (USA), Ukraine
The Radical
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