More pay, but less union democracy - A complicated strike victory at Air Canada
13 hours 22 minutes ago
After an inspiring four days on strike, Air Canada flight attendants are now voting on a tentative agreement (TA) that offers significant gains in pay. To get the TA, however, union officials also agreed to sacrifice the workers' right to reject the whole deal and fight for more. Canadian socialist David Camfield explains the unusual circumstances of this struggle—and the unusual deal that ended it.
Flight attendants at Air Canada (AC) and Air Canada Rouge, around 10,500 workers, went on (…)
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IVP608 - September 2025
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Canada,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
David Camfield
Trump Fires Top Officials, Seizes Control of American Cities
1 day 17 hours ago
Many of us were on vacation last month, but President Donald Trump was hard at work, dismantling American democracy and creating a reactionary authoritarian state. Trump, in an attempt to take personal and absolute control of the federal government in unprecedented moves of dubious legality, terminated three top level government officials.
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IVP608 - September 2025
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United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
Message of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) to Freedom Flotilla
2 days 8 hours ago
We write from Ukraine with respect for your courage and in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Having lived through invasion, occupation, forced displacement, and separation from our loved ones, many of us know too well what these mean.
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News from around the world
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Palestine,
Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh
Brazilian activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla
2 days 15 hours ago
The Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail on 31 August heading for Gaza via Tunis in yet another attempt to break the blockade. Internationally-known figures such as Greta Thunberg, actor Susan Sarandon and Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, will be aboard. [1] As will Fourth Internationalist activists from Brazil and Ireland.
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News from around the world
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Palestine,
Brazil
Movimento Esquerda Socialista
Prabowo: Stop State Violence, Revoke Parliamentarians' Facilities and Allowances, End Repression Against Mass Action, Provide Justice for Victims
2 days 19 hours ago
The death of Affan Kurniawan, an online motorcycle taxi driver who participated in mass action and was run over by security apparatus vehicles, cannot be viewed as an isolated incident. This event is part of the face of systematic state violence; the apparatus is used to silence the people's voices with impunity that continues to be allowed.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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Women,
Indonesia,
Protest movements
Indonesian Women's Alliance (API)
Visiting a secret anarchist warehouse in Ukraine
3 days 19 hours ago
The Ukrainian left acts where official systems fail. Bjarke Friborg and Helene Vadsten visited Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine. Here is Helene's accout of the visit.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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Denmark,
Ukraine
Helene Vadsten
If only land were expropriated in South Africa…
4 days 13 hours ago
South Africans have been bombarded with criticisms of South Africa's Expropriation Act in recent months. It has even become a major talking point on social media platforms. One unforgettable moment was the infamous scene on national television featuring claims of “mass graves and killings” of white farmers, an absurd spectacle promoted by Trump and his allies in the White House. This propaganda video claimed that white farmers were being systematically murdered, feeding the narrative that the Expropriation Act was a tool for reverse racial discrimination, land seizure and genocide.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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South Africa,
Farmers/peasants/land
Fani Ncapayi, Mercia Andrews
Union president to get married
4 days 14 hours ago
Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war who defended Mariupol and then spent 20 months in Russian captivity, has just been elected as the new president of the LGBTQ+ military union.
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News from around the world
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Ukraine,
LGBT
Palestine, Sudan, and the Global North's Indifference
5 days 16 hours ago
Gilbert Achcar
Negotiations in Alaska
6 days 10 hours ago
Posle
Meet Chloe: life as a Welsh Trans person in 2025
1 week ago
The more I talk with cis people on the left, the more I realise how out of touch they are with the realities faced by the trans community. Whenever the discrimination we face enters conversations, a chorus of voices responds to tell everyone that “the left” needs to “prioritise working class issues” and not be “distracted” from “genuine material concerns”. In the interest of educating cis comrades who've been misled by this framing, today we're going to use a mix of studies, surveys and anecdotal evidence to explore the life of the average trans person in Wales. Let's see how well the picture of trans people as comfortable middle class ideologues holds up to scrutiny…
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IVP607 - August 2025
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LGBT,
Cymru/Wales
Nora Rhiannon
Goodyear closure demands a paradigm shift: Workers must take over factories
1 week 1 day ago
The closure of Goodyear in Kariega (formerly called Uitenhage) is more than just another company shutting its doors. It is a brutal reminder of the structural crisis facing South Africa's working class. Factories, once held as pillars of stability, are now abandoned shells, as corporations chase profits across borders, discarding workers like disposable tools.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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South Africa
Siyabulela Mama
Syria's future won't be secure through Israel normalisation
1 week 2 days ago
As al-Sharaa leads Syria further towards normalisation with Israel, Joseph Daher argues that alignment with the US & its allies won't bring lasting stability.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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Syria,
Israel
Joseph Daher
Trump's Test Case: Deploying the Military to Washington, DC
1 week 3 days ago
IN A LONG rant of over 70 minutes at an August 10 news conference, Trump claimed that the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., “has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs, and homeless people. And we are not going to take it anymore.”
