Europe

John Mullen — France Insoumise is now ten years old, but in-depth Marxist writings on its nature and prospects have been very few. This article aims to show what is specific about it, and give a view on how revolutionaries should engage with the movement.

Phil Hearse — With the foundation of Your Party and Zack Polanski's victory in the Greens’ leadership election, combined with the surge of support for Reform UK, the importance of elections in combating fascism and the hard right comes to the fore.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Like 85 years ago, under the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Communism is illegal in Czechia.

Daria Saburova looks at how volunteer labor has become a site of gender and class tensions, and the specific features of class relations in contemporary Ukraine.

Eric Toussaint — US policy towards Europe has undergone a transformation under Trump, reflecting a desire for direct intervention in favour of far-right and neo-fascist parties or governments.

Oleksandr Kyselov — Ukrainian leftists hope for an end to the war, but remain sceptical of the “peace deal” on offer.

Simon Hannah & Terry Conway — Your Party's founding conference was a battleground between unelected bureaucrats and the left, but in the end it has produced a new socialist and working-class party.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Reading Trump’s peace plan through Lenin’s method allows us to keep two planes in view at once: inter-imperialist rivalry and Ukraine’s national liberation struggle against an oppressor.

John Mullen — The situation in France opens up important questions for left activists, such as the potential and limits of left reformism, the role of trade union leaders, and the tasks of Marxist activists.

Irish ecosocialist activist Paul Murphy explains why Catherine Connolly’s campaign was so successful.

Maria Luisa Guevara explores the lessons of Romania’s 2010 turbo-austerity program, and the resistance to it, as the country undergoes another austerity wave.

Walden Bello interviews various leaders of La France Insoumise.