The world of yesterday at the abyss: How can a solidary vision be built that does not side with one imperialist camp or another, but rather relies on liberation from below? A conversation with British-Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov.
- Features / Syria, Ukraine“Solidarity is not a slogan. It is a material stance. It means choosing a side when no perfect options exist. And today, choosing means standing with those who resist, with those who do not surrender, with those who try to defend their lives and their freedom even within a terrible context.”
- Features / Ukraine, FeaturesAhead of May Day 2022, two months after Russia's full-scale attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian trade unionists called for solidarity with the invaded country. Artem Tidva, a Ukrainian left-winger and labour activist, addressed international unions calling for actions to help stop the Russian war machine.
In Sweden, such action was already underway. In March 2022, Swedish dockers had begun a blockade of Russian ships. This decision, supported by a nationwide vote among the Swedish Dockworkers' (…)
Last night, the world once again witnessed Israel's absolute impunity. The Israeli army carried out a raid in international waters, intercepting and rendering several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) inoperable. This assault took place off the coast of Crete – nearly 1,000 km from Gaza!
- News from around the world / Palestine, IsraelA strike of unprecedented magnitude is shaking the main hospital in the Comoros. The issue: the fight for equal pay, regardless of status.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Public services , Comoros“But such individual acts of violence—that almost always hurt innocents—cannot change the system and they threaten to provoke repression against all of us working to construct a better world.”
- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)There are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / Algeria“I fired them like dogs.” This is the formula that US president Donald Trump, with the elegance we know him for, used to sum up his battle with the American company Anthropic. He will have to wait a little longer before bragging: in a first order issued on 27 March 2026, the court suspended the blacklisting of the artificial intelligence (AI) giant, whose tools can therefore still be used by administrations, contrary to the president's wishes. But the tug-of-war is not over, and we must take the measure of what is at stake: the United States' use of AI in the service of a regime of terror.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA)Amandla! Interviewed Nqobile Ndima, an activist in the struggle for water in Phumlamqashi informal settlement near the Lenasia suburb, in the provice of Gauteng.
- IVP615 - April 2026 / South Africa, Public servicesMainstream 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 movements
