“Regardless of any ethical-political values a strike might hold in a given situation, there is something inherently valuable about it—transcending the specific circumstances that frame it: its nature as an interruption to the mechanical course of things.”

WHAT FOLLOWS ARE my own observations. I have been a member of the Sant Martí, Barcelona district committee of “Ens costa la vida,” the principal coalition of housing rights organizations and minority unions (such as the CGT) planning the General strike in Barcelona. I was on the agitation/propaganda committee, which leafletted several locations and put up posters around our district. We had between 60 and 100 in attendance at our district meetings. There were at least a dozen other district committees also operating. The housing unions seemed to be the principal movers behind the coalition

“The convoy thus opens an important stage for a more interconnected solidarity between friends of Ukraine and the West; it is a step forward towards a practical, humane internationalism that prepares for a just peace and the reconstruction of Ukraine with a vision of human and labour needs.”

What once seemed impossible became inevitable. A rising popular and democratic tide defeated the concerted effort of the far right, most of the Brazilian bourgeoisie, Trump and his Big Tech companies, and the “coalition of backwardness” gathered around Flávio Bolsonaro.

This week the Climate Conference of the Parties (COP) moves to Antalya. From 9 to 20 November, delegates to COP31 gather on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast, with Australia's Chris Bowen acting as "president of negotiations" and the Turkish hosts branding it the "implementation COP". Climate and social justice activists are entitled to ask a blunt question: implementation of what, and for whom?

“The Republican/Trump defeat can also be seen as part of an international anti-authoritarian trend coming weeks after the defeat of Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil and several months after the defeat of far-right authoritarian Viktor Orban in Hungary. ”

After 5 November, the government has been weakened, but the movement faces a second phase.

After Israel's election, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot may have to lean on Arab parties to form a coalition. But even the opposition is unlikely to back away from Israel's war with Iran and efforts to annex Gaza.

What the Brazilian working class, especially our younger segment, achieved over this past month will be remembered as one of the greatest electoral victories in history.

“This tragedy has therefore occurred in a context where these speeches of the current leaders of the RN can spread in the media, without provoking the reactions that the declarations of Jean Marie Le Pen still provoked in the 1990s. The reason for this is simple. The political class, in its vast majority, now wishes to integrate the far right, the RN, as a respectable political force with which government agreements can be built and which can even, as in Italy, assume the leadership of a government. ”

This autumn in Italy, in the wake of the protests taking place across the globe, is characterised by a growing sense of awareness amongst the younger generations and their taking to the streets.

On 21 October 2026 mobilisations for education took place in several Greek cities. In Athens, the demonstration brought together around 10,000 people. Solidarity with French youth combines with deep anger: dilapidated institutions, development of private universities, exclusion of students from the public, authoritarian evaluation of teachers and private courses that bleed families.

“We want to stay here,” Rejn, an 18-year-old student, told Reporterre. In Albania, young people are revolting against unemployment, corruption and the lack of prospects. Since 13 October, university and high school students have been demonstrating in Tirana and several other cities. Their demand: the departure of prime minister Edi Rama, in power since 2013.

This year's midterm election cost both major parties $12 billion—an all-time record. Politicians depend on this money to win elections, and this way donors buy candidates and parties.

“We envision a movement in which the youth take a leading role, joined by leftist and progressive organisations, defense fronts, various social movements, the Confederación General de Trabajadores del Perú (General Confederation of Workers of Peru, the largest trade union), Sindicato Unitario de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú (the Unified Union of Education Workers of Peru), women's groups, neighbourhood associations, professional bodies, workers, and the Peruvian people as a whole.”

By excluding a critic and arresting protesters, the British state is enforcing its own definition of the public good.

The world is on fire with the spirit of resistance. We are seeing mass protests from India to the Spanish state demanding the right to live, to work and to learn in decent conditions. We are seeing strong resistance to the far right - for example in the magnificent victory of Lula-, across the planet. Young people from France to Brazil are in the forefront of these protests. Thousands upon thousands of people are visiting IVP to understand what's going on and see what revolutionaries are fighting for. - so we need to upgrade our systems.

In the closing weeks and days of the November US “midterm election” campaigns, the likelihood that the Democratic party will win enough local elections to give them a majority in the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate, has significantly increased as the Republicans find themselves on the defensive in several formerly “safe” electoral districts including some which have not seen a Democratic victory in decades.

October was a month of the streets, and this issue follows a wave of youth and housing protest across southern and western Europe while three elections went against the right. In France, Léon Crémieux traces the groundswell that threatens Macron, from the secondary-school blockades to 17 October, "a historic day of mobilization" comparable to the pension protests of 2023; Olivier Besancenot finds reasons to believe, Antoine Larrache judges the movement stronger from the outset than the 2006 fight against the CPE, and NPA-l'Anticapitaliste demands the resignation of the ministers Nuñez and Geffray over the repression of pupils. Crémieux's second piece asks where class-struggle trade unionism stands as 2027 approaches.

Given the massive turnout (including a multitude of young people) at the few demonstrations that were able to take place on the weekend of October 24-25 in France (some authorized, others not, such as in Bordeaux and Marseille), as well as the one organized against the National Rally congress in Orléans (20,000 demonstrators), it is clear that the social protest movement that began in September reached a turning point on October 17. With the next major event scheduled for November 5, with the call for strikes and demonstrations against all the anti-social measures of the Lecornu government, tensions continue to rise in France.