The general strike of June 3rd paralysed a significant number of businesses and services. There is a widespread awareness among the working class that the package of dozens of labour laws represents a mortal threat to their future.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizingStatement by Democracia Socialista (Socialist Democracy) Fourth International section in.Puerto Rico)
- News from around the world / Puerto Rico, LGBTThe G7 summit will be held in Évian from June 15 to 17. The heads of government and central banks from North America, the major European powers, and Japan will meet there to try to resolve their differences and consider common responses to the problems they face. South Korea has been invited, as well as India, Brazil, and Kenya.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / France“Violence against women is a structural phenomenon that demands a comprehensive response that cannot be dictated by “fragmentary interventions driven by fleeting media sensationalism or purely formal laws.” Sociologist Caterina Peroni discusses the relevance of this penal response here. ”
- Feminism / Italy, Women, Features“Even defeating Milei in the 2027 presidential elections would be significant. It would concretely demonstrate that, whether through insurrection or the ballot box, the far right can be defeated. And if the anti-capitalist left plays a decisive role in these movements, it would serve as an example for the left internationally.”
- IVP617 - June 2026 / ArgentinaThe 2026 West Bengal Assembly election was possibly the most important, not just for the province of West Bengal, but with an all-India significance. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies had found in the 2024 Parliamentary elections that they had gone over the peak and were in a decline. With the bulk of India's TV channels and much of the print media owned by a small number of houses all aligned with dominant capitalist groups that support the Modi government, the predictions had been for a massive BJP and NDA sweep. Some Exit Polls even gave them close to 400 seats in the 543 member parliament. In reality the BJP won 240 seats, less than a majority, and even with all its allies it had just 293 seats. It was evident that the fascist chariot was slowing down.
- Features / IndiaVladimir Putin's regime is beginning to show signs of frailty amidst its ongoing imperialist war on Ukraine. Kyiv has fought the regime to a standoff, Russia's casualties mount to about 1.2 million dead and wounded, and Russia's economy, despite the temporary sugar rush of increased oil prices, faces mounting problems. Here Tempest's Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin's war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
- Features / RussiaThis 1976 pamphlet first appeared as a series of articles in the Workers News, a fortnightly journal of socialist news and analysis.
- Features / Britain, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Historical events and figuresTHIS VALUABLE COLLECTION serves a dual function. Most obviously, it connects readers with the largest organization on the U.S. Left today — Democratic Socialists of America.
- Reviews section / United States (USA), New parties of the leftThe left in the United States is once again, as always, debating how to engage in electoral politics. The debate seems more meaningful this year when more voters consider themselves to be independents (45%) than to be either Republicans (27%) or Democrat (27%). Could the left now present the disaffected with a political alternative.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / United States (USA)After the Israeli army's violent interception of the Gaza flotilla, activists have denounced humiliation and violence — a long-documented glimpse into the torture and sexual violence suffered by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. More than 430 activists from the 50 boats that set out to break the blockade of Gaza were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation army between Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 May, in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, up to 500 km from the coast of Gaza for the most distant boats and about 100 kilometres for the closest.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / Palestine, Israel“It's turning out to be a major general strike; the data we have from last night shows workers are determined to treat today as a major day of struggle,” said the CGTP's General Secretary in the morning outside one of the striking schools in Lisbon.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / Portugal, Trade unions/workplace organizingIn Bolivia, mobilizations against austerity and an agrarian reform favourable to the concentration of land have weakened the government of Rodrigo Paz and his neoliberal policies.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / BoliviaIs this the beginning of a shift in dynamics? To attempt to formulate an answer, our perspective cannot begin with the latest election results, but rather with an analysis of Andalusian political history. In this regard, we operate on a fundamental premise: there is no electoral victory without a prior social and political victory. In the south of the Spanish state, the right wing did not conquer the institutions by chance in 2018; it did so by first winning the battle for "common sense", displacing collective frames of reference and colonising the public agenda long before the ballot box validated its hegemony.
- IVP617 - June 2026 / Spanish stateFrom 18 to 25 July 2026, the Movement for Socialism (BfS/MPS) of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Internationale Sozialistische Organisation (ISO) in Germany, is organising the 41st summer camp of the Fourth International.
- News from around the world / Youth camp, Germany, Fourth International, Switzerland
