Recent developments in northern Syria – particularly east of the Euphrates – carry grave implications for both the Kurdish condition and the broader Syrian situation. Let us examine these implications, beginning with the Kurdish issue.
- IVP612 - January 2026 / Syria, KurdistanDespite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa's government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected.
- IVP612 - January 2026 / Syria, KurdistanIn less than two weeks, the Islamic Republic repeated—on a vast and horrifying scale—all the crimes it has committed over forty-seven years of bloody rule. As many had feared, “the government filled the prisons and cemeteries with protesters.”
By cutting off all means of communication—from the internet to text messages and phone lines—the authorities carried out a massacre in total silence. They labeled the victims “rioters” and “enemies” and opened the way for the continuation of an (…)
Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region.
- Features / Serbia“In the face of threats to press freedom in Serbia, and in particular state pressure, a coalition has been created to demand and act for independent information. Press freedom in Serbia is in serious decline: threats, harassment and attacks are frequent, and institutional protection is increasingly unreliable. ”
- Features / SerbiaThey are Baloch, Moroccan or Afghan. Crowded into camps around Belgrade, some of them attempt ‘games', i.e. they try to cross the border with smugglers. The others, resigned to their fate, learn to live in appalling conditions. Since the closure of the Balkan route, Serbia has established itself as Europe's border guard.
- Features / Serbia, MigrationEnvironmental struggles and protests against the destruction of the natural environment are common in the Balkans, and Serbia is no exception. The most recent and symbolic of these is the protest against the installation of lithium mines in the west of the country. During our trip, we met with an activist from the anti-extractivist collective Marš Sa Drine in a hotel in downtown Belgrade, away from the prying ears of the Vučić regime.
- Features / Ecology and the Environment, SerbiaStatement adopted by the Executive Committee of SAP (Socialistisk Arbejderpolitiks), Danish section of the Fourth International, on 26 January 2026.
- IVP612 - January 2026 / Denmark, Greenland“Debating the lessons of the experience of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria should not take precedence over our duty of solidarity; on the contrary, it should complement it.”
- IVP612 - January 2026 / Syria, Kurdistan“the street is the product of a decade of accumulated pressure, repression, and scattered bottom-up organizing. Famous figures arrive late. The real danger is that, instead of strengthening the movement's diversity and real field experience, projects emerge whose goal is not to open a road to freedom—but to manage and control a movement that has already broken out of control.”
- IVP612 - January 2026 / Iran, Protest movements“The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance.”
- IVP612 - January 2026 / United States (USA)“The central task is to defend the homeland's sovereignty with anti-imperialism from those who live by their labour—that is, every step in defence of the Republic must be accompanied by the demand for redemocratisation of Venezuelan society and wage justice. There is no territorial sovereignty without political sovereignty.“
- IVP612 - January 2026 / VenezuelaPrime Minister Takaichi announced the dissolution of The House of Representatives and the general election at a press conference on January 19th. The general election is to be held on Sunday, February 8th. This brief essay will examine the current political situation, focusing on what the snap election means and why a new party, the Centrist Reform Coalition, was formed by the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and the Komeito Party (Komeito).
- IVP612 - January 2026 / JapanThe new Manifesto of the Fourth International is available in English from Resistance Books London or the IIRE, Amsterdam. This “Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution - Break with capitalist growth”, is a document that marks a new stage in the history of the movement founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his comrades.
Since Babeuf's Manifesto of the Equals (1796) and the Communist Manifesto (1848), many documents of this kind have emerged throughout the history of the workers' movement. (…)
“The efforts to defend immigrants from ICE raids have all the markings of an authentic nascent social movement. ”
- IVP612 - January 2026 / United States (USA), Migration
