Learning & Advancing from Setbacks
“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”
- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”
- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves'. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”
- Features / Marxism, Turkey, Kurdistan“Shi's experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”
- Features / United States (USA), China, TrotskyItaly's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)
- Features / Italy, Marxism“Historically redistricting has been carried out in all states at the time of the decennial census to reflect changes in population, but now it is being done between censuses in a partisan manner to benefit one party.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and IslamophobiaThe New Fascist International, by Ugo Palheta. We need £2,000 to finance the translation
- News from around the world / Fascism“When Shawn Fain [president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)] supported Trump's auto tariffs, he made the mistake of thinking that a narcissistic businessman could develop a policy in workers' interests. For Trump, tariffs are a weapon used to bludgeon workers in other countries.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizingFarooq Sulehria is a member of CADTM-Pakistan. He was in Brazil to attend the First Anti-Fascist Conference in Porto Alegre (March 26-29, 2026). He is the author of the recently published Media Subimperialisms and the Rise of the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan).
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Brazil, South Korea, China, IndiaXenophobic riots are intensifying. They are fuelled by the economic and social crisis, but also by the actions of politicians.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / South Africa, Racism and IslamophobiaOn 4 April 2026, on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of NATO, the Global Anti-Militarist Webinar was held, organised by the “No to NATO” initiative, created following the appeal of the Workers' Party of Turkey (TIP), in which members of the Fourth International are active. Bringing together speakers from several dozen countries and nearly 200 participants, this webinar called for the organization of an International Anti-Imperialist Peace Summit in June 2026, in response to the summit of this criminal organization planned in Turkey. We are releasing the final statement of the webinar.
- News from around the world / Turkey, NATOThe combined results of the 7 May elections have thrown the current UK government into turmoil.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/WalesThe elections across much of Britain on 7 May were a devastating blow to the ruling Labour Party who lost 1,229 councillors in England and also came third in the election for the Welsh Sennedd and lost support in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/WalesThose were the words used by Mick Antoniw, former MS (Member of the Senedd), Counsel General in the Welsh Labour government and a senior member of the Labour Party in Cymru/Wales. He was describing the election on May 7 when Cymru underwent a change of historic proportions.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/WalesThe Scottish Parliament elections on 7 May produced a balance between continuity and change.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Britain, Scotland, Cymru/Wales