france student and youth protests

France: ‘The leadership of the movement belongs to the students themselves’

Stan Miller looks at the current youth uprising in France and the role being played by trade unions and the revolutionary left.
Police corralling demonstrators pictured during a demonstration in the centre of Brussels against budget cuts (24 October 24)

Belgium’s student protests against austerity

Bruno Bauwens on student protests against education cuts and the Belgian government’s collapse.
COP31

COP31: Beyond the negotiating rooms — Organising to adapt and survive

As UN climate negotiations continue to be stalled by petrostates and corporate interests, climate and social justice movements must reorient toward adaptation and building community resilience, writes Brian Ashley.
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The tasks for DSA after the blue wave (plus Socialism wins in a purple district)

The US midterm elections were a major blow to the far right. Now it’s up to democratic socialists to make the most of it, argues the Bread & Roses caucus. Plus Geovanny Tolentino and Jordan Millett look at how socialists in Salem, Oregon won by embracing the rose.
After the blue tsunami Tempest graphic

After the blue tsunami: Political openings, material gains and a winning socialist strategy

The Tempest National Committee argues that Trump’s huge defeat in the US midterm elections creates an important opening, but one that will not be met by a strategy centred on electoral politics within the Democratic Party.
Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya (Shambhuji): Revolutionary Extraordinaire

Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya (Shambhuji): Revolutionary extraordinaire

Comrade Swadesh Bhattacharya, the last member of the historic three-member Central Committee founded on the second martyrdom anniversary of Comrade Charu Mazumdar, is no more, writes Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.
March and March protest in South Africa

Two blue waves upend ruling parties: US flows left, South Africa drifts right

Two recent elections generated opposite ideological results: while the Democrat’s blue tsunami saw it take over US Congress, South Africans voted in rising numbers for blue-led centre-right and far-right xenophobes, writes Patrick Bond.
Capitalism is over

Reform or revolution? Why the distinction still matters

Academic Marxism’s retreat from revolutionary politics does not diminish its necessity, argues Raju J Das.
Candidate of the Students' List celebrate on stage along with staff members after polls closed in the parliamentary election in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026

Lessons of the Serbian revolution

Dmitry Pozhidaev outlines five lessons from Serbia’s Student List electoral breakthrough after two years of mass protests — and how this could be turned into lasting social change.
Data centre

Mobilising against two existential threats

By targeting data centres, argues Walden Bello, we are challenging two existential threats to the planet and humanity: climate change and AI.
AOC at anti-Amazon rally

AOC 2028: A historic opportunity to build the socialist movement

Bread and Roses voted at its 2026 convention to join efforts encouraging AOC to run for President. Elliot Lewis and James Hernández why.
On October 18, over half the population of the small town of Paudalho, Pernambuco came out to the streets to show support for Lula, in a scenario underway in hundreds of towns and cities across Brazil that day

Turn Lula’s victory into a new cycle of democracy, rights, sovereignty and social justice

The people built this victory with courage, hope and an extraordinary ability to mobilize, writes the Workers’ Party of Brazil.