The global order is currently grappling with a catastrophic escalation in the Middle East. Initiated without provocation by coordinated US-Israeli attacks on Iranian strategic targets on February 28, 2026, the conflict has rapidly evolved into a multi-front war.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / PhilippinesSenegal has entered a zone of strong turbulence. Audits of the west African country's economic situation show that the figures published by the former government led by Macky Sall were false.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / SenegalIn the aftermath of January 2026's crackdown, voices within and close to the Islamic Republic renewed calls for Iran to complete a nuclear deterrent, claiming the bomb would have prevented the current existential crisis. Houshang Sepehr, exiled Iranian Marxist and editor of Solidarité Socialiste avec les Travailleurs en Iran, challenges this on structural grounds. Drawing on the cases of India, Pakistan, and North Korea, he argues that nuclear deterrence only functions within security architectures backed by a great power patron --- a guarantee Iran never had. Neither Russia nor China was willing to absorb the risks of a nuclearised Islamic Republic contesting US hegemony. The bomb, he concludes, would have deepened Iran's isolation rather than protecting it.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / IranThe first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican' right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
- News from around the world / FranceAs the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran goes into its third week, the people of the United States are still figuring out what they think about the conflict. Since the war began, most polls show a majority of Americans disapprove of the war, something unseen in modern American history. A majority of Americans approved of World War II, the Korean War, and initially of the Vietnam War. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2000—the American government, anxious for revenge—was backed by huge majorities when it made war on Afghanistan in 2001. When in 2003 the George W. Bush administration wanted to make war on Iraq, it fabricated false evidence that Saddam Hussein had nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction, and, bamboozled by Bush, nearly three-quarters of the American people supported the war.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA)The first round of the French local elections will take place on Sunday 15 March, the second on 22 March. There is a real possibility that the “traditional” right, which is increasingly radicalizing in a far right direction, will win in Paris, under Socialist Party government since 1995, and that the Rassemblement National could win in France's second, and very multi-racial, city, Marseilles.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / France, Far Right“It's the workers of the hospital that know best how to run it. Of course, there are different ideas but we have the experience of working together. That's where the health team comes together to figure out how best to care for the patient and involve the family in a discussion.”
- Feminism / United States (USA), Women, Argentina, Public services“This landmark ruling highlights the links between institutional politics, militias and economic interests in Rio de Janeiro.”
- IVP614 - March 2026 / Brazil, Women, Far Right, Racism and IslamophobiaThe upcoming mass No Kings! demonstrations planned for March 28 and ambitious plans for May Day mobilizations point to the growing convergence of anti-Trump forces. This convergence takes place against the backdrop of Trumps' destructive assault on democratic rights in the US and the sovereignty of nations abroad, most recently his reckless aerial attack on Iran, and plummeting approval ratings in the polls.
- IVP614 - March 2026 / United States (USA), Protest movements“"Either their profits or our lives": the slogan is everywhere.”
- IVP614 - March 2026 / Greece, Protest movementsAnother workplace death at the former Ilva steel plant in Taranto while production languishes and Minister Urso fails to act. Workers mobilise. Solidarity from Sinistra Anticapitalista
- IVP614 - March 2026 / Italy, Trade unions/workplace organizingAll Sides Will Make the People Pay
- IVP614 - March 2026The majority of the party votes to maintain its autonomy and a commitment to social change.
- News from around the world / Brazil
