By early May, Putin's regime appeared to be facing a perfect storm: a battlefield stalemate, economic stagnation, and a visibly faltering state response to crises ranging from flooding in Dagestan to a foot-and-mouth outbreak in Siberia. At the same time, the Kremlin intensified mobile-internet blackouts and expanded efforts by the security services to tighten control over social media.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / RussiaBy dint of dragging on, the United States' war against Iran seems to be becoming a real international tipping point whose scope varies according to the region. Its consequences are expected to be major in Asia. On the geopolitical terrain, of course, as illustrated by the Xi-Trump summit in Beijing on 14-15 May. But it will also aggravate the social crisis in many countries as well as boosting the global climate and ecological crisis. It is the beginning of multiple upheavals that will only be fully measured with hindsight.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), China, Iran, TaiwanAs soon as he became prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis built parallel powers and, seven years later, he is swimming in scandals marking the privatization of the state for his own benefit and that of his relatives and the employers.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / GreecePresident Donald Trump's Justice Department on May 20, 2026 charged Raúl Castro with murder. Raúl, the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and established a Communist pro-Soviet state by 1961. The charges against him stem from February 1996 when a Cuban exile group called Brothers to the Rescue flew two planes toward Cuba but while still in international airspace were shot down by Cuban fighter planes, killing four people in the planes. Now the Trump government is holding Raúl Castro, who has served as head of the Communist Party and chief of state, responsible for those deaths.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), CubaBehind the so-called ceasefire, the reconstruction of Gaza is blocked, and Israel is already preparing a new large-scale offensive. As always with Israel, agreements are not respected and ceasefires are mainly used to rearm and prepare for the next offensive. Nearly 800 people have been killed during this so-called ceasefire.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / PalestineFour years of war have not suspended social and political conflicts in Ukraine. Civil society, largely engaged in a war of survival in the face of Russian aggression, continues to fight to defend its rights.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Ukraine“We need a strong Andalusian left-wing force in the Cortes that can be decisive in ensuring our region is no longer treated as a political periphery. Andalusia's problems must, for once, be at the forefront. And we aspire to be in Congress and to play a decisive role.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / Spanish state, National questionMay Day actions in the US called by May Day Strong (MDS), a coalition of left led union such as the Chicago teacher's union (CTU) and union locals in Minneapolis, California and elsewhere, took place throughout the country under the slogan, “No Work, No School, No Shopping” to protest Trump's domestic and international policies. Two articles - by Kay Mann on the nationwide picture and Randy Furst gives a focus on Minneapolis.
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements“It is important to remember that the Islamic Republic of Iran — and more broadly the Iranian capitalism it administers — is not a simple passive victim of this warlike configuration. It is a fully-fledged player, committed to its own logic of power, internal consolidation and regional influence.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Israel, IranThe urgency of the global crisis of capitalism, particularly because of the ecological crisis, is undeniable. Answering this question requires a clear vision of the question of power and the transition to another society.
- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Strategy“Fighting for race and gender equality and justice is part of the process of uniting the working class.”
- Features / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves'. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”
- Features / Marxism, Turkey, Kurdistan“Shi's experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream ideology.”
- Features / United States (USA), China, TrotskyItaly's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)
- Features / Italy, Marxism“Historically redistricting has been carried out in all states at the time of the decennial census to reflect changes in population, but now it is being done between censuses in a partisan manner to benefit one party.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Racism and IslamophobiaThe New Fascist International, by Ugo Palheta. We need £2,000 to finance the translation
- News from around the world / Fascism“When Shawn Fain [president of the United Auto Workers (UAW)] supported Trump's auto tariffs, he made the mistake of thinking that a narcissistic businessman could develop a policy in workers' interests. For Trump, tariffs are a weapon used to bludgeon workers in other countries.”
- IVP616 - May 2026 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing
