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Building grassroots trade unionism – Troublemakers

1 month ago

Troublemakers at Work is a network of union activists who organise an annual conference and meetings about union organising, focussed on grassroots organising by lay union activists. It explores areas such as how to get started building a union in a workplace.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing
Liz Lawrence, Terry Conway

“For the Neofascists, the Law of the Jungle is the Only One That Makes Sense”

1 month ago

Where did the “global neofascist axis” come from, and where is it going? What destabilizing effects might Russia's war in Ukraine have? Ilya Budraitskis and Gilbert Achcar discuss the current conjuncture

- Features / Russia, Ukraine, Fascism
Gilbert Achcar , Ilya Budraitskis

Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century

1 month ago

Enzo Traverso updates his analysis of post-fascism in light of the events of recent years. Reflecting on the rise of the new right and the global crisis of the left, he offers a diagnosis of contemporary challenges and the dangers facing emancipatory struggles in an increasingly complex world.
In a global context marked by the resurgence of far-right forces, historian Enzo Traverso offers in this interview an updated reflection on the concept of post-fascism, which he has been developing (…)

- Features / Fascism
Enzo Traverso, Martí­n Mosquera

Neofascism, Imperialism, War, and Revolution in the Middle East

1 month ago

This interview was conducted online on March 30, 2025, by Rodrigo Utrera, a student of sociology at the University of Chile. (Email: rodrigo.utrera@ug.uchile.cl.) He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Actuel Marx Intervenciones in Chile. The interview was first published in Spanish in that journal (no. 35, August 2025), in an issue dedicated to examining war and its mutations in the twenty-first century.

- Features / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Iran, Fascism
Gilbert Achcar

Our Genocide — Executive Summary

1 month ago

B'TSELEM IS THE long-established Israeli human rights information center. It is one of the two organizations in Israel (along with Physicians for Human Rights) that have now formally identified the Israeli state's war on Gaza as genocide. What follows is the Executive Summary of B'tselem's report titled “OUR GENOCIDE.” You can also read the full report.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Palestine, Israel
B'tselem

Georges has returned, Ziad has left us!

1 month ago

On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, son of the legendary couple Fairouz and Assi Rahbani, took his last breath in a hospital in the Hamra district of Beirut. The Lebanese – and Arab – left is moving from euphoria to tears.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Lebanon
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

Protests follow arrest of union leaders in Panama

1 month ago

Workers and indigenous peoples are mobilizing against the neoliberal agenda of the government of president José Raúl Mulino in Panama. Antônio Neto, from the Brazilian magazine Movimento, interviewed José Cambra on 27 June 2025 about the reasons for the movement, the relationship with US imperialism and the elements of the program of rupture that has become a symbol of popular resistance against austerity and authoritarianism.

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Panama
José Cambra

Corruption (Ukraine): a victory

1 month ago

“For our part, we will know, with the Ukrainian left and the social movement, to walk on both legs as we have done since the beginning of the large-scale war.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Ukraine
Patrick Silberstein

Polski Strajk: first strike amongst temporary workers, mainly Polish migrant workers, in AH and Jumbo distribution centres

1 month ago

“Precarious and migrant workers constitute an important part of the working class, often difficult to organise. The success of this strike can give a boost to this work. It is therefore essential to organise solidarity to support and strengthen the strike.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Netherlands, Poland, Migration, Trade unions/workplace organizing
John Cozijn

Suweida Under Fire: The Consolidation of Power in Damascus, and Sectarianism

1 month 1 week ago

“In this context, the recent events in Suweida demonstrate, once again, that Syria is not experiencing a democratic and inclusive political transition. Rather, it is a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime, structured and led by HTS, under the guise of institutional and international legitimacy.”

- IVP607 - August 2025 / Syria
Joseph Daher

The Mirage of a Palestinian State

1 month 1 week ago

More countries recognizing a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact in recognizing the Palestinian people's right to a state, a right denied by most components of the Zionist establishment, especially the far-right Zionist spectrum that currently governs Israel. However, the meanings and implications of this recognition greatly vary with time.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Palestine
Gilbert Achcar

The Islamic Republic at the end of its tether

1 month 1 week ago

The US-Israeli military intervention against the Islamic Republic of Iran ended on 24 June 2025 after twelve days of intense bombing. This aggression, which has caused heavy civilian casualties, has considerably worsened the social situation in Iran.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Iran
Babak Kia, Collective

Colonial violence in Namibia

1 month 1 week ago

“Germany's recognition of the Herero and Nama genocide has been a lengthy process and remains marred by controversy over the issue of reparations. ”

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Namibia
Paul Martial

You give us corruption, we give you revolution!

1 month 1 week ago

Despite the war, despite the risks, people are taking to the streets. Because they have had enough. On 22 July, in the streets of Kyiv and most cities across Ukraine, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the adoption of Law 12414.

- News from around the world / Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh

Ukraine's New Cabinet: Neoliberal Reforms Threaten Wartime Solidarity

1 month 1 week ago

Ukraine's first government reshuffle since Russia's full-scale invasion has brought Yulia Svyrydenko to power as Prime Minister, but this change offers little hope for ordinary Ukrainians facing wartime hardships. Rather than addressing critical shortages in defence resources and rising poverty, the new cabinet appears committed to accelerating neoliberal reforms that prioritise private capital over public welfare.

- IVP606 - July 2025 / Ukraine
Vitaliy Dudin

Call for the 1st International Antifascist Conference

1 month 2 weeks ago

“we call on international antifascist forces to open a dialogue capable of confronting the destruction being carried out by ultraliberal conservatism – placing unity in the streets against the far right as our top priority.”

- News from around the world / Brazil, Antifascism
Collective
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