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Victory for right, neo-fascists in second place in Portuguese elections

21 hours 59 minutes ago

The results of the Portuguese parliamentary elections on 18 May 2025 mark a turning point in the country's politics. The traditional right was comfortably in the lead and the Socialist Party has fewer deputies than the far right (after counting the votes of the emigrant constituencies). The right-wing parties as a whole won two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly, while the left obtained the lowest result in its history.
All the parties to the left of the PS recorded their lowest results. (…)

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Portugal
Daniel Borges

The battle of Los Angeles

1 day 21 hours ago

As "No Kings" protests take place across the US - and in other cities worldwide such as Mexico DF, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - challenging Trump's authoritarian rule, we publish this on the spot account of last weekend in Los Angeles.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / United States (USA)
Tempest Collective

Paul Murphy Detained in Egypt in Rafah Group

2 days 17 hours ago

UPDATE - Paul has been released and passport returned.
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy among a group detained by Egyptian authorities while travelling to Rafah. Contact embassy now.

- News from around the world / Palestine, Ireland, Egypt
People Before Profit

Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle...

3 days 3 hours ago

Resistance to the Russian invasion has not erased class divisions within Ukrainian society. The inequalities of our capitalist societies and the brutal neoliberalism applied by the Zelensky government are significantly affecting the population of Ukraine. The popular classes thus fight on a "double front", against anti-social policies and imperialist aggression.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Ukraine
Gin Vola, Elias Vola

Student protest in Serbia: “either we stop or there will be a civil war”

4 days 1 hour ago

Since November 2024, Serbian students have been leading an unprecedented revolt against Vučić's corrupt government. Along with two Belgian comrades from the Gauche Anticapitaliste, I went to Belgrade to meet them.
In front of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy, a table and camping chairs were set up. A dozen or so students wrapped up in duvets were watching the entrance. On the table were sudokus and packets of cigarettes to pass the time. The students take 8am shifts to secure the faculty, (…)

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Serbia, Youth and student movements
Gaëlle Guehennec

Left fails to win its referendums in Italy

5 days ago

“All five referendums were lost because none reached the quorum of 50% of the electorate. Around 88-89% who voted supported the progressive changes to the labour laws but this went down by 33 percentage points for the change to the citizenship process for immigrants.”

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

ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities!

6 days 5 hours ago

“In response to the resistance of the Latinx-American community to this ICE terrorism, the Trump government has mobilized the California National Guard against the protesters, while Peter Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has threatened to call in the Marines.”

- News from around the world / United States (USA), Migration
Solidarity National Committee

Indonesia's Communists Helped Forge Its National Identity

1 week 1 day 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

1 week 1 day 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 week 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 week 2 days 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

1 week 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

1 week 6 days 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
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9 hours 38 minutes ago
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