Morocco's Gen Z and the Regional Volcano
The 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 movementsThe 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 AfricaOur comrade Andreas Klocke, with whom we were active in what was then the only group in the Greek section of the Fourth International, died at the beginning of October, greatly weakened by a very long illness following a complex operation. In recent years, as far as his strength allowed, Andreas continued to be involved in observing and analysing what could advance a revolutionary crisis.
- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Greece, Obituary, Fourth InternationalThrough their corruption and ethnicist politics, the country's elites are plunging South Sudan into a new abyss of violence. Since its separation from Sudan in July 2011, the country has only experienced civil wars, of varying intensity. For the past eight months, Riek Machar, the vice-president, has been appearing in court on several charges such as crimes against humanity, rebellion and treason.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / South SudanLecornu 2 is a pure Macronist government, made up of technocrats, former Macron advisors, and also those under criminal investigation: Rachida Dati from the Culture Ministry soon to be tried for corruption and influence peddling; Vincent Jeanbrun, Minister of Housing, accused of favoritism in the allocation of housing to relatives.
- News from around the world / FranceOn October 29 the Netherlands will have parliamentary elections, again. In early June, the government of prime-minster Dick Schoof lost its majority as the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders blew up the coalition. Shortly before the elections, the contrast between the most important political events in the Netherlands could hardly be sharper. On 20 September, after an anti-immigration rally, fascists rioted in The Hague. On October 5, a quarter of a million people marched through the streets of Amsterdam to show their solidarity with Palestine.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Netherlands