“In the meantime every day lost is a day in which the profits of Big Pharma are costing countless lives especially in the Global South, as this video from the International Transport Workers Federation shows. And in that context the likelihood for more variants of concern to develop and spread reminds us that no one is safe until everyone is safe.”

“If we want to have an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free from fundamentalists and any foreign interventions.”

“At the same time, a strong battle must be waged against the policies of the capitalists, against the economic choices of the Draghi government and of the bosses, who are the other enemies to be fought along with the fascists.”

Joint appeal for the demonstration commemorating the repression of a peaceful protest demonstration by Algerians protesting against a curfew for them at 8.30pm. Police brutality was extreme and hundreds were killed and thrown in the Seine.

“The sectarian nature of the state, accompanied by the promotion of neoliberal policies, is an obstacle to the rise of a working-class alternative from below, capable of challenging the ruling bourgeois sectarian parties. In this perspective, the ruling parties will use the next elections as a way to try to regain some legitimacy, both locally and internationally.”

“But we can already affirm that we will not be intimidated by this kind of manoeuvre, we will not stop denouncing police crimes and we will continue to stand by the victims and their relatives in the struggle for justice and truth.”

“We on the left have a big job ahead, to explain the existence of multiple imperial powers and to build a movement to resist U.S. imperialism, while also opposing Russia and China.”

In Sri Lanka, the far-right government of Mahinda Rajapaksa represses without restraint: Tamils, Muslims, trade unionists, students fighting against the privatization of colleges and so on. Stan Miller spoke to Samantha Rajapaksa, a Sri Lankan far-left activist in exile in France.

Communique from Sinistra Anticapitalista (Anticapitalist Left), 9 October 2021.

“[I]t is the only way to develop the political and social forces that will give a basis to new institutions, built in struggle and meeting the expectations of the street.”

“The U.S. war machine rains death and destruction everywhere its economic and political interests are challenged. Its corporate media monopoly operates to burnish or prettify and deflect capitalism's horrors, or to ignore or justify them outright.”

“Berliners' struggle for the socialization of the big real estate groups has only just begun, but it is already rich in lessons for us.”

“A space exists to the left of the social liberal PD for a class struggle movement with an electoral impact. However it is difficult to see this growing unless the social movements and trade union struggles reach a different level.”

Since the dawn of capitalism the logic of collective commons has been systematically challenged by the capitalist class through commodification and private appropriation of wealth.

“Mandel's main fault, several speakers at the commemorative meeting claimed, was over-optimism. But he left us with writing on the history and economic grounding of capitalism, analyses of bureaucracy and alienation, and an account of the underlying structural preconditions for the world we live in today.”

The big winner in Russia's recent election was the Communist Party, which jumped to almost 20 percent support. The party is today being transformed by a new wave of democratic socialist activists opposed to Vladimir Putin's rule.

On October 2, in cities small and large, people marched and rallied for reproductive rights with many home-made, creative and funny signs. Solidarity members were there to express our support for the broad range of reproductive rights including but going well beyond the right to access abortion care.

Mimmo Lucano was mayor of Riace, a small town in Calabria in the South of Italy. He used his leadership to welcome migrants and asylum seekers to his town.

Rob Marsden reviews the impact of the recent Extinction Rebellion mobilisation in London.

A new Introduction by longtime comrade John McAnulty to D.R. O'Connor Lysaght's 1970 book The Republic of Ireland made available online following his recent death.