Education workers, popular educators and students from Latin America and from around the world gathered from 11-14 November 2024, in the facilities of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to proclaim our irreducible will in defence of public, free, popular, scientific, secular, democratic, feminist, anti-racist, ecological and social reality transforming education.

The need for a left-wing political response as an extension of the social struggles is beginning to take on a unitary dimension in Greece. The disappearance of a ‘Pasokified' Syriza, which led to its implosion, is clarifying the landscape.

The elections in Botswana, a southern African country of 2.6 million inhabitants situated above South Africa, took place on 30 October. Unexpectedly, the left-wing opposition won a landslide victory, forcing a change of government unseen since the country's independence in 1966. The electoral victory of the left has raised hopes of a break with the inegalitarian policies that have prevailed since independence.

Faced with the neo-fascist danger represented by the FN/RN (National Front/Nationally Rally), the result of the second round of the early legislative elections has provided a respite. An essential respite since it avoids handing over the levers of the state to them, but it does not eliminate the fundamental processes that were expressed in the European and legislative elections.

In the heart of a war-torn nation, Ukraine's care workers are showing extraordinary resilience and unity in some of the most difficult conditions imaginable. Through their union Be Like Nina (BLN), these healthcare heroes are organizing under challenging circumstances not just to protect their livelihoods and improve their jobs but also to strengthen a healthcare system stretched to its limits.

Joseph Daher, author of a recent book, Palestine and Marxism, writes that amid drawn-out suffering in Palestine and Lebanon, we should not despair. He argues that resistance from below against our own complicit states offers a way forward.

“Brazilian civil society, social movements and trade unions are campaigning in solidarity with the PepsiCo strike.”

The Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.

This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, tracing its evolution through defeat, exile, and diaspora, while showcasing the enduring relevance of its revolutionary ideals through memoirs, theoretical writings, and historical analyses; this extract is taken from the introduction by Gregor Benton.

Could the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon be a new “divine victory”? That was how the agreement that ended the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 was characterized by Hezbollah. Then, the party displayed that phrase on huge billboards featuring a picture of its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, in a clear play on words, as the slogan could be read as both a victory attributed to God and a victory led by Nasrallah, whose name in Arabic means “God's victory”.

Aotearoa New Zealand's parliament was brought to a halt on November 14 during the first reading of a controversial and divisive bill that aims to undermine the rights of Māori people.

How does the left in France confront the global "right-wing" turn? Can leftist organizations supporting Ukraine develop a common strategy? Researcher and longtime activist Catherine Samary discusses the role of the left in today's French politics for Posle Media.

Senator Bernie Sanders introduced three resolutions in the Senate last week to stop U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. The resolutions to end U.S. support for Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza all received between 18 and 19 votes from Democrats and none from Republicans.

Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement—C-FAM is an emerging movement of feminist and anti-war/peace activists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Unified in our defiance, C-FAM originated from a powerful solidarity action to confront the greenwashing practices at COP29 taking place in Azerbaijan on November 2024, one of the largest events in our region in recent times. Our movement embodies the principles of feminism, anti-militarism, anti-war, anti-authoritarianism, anti-nationalism, and anti-capitalism, opposing oppressive systems that perpetuate inequality and violence.

The level of unemployment in South Africa is second to no other country in the world. Everyone recognises that it's a problem, with various polls suggesting that it's the main concern for people in the country. The problem is so bad that it is described by some as a virus. The symptoms are the widespread desperation of the majority of people in the country and deepening social tensions.

“Comics and journalists have referred to the new cabinet as “Trump's clown car.” The clowns, however are not funny; they're frightening.”

In the months before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's uneasy visit to Beijing last year, the CEOs of J.P. Morgan, Starbucks, Apple, General Motors, and Tesla had amiable meetings with former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Reaffirming what Xi Jinping and other Chinese ministers have declared on an annual basis, Qin assured Elon Musk that China “remain[s] committed to fostering a better market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment.” [1]

Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (which calls into question even the future of the UN) is found in the genocidal war against Gaza (Awad, 2024), to which are currently added around 56 wars across the planet.

Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ignited violence in Amsterdam, but the far-right is victimising them to repress Palestine solidarity, writes Alex de Jong.

The clear-cut election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America is a major development in the process of right-wing and extreme right-wing extremism underway in global capitalism. At a time when neoliberalism has deepened abysmal social inequalities that hit women and racialised people the hardest; at a time when the ruling classes are wallowing more and more in an opulence whose legal and illegal sources are so mixed that they can no longer be distinguished; at a time when the climate catastrophe and the collapse of biodiversity caused by the race to make a profit from fossil capital are hitting millions of poor people hard and threatening to take them with them; at a time when the race for hegemony is increasingly taking on the hideous face of neo-colonial supremacism and the savage appropriation of wealth at the cost of monstrous massacres.

‘There was no such thing as Palestinians… They did not exist.' This statement by Golda Meir in 1969 is the essence of what, fifty years later, would lead to the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Despite live media coverage by its victims and a solidarity movement organised in many countries, it has continued unabated for a year.