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.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), PakistanExpanded 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)
- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Daniel Bensaid, FeaturesDuring a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump made racist comments on people of Somali origin, calling them “low-IQ” and “bad people”.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Somalia, Racism and Islamophobia“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.”
- IVP615 - April 2026 / HungaryOn 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.
- News from around the world / United States (USA), Migration, Protest movementsThe 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.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / PeruIn 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.
- Reviews section / MarxismNancy 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.
- Reviews section / Marxism, Women, ReviewsThis 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.
- Features / Fourth International, Ecosocialism“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.
- Features / Fourth International, EcosocialismThe 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.
- Features / Palestine, Ecology and the Environment, Lebanon“Nevertheless, there is today a left-wing sensibility in Lebanon, anti-imperialist, opposed to the occupation and which has concrete effects on the ground, limited but nevertheless real. It is trying to build something, in particular what could be called a form of civil resistance.”
- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, LebanonFor the last two weeks, President Donald Trump and Pope Leo have been arguing about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and about Jesus and the Bible. Trump's words have been accompanied by A.I images he posted on social media, one of himself as Jesus. And now the rightwing evangelical Christians have put together a national program of Bible reading. American politics is at the moment awash in religion.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)
