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Brazil's 'Capitol Hill riots’: Confront the fascists, without truce or amnesty

Israel Dutra & Roberto Robaina - We will take to the street demonstrations, raising the flag that there be no forgiveness for those responsible of genocide and coup-plotters. Without amnesty and with the maximum democratic mobilization.
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Imperialism and the invasion of Ukraine

Sam Wainwright - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had profound consequences for world and domestic politics that we need to grapple with if we are to chart a way forward.
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The changing shapes of imperialism after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine

Peter Drucker - Today, as in Lenin’s time, Marxists need to be champions of self-determination. At the same time, today as a century ago, our defense of self-determination needs to be informed by an understanding that no imperialist power can be counted on as an ally.
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Supporting Ukraine's right to self-determination: The historical example of ‘poor little Belgium’

Richard Fidler - Historical analogies can indeed be useful in assessing the issues posed in contemporary events, provided of course that careful attention is paid to the particular circumstances and to what degree the differing situations and protagonists are comparable.
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Ukraine, Russia, imperialism and national self-determination

Renfrey Clarke - The war in Ukraine has presented left-wing theorists and commentators with a difficult analytical challenge. How are we to resolve this conundrum? As well as needing to answer the question of where Russia stands within the capitalist world-system we also need to decide how the right to national self-determination plays out within this context.
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Against multipolar imperialism: Toward socialist multipolarity

Promise Li - What characterizes this new multipolar order and the nature of inter-capitalist competition? As a whole, this emerging multipolar world of bourgeois states does not create better conditions to challenge global imperialism, but merely preserves and even heightens these capitalist dynamics.
François Sabado

Split in the New Anticapitalist Party (France): 'A change of epoch for the revolutionary left'

In December 2022, the New Anticapitalist Party’s (NPA) congress ended in a split between two roughly equivalent forces. While the future of the NPA tendency animated by former militants of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) is uncertain, François Sabado looks back on this crisis and takes stock of this attempt to unite the anti-capitalists.
Protest in front of a government building in Bucharest (in 2017). Source: Wikipedia

Calling fascism by its name: The rise of the radical right and organizing leftist resistance in Romania

Courrier des Balkans, Adina Marincea & Veda Popovici - What we are witnessing now, since Alliance for Romanian Unity entered Parliament in 2020, is a historical moment: this is the first party that revives the interwar fascist legacy and has managed to establish itself as a parliamentary party.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: Draft resolution on perspectives, orientation and tasks of anti-fascist resistance

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - The Narendra Modi government has now been in power for more than eight years. If the first term of the Modi government was an early warning about the shape of things to come, the second term has been a period of rapid escalation of a concerted multi-pronged offensive.
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Did Lenin create Ukraine? On the right of nations to self-determination and Marxism

Grusha Gilaeva analyzes the positions of Marx and Lenin on the national question and explains why the left movement must support the anti-colonial struggle of Ukraine
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Pele leaves us but his magic will never die

Dave Kellaway reflects on Pele’s art and football’s role in the capitalist spectacle.
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United States: Two barrels aim at African People's Socialist Party

Don Fitz - With new FBI and Department of Justice attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP).