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Radical Socialist Statement on Operation Sindoor

10 hours 39 minutes ago

The Indian Armed Forces have launched Operation Sindoor which has carried out strikes in as many as nine places spread over three cities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Punjab province while a counter-strike by Pakistan, also to be condemned, has led to lives lost in Poonch. All this is an extremely worrisome development, though not entirely unexpected.

- News from around the world / Pakistan, India, Kashmir
Radical Socialist

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

16 hours 26 minutes ago

The debate on the Left over the war in Ukraine has exposed serious disagreements on international questions, ones that have been brewing and deepening for over a decade. From 2001 to 2011, there was general unity on the socialist Left about the question of imperialism and the response to it. This was a period of explicit and obvious attacks on sovereign countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and other imperialist forces. This naked imperialist aggression triggered global mass movements against the so-called “War on Terror.”

- Features / Marxism, Campism
Simon Hannah

Dreaming as internationalist materialists

20 hours 21 minutes ago

“We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples).

And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us today is not changing our dreams and desires. Certainly not going poaching on the side of those opposed to us, claiming that “only the far right dreams”.”

- Features / Marxism
Alexis Cukier , Franck Gaudichaud, Théo Roumier, Vincent Gay, Yoletty Bracho

Is the Agreement on Useful Kopalini useful to Ukraine?

21 hours 13 minutes ago

Today the Verkhovna Rada votes for ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United States on the creation of the American-Ukrainian investment fund for reconstruction. Despite the loud promises of "partnership" and "investment", the document causes serious concerns.

- News from around the world / United States (USA), Ukraine
Sotsialnyi Rukh

Climate sanctions against fossil-addicted capitalists

1 day 11 hours ago

The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist', withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations negotiations, and should now be sanctioned. But annual UN COPs (Conferences of the Parties) won't, because the ‘climate action' approach is dominated by the West and BRICS. They continue to deny the world long-overdue ‘climate justice' and they won't punish Trump's climate crimes.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa
Patrick Bond

Reform – Labour is feeding the monster

3 days 1 hour ago

The centre cannot hold! In the wake of Reform's massive gains in local elections, Dave Kellaway investigates the new political landscape.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Britain
Dave Kellaway

East Asia: War and revolution

3 days 10 hours ago

Once France had been defeated after the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu (1954), the great powers imposed the Geneva Accords, which were highly unfavourable to the Vietminh, temporarily dividing the country into two military regrouping zones.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / France, Vietnam
Pierre Rousset

General Strike in Panama – against extractivism, pension reform and the return of U.S. troops

3 days 10 hours ago

Thousands rallied in Panama City on May Day, in the midst of a general strike against privatisation, copper mining and Donald Trump's threats to Panamanian sovereignty.

- News from around the world / Panama
Iain Bruce

May Day in America, is it now here to stay?

4 days 15 hours ago

May Day is not a holiday in the United States. In most states and cities, it is not celebrated. In some places, in schools or public parks, people put up a May pole and dance around it to celebrate the arrival of spring. We did that in my elementary school in Chicago when I was a child. The official Labor Day in the United States, which is a national holiday, is celebrated on the first Monday in September and marks the end of summer and students' return to school. But maybe this year things finally changed.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / United States (USA), Historical events and figures
Dan La Botz

Nigeria: against oil industry impunity

5 days 9 hours ago

The Niger Delta has been totally devastated by decades of oil exploitation in Nigeria by the major Western oil companies. Huge tracts of land and mangrove swamps have been totally contaminated by oil, destroying all living things. People's livelihoods, such as fishing and farming, have been wiped out. There is no longer any drinking water, and the air is polluted by the dozens of flares that burn continuously.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Nigeria
Paul Martial

Mexico: “The right-wing parties are practically in the worst phase of their history”

6 days 9 hours ago

José Luis is an activist in the Fourth International and a member of the Mexican electricians' union. He spoke to Fabrice Thomas while visiting Europe for the world congress of the Fourth International.

- IVP604 - May 2025
Fabrice Thomas, José Luis

Zambia: people are victims of extractivism

1 week ago

Despite recurring environmental disasters and the dangers to the population, the government of Zambia continues its extractivist policy. The southern African country has once again been hit by major pollution. 50 million tonnes of acidic sludge were discharged into the watercourse running alongside the Chinese company Sino Metals in Chambishi, which processes copper ores.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Zambia
Paul Martial

Trump and America: One-hundred days in the waiting room of fascism

1 week 1 day ago

Since taking office 100 days ago, President Donald Trump has been engaged in destroying America's liberal, democratic state and its social welfare systems, taking away citizens' and non-citizens' rights, and attacking the institutions of civil society such as universities and the media. Trump's attack on our government and our society has shocked, disoriented, and disconcerted the American people. The resistance has been growing, but is still too divided, small, and weak to stop Trump

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

Argentina: opposition to Milei revives

1 week 2 days ago

After many months without a significant opposition movement to the government of President Javier Milei on the streets of Argentina, the 36-hour cross-industry strike of 9-10 April and the social reality of the country have brought the movement back to life.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / Argentina
Elias Vola

Vietnam, 30 April 1975 - 50 years ago, a historic victory, but at what price?

1 week 2 days ago

Vietnam's independence was first proclaimed in August 1945, and we could soon be celebrating its 80th anniversary. De Gaulle decided otherwise, sending an expeditionary force to reconquer his lost colony. Indochina had to endure two devastating successive imperial wars, first French, then American. Washington mobilised all the means at its disposal to crush the Vietnamese revolution, certain that it would prevail - and was defeated. The image has gone down in history: the staff of the US (…)

- Features / Vietnam
Pierre Rousset

Hendrik “Pips” Patroons, comrade and friend

1 week 2 days ago

Our comrade Hendrik Patroons, alias “Pips”, passed away in Ghent on April 17, 2025. He was active from an early age in SAP-Antikapitalisten (our organization in Flanders, then called Revolutionaire Arbeiders Liga) and the Fourth International. A convinced revolutionary right up to his last days, he and his companion Marijke Colle left a lasting mark on the organization. He took part in our last national congress in December 2024, and had volunteered to be part of the technical support team for the 18th World Congress of the Fourth International in February 2025, but was unable to do so due to illness. We publish below the tribute paid to him by Alain Tondeur at the funeral ceremony in Wondelgem, near Ghent, on April 25.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Belgium, Obituary, Fourth International
Alain Tondeur
Marcado
7 hours 27 minutes ago
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