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For a year now, young people in Serbia have been continuing their fight for a democratic society in the face of Aleksandar Vučić's authoritarian regime. On both sides of Serbia, student marches are criss-crossing the country in the direction of Novi Sad to commemorate the collapse of the railway station, responsible for the deaths of 16 people on 1 November 2024. This tragic event triggered a political protest on an unprecedented scale.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Serbia, Youth and student movements, Protest movements

On the night of October 13th to 14th, at 2 a.m., by order of the Dean of the National Technical University of Athens, heavily armed special police forces, unprovoked and provocatively, invaded the historic site of the Polytechnic and arrested 15 students.

- News from around the world / Greece, Youth and student movements

While diplomatic manoeuvres take centre stage, the Ukrainian people, in an increasingly difficult context, continue to resist, including in the occupied zones.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Ukraine

I september døde en nyfødt i sin mors arme inde på fabrikken Nile Linen Group i Alexandria. De ansatte reagerede med en to-dages strejke og sit-in ved fabriksporten, som tvang ledelsen og Arbejdsministeriet til at indfri en række krav.

As international pressure mounts to demand the restoration of constitutional order, young people from GenZ and workers are sketching out what the Madagascar of tomorrow could look like.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Madagascar

Fælledby skal ud at køre med 61.500 tons forurenet jord – og 10.000 tons dumpes på Lynetteholm!

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

The Russian Federation continues its brutal, full-scale war on Ukraine. Every day, Russia launches missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities, destroying workplaces, homes, and entire communities, while imposing its criminal regime on the temporarily occupied territories.

- News from around the world / Ukraine, Trade unions/workplace organizing

“The recent decision by Ibama (the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) to grant the state-controlled oil company, Petrobras, an environmental licence for exploratory drilling along the Equatorial Margin, near the mouth of the Amazon River, represents a huge step backwards for the country's environmental and energy policy. It shows that the logic of fossil fuel-based development continues to dominate within the Brazilian state, something that we urgently need to overcome.”

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment

The United States is preparing for war against Venezuela. While President Donald Trump has asserted that the country's goal is to stop shipments of Venezuelan drugs to the United States, in private conversations U.S. officials have made it clear that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. This forms part of Trump's goal of reasserting U.S. domination in Latin America such as it exercised in the nineteenth century by gunboats and in the twentieth century by installing friendly governments.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / United States (USA), Venezuela

For første gang siden regeringen gav Indfødsretsudvalget beføjelse til at indkalde personer, der har ansøgt om dansk statsborgerskab, til en samtale om deres værdier, er en person nu blevet fjernet fra det lovforslag, som ellers skulle have givet dem et dansk pas og stemmeret til folketingsvalg. Dette markerer endnu en undergravning af elementære rettigheder for etniske minoriteter i Danmark.

I Rusland og det besatte Ukraine er mange tusinde civile blevet fængslet eller forsvundet for at have udtalt sig imod invasionen. Tallene afspejler en nedkæmpelse af oppositionelle, der er værre end på noget tidspunkt siden 1950'erne.

On Saturday 11 October 2025, at the Buchenwald memorial and on the initiative of the association Les amis d'Arbeiter und Soldat, a tribute was paid to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald.

- News from around the world / France, Germany, Fourth International, Historical events and figures

Catherine Connolly's resounding victory in the Presidential election in Ireland is a watershed moment. It is the first time that the left has won a majority of votes in a national election. This was not a narrow victory either; Catherine won the largest percentage and largest total vote of any Presidential candidate in history.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Ireland

Siden våbenhvilen i Gaza har Israel intensiveret sine operationer mod palæstinensere på Vestbredden, udført militære angreb i nord og øget bosætterangreb på palæstinensere, der høster oliven.

Shawn Fain, formand for United Auto Workers, fremlagde for nylig fire hovedpunkter, som han mener bør udgøre kernen i et politisk program for arbejdere. Han sagde, at en omfattende strejke i maj 2028 er en måde at kæmpe for disse prioriteter på.

On Sunday 26 October 2025 the mid-term legislative elections will take place in Argentina. The far-right president was in danger of suffering a major defeat. But his friend Trump came to his rescue.

- IVP609 - October 2025 / Argentina

“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, Algeria

On 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 organizing

Joanna 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 International

The 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 / Marxism