International Viewpoint

“Solidarity is not a slogan. It is a material stance. It means choosing a side when no perfect options exist. And today, choosing means standing with those who resist, with those who do not surrender, with those who try to defend their lives and their freedom even within a terrible context.”

Ahead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labour activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine.
In Sweden, such action was already underway. In March 2022, Swedish dockers had begun a blockade of Russian ships. This decision, supported by a nationwide vote among the Swedish Dockworkers' (…)

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first Land Day – the annual memorial and protest day of Palestinian citizens of Israel. On 30 March 1976 Israeli police and border guards shot dead six Palestinian citizens and wounded hundreds more.

Last night, the world once again witnessed Israel's absolute impunity. The Israeli army carried out a raid in international waters, intercepting and rendering several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) inoperable. This assault took place off the coast of Crete – nearly 1,000 km from Gaza!

A strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.

“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”

There are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.

“I fired them like dogs.” This is the formula that US president Donald Trump, with the elegance we know him for, used to sum up his battle with the American company Anthropic. He will have to wait a little longer before bragging: in a first order issued on 27 March 2026, the court suspended the blacklisting of the artificial intelligence (AI) giant, whose tools can therefore still be used by administrations, contrary to the president's wishes. But the tug-of-war is not over, and we must take the measure of what is at stake: the United States' use of AI in the service of a regime of terror.

Amandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.

Mainstream Pakistan is basking in (self)glory. As host of the US-Iran negotiations — rumours of a second-round abuzz — Islamabad is upbeat. From talk show hosts to YouTube influencers, the one-dimensional message is clear: Pakistan has finally been assigned the role it deserves in the global hierarchy.

Expanded and revised version of the contribution presented at the Bensaïd Seminar organised in Amsterdam by the Fourth International on 3, 14 and 15 January 2012, at the premises of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)

During a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump made racist comments on people of Somali origin, calling them “low-IQ” and “bad people”.

“The future of Hungary is in the hands of the thousands of young people who, since Sunday night, have invaded the streets of Budapest, in the civil society that is mobilizing and organizing, in the possibility that they will not stop there and not be satisfied with Magyar's victory.”

On Monday, March 30, Salah Sarsour, President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) was stopped by a dozen vehicles and arrested by 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who first took him to the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois, and then to the Clay County Justice Center, near Terre Haute, Indiana.

The far-right mafia managed to reach the second round. To achieve this, they and the entire mafia pact in Congress forged a strategy to avoid being defeated again, as had happened in 2021. The strategy employed consisted of a series of measures that express the decay of bourgeois democracy as we know it and, at the same time, reflect anti-popular authoritarianism.

In this review of two books about the development of anti- and de-colonial Marxism, Paul Le Blanc recommends an account of the development of Marx's thought with regard to the class dynamics and revolutionary possibilities of global struggles. Developments in Marx's thinking may be usefully put into conversation with thinkers from the Global South if done so in an analytical way.

Nancy Holmstrom's From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature is a collection of essays written across several decades by a philosopher whose commitment to theoretically and politically integrating Marxism and feminism has remained unfashionably steady across half a century of shifting intellectual trends.

This document traces the path taken by the International, from Trotsky's modernist concerns to the adoption of the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution and the campaign waged around it by the sections.

“The danger of a great catastrophe … is imminent. All the newspapers have written about this time and again. Everybody says this. Everybody admits it. Everybody has decided it is so. Yet nothing is being done.”

This isn't Greta Thunberg speaking truth to power. This was Lenin.

The Palestinian Olive Council estimates that approximately one million olive trees have been destroyed in Gaza.The World Bank estimates that the war on Lebanon generated approximately 22 million tonnes of waste.