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For the last two years, President Donald Trump's Republican Party controlled not only the presidency, but also both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as many state governments.

The French trade union movement, and more particularly the trade unionism of social transformation, with which the CGT, the FSU and Solidaires explicitly identify, is today confronted with several important strategic questions. - IVP621 - October 2026 / F…

This is the most important defeat for the far right we have seen anywhere in the world in recent times, and its impact will be felt worldwide.

Antonio Moscato, a long-standing member and activist of our organisation since the 1950s, passed away on the night of 24 October.

“For eight years, Pedro Sánchez has survived practically everything: motions of no confidence, pandemics, wars, lawfare, media onslaughts, right-wing mobilisations, corruption scandals, electoral defeats, and an opposition that has spent years predicting…

On 17 October 2026, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France.

“Today, it's a race to see who can be the strongest against a Palestinian state.” - IVP621 - October 2026 / Palestine, Israel

A critical reading of climate and its social impacts. - Features / Ecology and the Environment, Argentina, Climate

On the interminable political news and discussion TV programmes here in Italy the pundits are all talking about ‘catching the virus' of the huge protests in the Spanish state and France.

“At present, it is impossible to predict how the movement will develop.

“That potential for instant destruction has become more imminent, with the most militarily powerful countries adding fuel to an already overheated arms race and engaging in wars with each other, indirectly if not directly.

“In his infamous United Nations speech a year ago, Trump denounced global heating as the “biggest scam in world history.”

The summer of 2026 broke all heat records.

An estimated 7 to 9 million people joined some 3,000 No Kings demonstrations across the United States on October 17 to encourage voters to vote and to defend the vote.

A housing encampment was set up in Rossio this Saturday, in response to rising rents, which put the prospect of housing out of reach for young people in Portugal. - IVP621 - October 2026 / Portugal, Youth and student movements, Public services

Paris calls?

Written for an Australian audience, Colin Long's reply to the Australian Greens leader David Shoebridge makes arguments useful for Ukraine solidarity activists everywhere. - IVP621 - October 2026 / Australia, Ukraine

[Bilbao, Spain, October 15, 2026] Hundreds of thousands have marched in Spain in recent weeks to stop evictions, in opposition to housing speculation, against rising rent, and to demand more housing.

The struggle for the rights of Kenyan workers at the French multinational digital services company is being organised from Nairobi to Paris. - IVP621 - October 2026 / France, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Kenya

“We did not fight against apartheid because we were Zulus or Xhosas or Sothos.

After a scorching and deadly summer for the working classes, the mobilizations for decent, free and democratic education that began in June are back in full force!

The 17th World Social Forum was held in Benin in early August.

The first round defeated the left.

“Socialism is the rule of the working class.

Perhaps paraphrasing Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, when they described the revolutionary process that swept through Europe at the end of the 1940s as a spectre, we could describe the counter-revolutionary cycle that is sweeping through Our A…

Labour leader Andy Burnham made his first leader's speech to Labour Party conference on 29 September 2026.

A month of elections gives this issue its spine, with the far right as the measure of every result. - IVP620 - September 2026

“The social tension that housing introduces into the lives of the majority has become political tension thanks to the successful intervention of the Tenants' Union, the eviction of Maricarmen as a foundational event and the pressure in the street.

Pedro Sánchez has announced that he is bringing forward the date of the elections, which will now take place on 29 November.

The notion of the Left contains a dual dimension.

The attempt to ostracise the AfD has failed. - Features / Germany, Far Right, Fascism

Donald Trump arguably won the 2024 presidential election because between 42 and 48 percent of the country's Latinos voted for him.

“Today, I believe that Morocco is experiencing a form of political insanity in the Einsteinian sense.

“AI, Anti-Capitalist Intelligence”, the third edition of Italy's Ecosocialist Summer University – organized by Sinistra Anticapitalista and the Livio Maitan Library – ended on Sunday 6 September 2026 with a well-attended debate on the alternative to capit…

Gippo Mukendi Ngandu, a member of the leadership of the Fourth International, spoke at the anti-imperialist conference NoToNATO to present the links between war and the climate crisis, and to propose the answers put forward in our Manifesto for an Ecosoci…

An international anti-imperialist peace conference took place on 4 July 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye, while the entire country was under relentless repression by the regime in the run-up to the NATO summit.

The policies pursued since 2022 have been among the most reactionary, racist, and repressive in modern Swedish history.

Secondary school pupils are taking action; the government is cracking down.

The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) and the anti-capitalist left have two gigantic challenges to face simultaneously in the coming Brazilian elections: to contribute to the broader struggle against the main Brazilian expression of global neo-fascism,

On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid.

Hundreds marched in three separate demonstrations to protest the mass murderers—President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian—speaking at the United Nations General Assembly held in New York last

IN AUSTIN, TEXAS an ICE agent shoots a food delivery driver after he was rammed and pulled over by an unmarked van.

Last June, a new European Pact on Migration and Asylum came into force.

AI or artificial intelligence systems may have the power to destroy human life say several AI experts and industry leaders.

Global warming is a health time bomb, of which deaths from heatwaves are merely the tip of the iceberg.

A crucial battle awaits us over the next three weeks.

While the Israeli elections have provoked a new racist and genocidal escalation, ethnic cleansing has continued in Gaza, Lebanon and especially in the West Bank.

The parliamentary elections held in early 2026 in Slovenia resulted in a narrow majority for the right, thereby enabling the formation of a radical conservative government.