“Daher provides an update on the worrying developments under Ahmad al-Chareh's new government. He also highlights the opportunities opening up for working people and social movements, provided they prove capable of resisting sectarianism and ethnic discrimination.”

António José Seguro was elected President of the Republic of Portugal on Sunday with 67% of the vote, comfortably beating the neo-fascist candidate he faced in the second round, André Ventura (33%).

The dismissal of General Zhang Youxia was officially announced on January 24. This is another step in the purges that have been taking place within the Chinese army's general staff. Zhang was considered “untouchable” given his supposed closeness to Xi Jinping. As for the Central Military Commission (CMC), it is now a hollow shell, having lost five of its seven members. Xi continues to clear the field around him, contrary to any form of collegiality.

“Now things have changed. Republicans have criticized his immigrant deportation policies, his racist posts, and his threat to take over the election process. At the same time support for Trump is declining as shown in polls.”

Gus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary

“To tell the truth, however painful it may be, there are no possibilities at this time for unified mobilisations that demonstrate anti-imperialist national unity. Maduro's regime has led us to this disaster.”

The election marks a new phase in the junta's attempt to legitimise repression at home while stabilising its authority across borders.

For two months, Greek peasants mobilized with a partial blockade of major roads. While this type of movement has occurred before, this one is remarkable for its duration, the number of participants, its geographical scope, and also the way it was organized.

“There is therefore little doubt that the present compromise has not resolved the conflict but has instead shifted it from a military to a political phase. This new phase will involve a political struggle that continues the war by other means, just as war itself is a continuation of politics by other means, as the maxim goes.”

“The strong turnout at this demonstration goes beyond the outrage caused by Trump. It also reflects the fact that more and more people are rebelling against the capitalist economic and social system.”

President Donald Trump continues ICE raids, arrests of journalists, and seizing election records, as the public turns against him. All of this is about the mid-term election in November, which Republicans could lose.

This document was adopted by a meeting of the United Secretariat of the Fourth lntematlonal (FI) in 1992. It is the product of months of discussion within that world organization and an extensive pro-cess of rewriting and revision from an original draft proposed before the FI's World Congress in 1991.

“I was especially interested in understanding the specific nature of working-class volunteerism, a topic that is rarely discussed. ”

Today, thousands of Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel – and one of those who spent the longest time behind bars is Abu Haniesh, who has become a symbol of the struggle to which he has devoted his entire life.

Recent developments in northern Syria – particularly east of the Euphrates – carry grave implications for both the Kurdish condition and the broader Syrian situation. Let us examine these implications, beginning with the Kurdish issue.

Despite a ceasefire between al-Sharaa's government & SDF, the president is not providing enough assurances that Syrian Kurds are protected.

In less than two weeks, the Islamic Republic repeated—on a vast and horrifying scale—all the crimes it has committed over forty-seven years of bloody rule. As many had feared, “the government filled the prisons and cemeteries with protesters.”
By cutting off all means of communication—from the internet to text messages and phone lines—the authorities carried out a massacre in total silence. They labeled the victims “rioters” and “enemies” and opened the way for the continuation of an (…)

Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved the way for accelerated capitalist development, imposed under imperialist pressure, which profoundly reconfigured class relations in the region.

Over the past year, Serbia has been swept by a mobilization—primarily student-led—of unprecedented scale since the fall of Milošević. The movement challenges the lack of democracy, corruption, and authoritarian practices of the current regime.

“In the face of threats to press freedom in Serbia, and in particular state pressure, a coalition has been created to demand and act for independent information. Press freedom in Serbia is in serious decline: threats, harassment and attacks are frequent, and institutional protection is increasingly unreliable. ”