“On that day, in the midst of repression, we learned that international feminist solidarity is a bulwark against barbarism, a source of hope and a weapon against oppression.”
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, Women, AlgeriaOn 1st October 1, a general strike was called in Greece by the GSEE (single private sector confederation), ADEDY (public sector federation) and many other federations and unions. It was very popular and focused on the rejection of a monstrous bill: allowing a13-hour working day for the same employer (we know that many Greeks have long been reduced to having two jobs).
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Greece, Trade unions/workplace organizingJoanna Misnik (6 September 1943-3 September 2025) was a leading Fourth Internationalist in the United States for many decades. International Viewpoint published a number of tributes earlier. This substantive essay traces Joanna's political life and underlines her important contribution.
- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / United States (USA), Obituary, Fourth InternationalThe original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.
- Features / MarxismThe movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Tunisia, Morocco, Youth and student movementsMillions of people in 2,600 cities in all 50 of the United States participated in the second round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump's increasingly authoritarian and inhumane government. I was one, marching in a labor union contingent in New York City. The organizers claimed that at least seven million of us marched and rallied across America, which would make it the largest protest in U.S. history.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / United States (USA)Since the 2022 popular uprising in Sri Lanka that ousted President Rajapaksa, South Asia has been swept by a wave of revolts that have toppled three governments and threaten most regimes.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Philippines, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kashmir, NepalU.S. IMPERIALISM IS reaching a new level under Trump's second administration. Amid the instability of the U.S. economy and its global power, the American president is pursuing an openly aggressive foreign policy, combining threats, acts of aggression, and distancing the United States from multilateral bourgeois institutions that it once helped create.
- Features / United States (USA), BrazilNATO's joint declaration, signed on June 25 at its meeting in The Hague, shortly after the 12-day war against Iran, confirmed the subordination of the European powers—led by Great Britain, Germany, and France—to the Trumpist strategy of remilitarising Europe within a global framework of inter-imperialist competition and the Transatlantic bloc's shared responsibility for the genocide that the State of Israel continues to perpetrate against the Palestinian people.
- Features / United States (USA), War drive/Anti-war movements, NATOFollowing Ismail Haniyeh's assassination by Israel in Tehran on 31 July 2024 he was succeeded as head of Hamas' political bureau for the whole movement by Yahya Sinwar, who had led Hamas' political bureau for the Gaza Strip since 2017. According to Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official in Beirut, speaking to al-Jazeera, this choice was adopted ‘unanimously'. Sinwar himself was killed by Israeli occupation forces, apparently unaware of his identity, on 17 October 2024.
- Features / PalestineThe fall of Dina Boluarte from the Peruvian presidency was driven by Fujimorism and its reactionary allies in parliament. Congress decided to remove the president from office a few months before the presidential elections, scheduled for 12 April 2026. The controversial president of Congress, José Jerí, took over the presidency.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / PeruThe Vietnam-Dioxin Collective is part of a decolonial ecology since the cause is not only ecological but is also the result of colonial and imperialist logics and of a capitalist system that produces environmental crises (which are in fact continuous) and wars in times of crisis. We demand justice for the victims of Agent Orange, a chemical and defoliant weapon used during the US-led Imperial War in Vietnam.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Vietnam, Ecology and the Environment, War drive/Anti-war movementsAmandla! interviewed Bridgette Nkomana about gender based violence (GBV) and the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Sexual politics / South Africa, LGBTAmandla! interviewed Denia Jansen, Co-ordinator of the gender based violence (GBV) programme for the Rural Women's Assembly (RWA)
- Feminism / Women, South Africa
