The challenge remains to build a people’s climate movement strong enough to challenge the power of fossil fuel capitalism and link up with other social movements to fight for an ecosocialist future.

Reinaldo Iturriza looks at the realignment of forces following the Barbados agreement and the lack of representation of the disaffiliated popular masses in Venezuela.

Alex de Jong — That the right-wing won the recent Dutch elections was no surprise. What was surprising was how decisive the share of the far-right was in the overall right-wing victory.

Khagendra Prasai — Ostensibly Communist parties govern the Himalayan republic, but socialism remains a long way off.

Statements by New Bloom (Taiwan), Jamhoor (Pakistan), the Socialist Party of Malaysia, Partido Lakas ng Masa (the Philippines), the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the Japanese Communist Party, the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction), a collective of anonymous Tibetans and Hongkongers, and a group of Revolutionary Communists in China.

Choo Chon Kai outlines his views on rising US-China tensions, the struggle for peace in Southeast Asia and challenges for building solidarity amid an increasingly multipolar world.

Left and progressive Middle Eastern and Australian organisations have released a statement supporting the right of the Palestinian people to resist ongoing dispossession, occupation and oppression by the settler colonial state of Israel.

In response to the genocidal war being waged on the people of Palestine, La Via Campesina reiterates its steadfast solidarity with the peasants, fisherfolk and working families of Palestine.

Leftists in Ukraine are insisting on the urgent need to build solidarity without exception among oppressed peoples.

Rohini Hensman — On October 7, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by Israel are many times larger. What can ensure peace in Palestine?

Mike Treen — Working people must fight for a country where full employment and generous welfare systems for the unemployed are important protections for workers.

The Left Bloc, France Unbowed, Podemos, Sweden's Left Party, Finland's Left Alliance and Red Green Alliance take a joint stand in defense of solidarity, the climate, justice and peace.