Books about historical topics can sometimes be a bit difficult. Often, the list of names, facts, anecdotes, and dates is so long that the reader risks getting lost. Moreover, the reasons behind events are not always very clear, nor always explained in a way that is easy to understand.
- Reviews section / Mexico, Reviews, Historical events and figuresThe current debate in much of American society is about whether or not President Donald Trump is preparing a coup. It's everywhere, from popular TV talk shows to sophisticated political journals.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / United States (USA)The youth movement in Morocco continues to defend its main demands for a decent health and education system, for dignity, freedom, social justice, the right to work and against corruption. Young people showed remarkable resistance for three consecutive days, 27-29 September 2025, in the face of the repression and arrests that affected hundreds of people in different cities. The state is preparing to take many of them to court.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Morocco, Youth and student movements“What was new was that on 20 September violent far-right activists—fascists, that is—not only reacted but chose the moment themselves and did so under their own flag. This marks the increased self-confidence of these people.”
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Netherlands, Far RightA second general strike in solidarity with Palestine has been called in Italy for 3 October, we publish the assessment by Sinistra Anticapitalista of the first one on 22 September.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / Palestine, ItalySenior lawyer Nisar Shah from Islamabad was arrested while demonstrating along with his 13 colleagues in a rally in solidarity with the protests in Kashmir against high wages for politicians organised by the lawyers association
- News from around the world / PakistanThe Global Sumud Flotilla set out in the vital attempt to break the Gaza blockade, the Israel navy has now intercepted almost all the boats as they neared Gaza. This has provoked worldwide protests. Jennifer Debs interviewed Nico Calabrese who joined the flotilla.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / PalestineIsrael has decided to continue its attacks on the Palestinian people and those fighting for a Free Palestine, by illegally seizing, in international waters, the boats participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, in which Thiago Ávila and Greta Thunberg are involved.
- News from around the world / Palestine, BrazilFrance finds itself in the grip of overlapping crises as Emmanuel Macron's government collapses and mass protests sweep the country. Following the ousting of Prime Minister François Bayrou in September, France operates without stable government whilst facing its most severe social unrest since the yellow vest movement.
- IVP609 - October 2025 / FranceActivists on the Gaza flotilla believe it could be attacked at any moment and are asking people to share the link to the live feed below to help protect the flotilla. And, of course, to be ready to protest if it is attacked.
- News from around the world / PalestineOur comrade Violetta Bock presents the situation in Germany and her work as a Member of Parliament for Die Linke, which consists of making a link between the working classes and the contesting of an increasingly unstable power. She spoke to Antoine Larrache.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / GermanyStatement of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, March 20, 1966
- Features / Fourth International, Indonesia, Historical events and figuresSixty years ago, on October 1, 1965 the Indonesian army set in motion its plans to seize power from president Sukarno and to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), one of the main forces supporting the president. In the article below, dated November 1965, Mandel criticized the political approach of the PKI in the preceding period.
- Features / Indonesia, Historical events and figuresPresident Donald Trump, breaking with U.S. norms, is using the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies, going after liberal and progressive foundations and NGOs, and sending more troops to another American city to intimidate protestors. He has fired Justice Department attorneys who are unwilling to put his orders above the law and replaced them with flunkeys who will carry out his demands. He has promised “retribution” to his high-level political opponents and is now meting it out. And he is also targeting the political left, saying he will designate Antifa, that is the anti-fascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization, though there is no antifa organization and no legal designation for domestic terrorism. To carry out his campaign against Antifa he is sending troops to Portland, Oregon.
- IVP608 - September 2025 / United States (USA)
