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For revolutionaries, the period must be defined by the international fight against the far right

Thomas Hummel — The rise of the global far right defines our historical moment. Revolutionary socialists must revive the strategy of the united front to challenge this new authoritarianism.
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Support Ukrainian resistance — not monstrous rearmament plans

Simon Pirani — European powers have decided on long-term rearmament programmes. The left must not become cheerleaders for these.
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Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc, Portugal): Europe in the Trump-Putin axis trap

Bloco de Esquerda — There are several imperialisms in the global system. But none of them will play a progressive role because all act according to the interests of their capitalist elites.
US President Donald Trump dances on stage after speaking at a campaign rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville. Source: AAP

This changes everything: The threat of Trumpism for South Africa

Amandla! Collective — The second coming of Trump has started to reconfigure the international political architecture that emerged after World War II. This has profound implications for countries both in the global North and South.
Protestors burn a Frelimo flag. Shorn of its former radicalism, Frelimo was embroiled in one corruption scandal after another. But its continued control of the Electoral Commission has ensured that the provinces and the capital, Maputo, would stay in its hands.

The Mozambican people enter the political realm

Rehad Desai — A potted history of Mozambique’s ruling party is required to help fully grasp why the country is unravelling, creating an uprising of discontent.
Police barricade during a demonstration on the corner of Eduardo Mondlane and Amílcar Cabral avenues in Maputo, two of the main leaders of former Portuguese African colonies´ independence. November 7th, 2024. Image © Marilio Wane.

The crisis of African liberators

Marílio Wane — As Mozambique nears 50 years of independence, its ruling party clings to power amid political turmoil, contested elections, and growing public discontent. Is this the beginning of a new struggle for liberation?
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West African juntas are undermining human rights

Salvador Ousmane paints a damning picture of the African military juntas that came to power in West Africa in recent years, but sees hope in the resilience of trade union activism, which continues to persist despite repressive conditions.
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Turkey and the neofascist contagion

Gilbert Achcar — The events unfolding in Turkey since last Wednesday are extremely serious: they constitute a new and very dangerous step in the country’s slide towards the suffocation of democracy.
Which way arrows

Growth or degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy

Ståle Holgersen — Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide.
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On revolutionary strategy: From the early Comintern to Daniel Bensaïd

In this chapter from his forthcoming book, John Riddell offers a lucid presentation of the Comintern’s strategic orientation and a serious-minded engagement with Daniel Bensaïd thinking on such questions.
A Palestinian woman sits on the ruins of her house that was destroyed by the Israeli military in Masafer Yatta, January 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

‘No Other Land’: The paradoxes of an Oscar win in a West Bank under siege

Award-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ has been criticized for normalizing the Occupation and violating BDS guidelines, writes Anna Lippman.
RLC statement on transitional constitution

Revolutionary Left Current: Syria at a crossroads — Towards freedom or tyranny

Revolutionary Left Current — The interim constitutional declaration has entrenched the very opposite of the goals and roots of the Syrian revolution.