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Against the G7, let's build an internationalist resistance in Geneva

3 hours 45 minutes ago

Faced with the G7, which is meeting in Evian to organize the destruction of peoples, the exploitation of living things and the domination of bodies, let us organize our resistance against fascism and imperialism! Let's meet from June 13 to 17, 2026 in Geneva to build the internationalist response!

- News from around the world / France, Switzerland
Juan Tortosa

Trump's Murderous Regime, at Home and Abroad

5 hours 58 minutes ago

During his second term as president, full of confidence and bluster, Donald Trump has turned to rule by killing, by murder, both abroad and at home. Trump's brutality and callousness, the way he talks about the violence against immigrants and Iranians with such lack of empathy and humanity has become the defining characteristic of the regime.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate

22 hours 25 minutes ago

“The deepening climate emergency means that we need to put upfront the question of the climate and the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels. The Middle East is absolutely key to this because it sits at the centre of the world oil and gas industry, particularly in relation to global exports. The politics of the region – from Palestine to Iran – cannot be understood separate from this role of the Middle East in the global energy system.”

- Features / Palestine, United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Ecology and the Environment, Israel, Iran, Kurdistan
Adam Hanieh, Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani

Faultlines in a new epoch of crisis: Imperial rivalry, authoritarianism, and resistance

22 hours 51 minutes ago

“This new epoch of crisis, imperialist rivalry, authoritarianism, and resistance is opening up space for the construction of a new socialist Left. Indeed, all political organizations are now growing from reformism to neo-Stalinism and revolutionary socialism. The struggle is on to shape a new generation's politics, strategies, and tactics for an epoch of crisis and class struggle.”

- Features / United States (USA), World
Ashley Smith

Fascism: a Theory with a History

1 day 6 hours ago

In 2026, no one can seriously view fascism as a purely historiographical matter. We cannot ask “What is fascism?” without considering the reality that surrounds us. This question does not refer exclusively to the past, but also, and above all, to the present—a present marked by the strong rise of the far right. The new wave of authoritarian governments around the world has reignited this debate, but this word, which springs to mind when we think of Donald Trump, Javier Milei, Giorgia (…)

- Features / Fascism
Enzo Traverso

The PSOL and the Anti-Fascist Struggle

2 days 6 hours ago

“We need not only an electoral and party alliance, but also one rooted in the grassroots and social movements. We believe that PSOL is fundamental to this process—combining the re-election of our combative legislators with increasing our seats in Congress and state assemblies, while simultaneously driving social struggles forward.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Brazil, Antifascism
Mariana Riscali

Supreme Court Guts 1965 Voting Rights Act

3 days ago

“I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote,” she stated. “I dissent because the Court's decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity.”

- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and Islamophobia
Malik Miah

The other 8 May, 1945: a mass colonial massacre in Algeria

4 days 9 hours ago

While VE (Victory in Europe) is celebrated on 8 May, a huge massacre began on that day in 1945 in Algeria. Fabrice Riceputi, historian and author of several books, looks back at the events which occurred 81 years ago.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / France, Algeria
Fabrice Riceputi

Guinea in the spiral of dictatorship

5 days 5 hours ago

The latest measure to dissolve political parties in Guinea reinforces a dictatorship that prefers to adopt an extractivist policy at all costs rather than respond to the social needs of the population. Forty political parties were dissolved on the night of Friday 6 to Saturday 7 March by the Guinean government, on the eve of the legislative elections scheduled for May 2026.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Guinea
Paul Martial

The tortuous paths of resistance

6 days 1 hour ago

Iran, Lebanon, Ukraine, Palestine, Mali, Congo, Sudan... The warlike hotbeds seem to be ever more numerous, embodying the extent of the capitalist crisis and also giving the measure of the stakes in facing it.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Imperialism, Anti-imperialism
Antoine Larrache

Iran and the Western left

6 days 3 hours ago

As occupations and wars intensify, anti-imperialism has become a key priority for the global left. This has raised questions about how to organise and mobilise a mass anti-imperialist movement.

- Features / Iran, Anti-imperialism
Cihan Tuğal

Iran Between the Russian and Chinese Models

1 week 1 day ago

Donald Trump claimed to pursue “regime change” in Iran, but in a manner distinct from the George W. Bush administration's use of the term to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was framed as bringing democracy after Saddam Hussein's overthrow. As we have repeatedly argued in these pages, even before the joint U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran (see, for example, “Washington Will Not Bring Democracy to Iran” [Arabic], 10 February 2026), Trump's objective was – and remains – to replicate his Venezuelan strategy: abducting the president to pave the way for a successor willing to cooperate with Washington and its oil interests. In other words, his aim was to “change the regime's behaviour”, not to change the regime itself.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Russia, China, Iran
Gilbert Achcar

The Need for New Leadership for the Working Class in South Africa

1 week 2 days ago

Our comrade Madoda Cuphe discusses current social issues in South Africa, ongoing protests, and the need for political reorganization thirty years after the fall of apartheid.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / South Africa
Madoda Cuphe

Theses for an ecosocialist critique of artificial intelligence

1 week 3 days ago

This text focuses on generative AI. The formulation in theses (unevenly developed) is not intended to establish certainties, but to facilitate debate by the conciseness of the presentation.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Economy, Ecosocialism
Daniel Tanuro

"It is essential to break the encirclement: let's not stop talking about Palestine, Gaza is not far from our home."

1 week 4 days ago

In the night of 29-30 May, as was foreseen by Ramiro Giganti, Israeli forces illegally detained some twenty boats of the flotilla and arrested nearly 200 activists - trade-unionists, healthworkers, solidarity activists, electd representatives. They rendered the boats unusable.

Demonstrations in many countries of the evening of 30 April called for the liberation of all these activists and for the flotilla to continue its mission of bring even symbolic material aid to Gaza and breaking the blockade.

- IVP616 - May 2026 / Palestine
Macéo and Sama, Ramiro Giganti

Searching for international solidarity

1 week 4 days ago

Deeper Grounds, Darker Shadows is the remarkable memoir of Eddie L. Quitoriano, a Filipino revolutionary who traveled across four different continents to find support for the struggle in his home-country. A book filled with stories of subterfuge and encounters with outlaws and dictators, it sheds new light on the history of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the limitations of its revolutionary strategy.

- Reviews section / Philippines, Japan, Reviews, Features
Alex de Jong

The Role of CPB-ML Since August 5, 2024: A Marxist-Leninist Analysis

1 week 4 days ago

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist), or CPB-ML, has re-emerged in a new light following the mass upheavals of August 5, 2024. Rooted in Dhaka and drawing on deep traditions of left-wing militancy and peasant struggle, CPB-ML's role since this pivotal moment has taken on strategic significance—especially when analyzed through Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and the war of position. This article explores how a (…)

- Features / Marxism, Bangladesh
Badrul Alam

“In Algeria, what is fundamental is the state”

1 week 4 days ago

In this previously unpublished interview conducted in June 2012, shortly before the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence, historian and former FLN leader Mohammed Harbi traces Algeria's political trajectory from colonial formation to post-independence bureaucratic rule.

- Features / Fourth International, Algeria, Historical events and figures, Features
Masis Kürkçügil, Mohammed Harbi
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