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IVP607 - August 2025
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United States (USA),
Racism and Islamophobia
Malik Miah
Women in the Shadow of Global Fascism: The Narrative of an Afghan Girl & a Truth Which Knows No Boundaries
1 week 4 days ago
For the past four years, I have been breathing in a country where the sky is constantly collapsing on women's heads. As an Afghan girl, I welcome each sunrise not knowing whether I will see sunset on that day. In the ominous shadow of the Taliban, being a woman is not only a limitation but a crime, a crime whose punishment is exclusion from social and human life.
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IVP607 - August 2025
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Women,
Afghanistan
Azadeh Omid
Lebanon's Sovereignty Battle Isn't Just Over Arms
1 week 5 days ago
“When citizens see the state not as an enforcer but as a guarantor of rights, Lebanon will have moved from asserting sovereignty to constructing it.”
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IVP607 - August 2025
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Lebanon
Joseph Daher, Sami Atallah, Sami Zoughaib
Walden Bello looks back on Filipino and global struggles
1 week 6 days ago
In Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love, Walden Bello remembers a rich life as a scholar and activist, from agitating against U.S. support for Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming a leading critic of neoliberal globalization to joining the Philippine House of Representatives and running for vice-president.
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Reviews section
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Philippines,
Reviews,
Historical events and figures
Alex de Jong
Labour's Polycrisis
1 week 6 days ago
A concept that takes on a life of its own often says a lot about the material conditions and structure of feeling of the time. Polycrisis, recently re-popularised by the historian Adam Tooze, was first coined in an earlier era of multiple crises in the 1970s. For Tooze, polycrisis points to “this experience of not a single crisis with a single clearly defined logic…but this coming together at a single moment of things which, on the face of it, don't have anything to do with each other, but seem to pile onto each other”, and he locates the beginning of the current polycrisis in 2008 at the point of the Great Recession.
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Features
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Philippines,
South Korea,
China,
Indonesia,
Asia,
Trade unions/workplace organizing,
Hong Kong
Kevin Lin
The Heavy Legacy of Leon Trotsky
1 week 6 days ago
For more than twenty years, revolutionary Marxists have been questioning themselves: was their missed appointment with ecology, in the 60s to 90s of the last century, attributable to Marx and Engels? If so, to what extent? Hundreds of pages have been written on the subject. Although the thesis of a "Marx ecology," defended by J.B. Foster, is somewhat exaggerated, no one dares to seriously maintain anymore that the authors of the Communist Manifesto were productivists who fetishized technology and had no idea of natural limits...
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Features
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Ecology and the Environment,
Fourth International
Daniel Tanuro
Michel Raptis, the struggle for Algeria and the risks of solidarity
1 week 6 days ago
The June 1960 arrests of Michel ‘Pablo' Raptis and his Dutch comrade Sal Santen in Amsterdam triggered a series of revelations regarding the Algeria-solidarity of Fourth International members. Together with a small number of comrades Raptis and Santen organised material support for the Algerian struggle against French colonialism. One aspect of this work was especially controversial: the plan to counterfeit money. The ‘Raptis and Santen case' led to fierce conflicts within the leadership of (…)
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Features
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Fourth International,
Algeria,
Historical events and figures
Alex de Jong
Checked
1 hour 40 minutes ago
International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.
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