“Nor can we expect to see Labor take serious action to deal with climate change. Labor is committed to the fossil fuel industries and its carbon emissions targets are a joke.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Australia

“The May Day demonstrations illustrated the political and social tensions that are building up. On the one hand, a rally in support of the government around the CUT and the coalition parties, on the other, a left-wing opposition with a dissident class struggle trade union pole and social movements.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Chile

“Despite their unfulfilled promise, the Gary convention — its debates and written program — and the later formation of NBIPP remain important events to study and learn from.” - IV568 - May 2022 / United States (USA), Anti-racism and Islamophobia

Why the conflict in Ukraine is a disaster for the poor of this planet. - IV568 - May 2022 / Economy, Ukraine

Tempest contributors Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward. - IV568 - May 2022 / United States (USA), Covid-19 Pandemic

Since the year 2000, government-led women's policies have been institutionalized rapidly in South Korea. But the results of the policies were further deterioration of the living environments of most women such as low-wage and unstable working conditions and double duty imposed on women as wage and domestic workers. - IV568 - May 2022 / Women, South Korea

“‘Worker, you don't need a boss!' A combativity and a call to unity that are just waiting to be developed.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Greece

“In the beginning of the Twentieth century, the international left was much clearer about how to combine opposition to all imperialisms with recognition of the right of oppressed nations to self-determination.” - Ukraine / United States (USA), Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“They [Ukrainians] alone should decide whether to carry on fighting or accept whatever compromise is put on the table.” - Ukraine / United States (USA), Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“Internationalist feminist politics must take as its starting point the voices of the people concerned. Any feminist politics that is done without these voices will ultimately be done against them, and will thus be detrimental to the construction of global feminist solidarity.” - Ukraine / Russia, Women, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“It is no longer sustainable to reject and criminalize exiles according to their origin, nor to let people – women and LGBTIQ+ people above all – suffer the violence of the migration route.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Migration, Switzerland

What a time of powerful conflicting emotions in the United States last week as we dealt with COVID, abortion rights, and a white nationalist's mass murder. - IV568 - May 2022 / United States (USA), Women, Far Right, Covid-19 Pandemic

“The Ethiopian government is proposing national conciliation after more than 18 months of a war that has torn the country apart. While the country is experiencing a precarious calm, important issues remain unresolved.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Ethiopia

“We talk a lot in the labour movement about international solidarity and mutual aid. If any of that is real and sincere, we need to act on it now. The Ukrainian left is in a life or death struggle.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Ukraine

Right now, our international solidarity must be based on the payment of reparations to benefit Ukraine. […] It is also important to clarify that, first and foremost, reparations should be paid by the rich: officials, the nomenklatura, oligarchs, businessmen, etc. - IV568 - May 2022 / Russia, Women, Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements

“But, while the international press focuses precisely on the Russian oligarchs, there is no reason for the CADTM to consider that the Ukrainian oligarchs are allies of the Ukrainian people. The class struggle during the war continues.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Ukraine, Debt

“So, the limited but real risk that the left will become the main opposition to Macron and could even deprive him of a majority really frightens the presidential majority.” - IV568 - May 2022 / France

In the aftermath of its invasion of Ukraine, Ilya Budraitskis describes Russia as evolving to a new form of fascism. What had been a “managed democracy” with limited personal freedoms, has become a society and polity which requires unequivocal acceptance of the Ukraine invasion and treats any sign of deviation as treason. The article first appeared in German

“These spectacular shows of force by the Hindu far right are a way of conditioning the Indian population to accept the bigger massacres still in preparation.” - IV568 - May 2022 / India, Far Right

“But the only effective way to fight back is to continue mass actions and to make them more powerful.” - IV568 - May 2022 / United States (USA), Women

“The political polarization of recent weeks raises questions that go beyond the June deadline, in the continuation of the social struggles of recent years.” - IV568 - May 2022 / France

“Indeed, faced with the rise of the far right and the fascist danger, against the new five-year mandate of Macron and his henchmen to organize anti-social and authoritarian attacks, we want a left-wing majority for radical change – or at least as many elected members as possible – in the National Assembly. We therefore believe that a unitive dynamic would be

“We will not accept a Supreme Court or its decisions that violate our human rights.” - News from around the world / United States (USA), Women

“The war highlights the patriarchy we live in from all the sides. ” - Feminism / Russia, Women, Ukraine

Two months ago, when I wrote “A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv,” I hoped that the shock of the Russian invasion and the voices of the Ukrainian left would push Western leftists to reconsider their approach. Unfortunately, too many of them have failed to do so. In their analyses of the war, Ukrainians are just victims in need of humanitarian aid, not subjects

The Executive Bureau of the Fourth International has issued two statements on Ukraine. One before the invasion, on 30 January 2022, entitled "Against NATO and Russian military escalation in Eastern Europe”; and another one after the start of the invasion, on 1 March 2022, entitled "No to Putin's invasion of Ukraine! Support the Ukrainian resistance! Solidarity

This Declaration of the Tendency for a Revolutionary International (TRI), public tendency of the FI (ex-USec) was issued on Monday, 14 March 2022. - Ukraine / Ukraine, Ukraine debate

The ongoing lockdown in Shanghai and the consequences of a zero Covid policy under despotic rule. - IV568 - May 2022 / China, Covid-19 Pandemic

For all the anticipation of another uprising, Palestinians have yet to recover from the last one — because Israeli violence never stopped. - IV568 - May 2022 / Palestine, Israel

“The people are demanding that the community take full responsibility for an essential public service. If free transport is not an end in itself, it represents a strong signal.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Youth and student movements, Public services , Climate, Switzerland

“Once again, it is the Chadian people who will pay the price for the realpolitik imposed by France's military considerations.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Chad

“Many Swedes are still firmly against a NATO membership, but I think big sections of Swedish citizenry are simply trying to educate themselves more on the pros and cons regarding NATO.” - IV568 - May 2022 / Sweden, NATO

“One thing is certain: employers and union busting endanger individual health, human rights and democracy. It is important to publicly denounce these practices of company management.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Germany, Trade unions/workplace organizing

“A "nation" that does not guarantee the fundamental rights and only ruins the lives of oppressed people is not the place to live.” - IV567 - April 2022 / South Korea

“Beyond their destabilizing nature, such changes weaken the possibility of a collective organization of employees.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Switzerland

“With or without the Russians, the generals have failed to inflict a defeat on the social movement.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Sudan

“Today, all Russians feel that all our culture and all the achievements of our civilization are collapsing. Everything is falling apart. Because of Putin's aggression! ” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia

This statement was issued by the NPA at 9.30pm on Sunday 24 April 2022. - News from around the world / France

“[T]his kind of process can be set in motion without fascist forces being in power; this is the way we analyse what has been happening in France for the last few years, notably with Macronism, an authoritarianism of capital that has systematically shifted to the terrain of reactionaries.” - IV567 - April 2022 / France, Far Right

Despite a House investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection and criminal investigations in several states, former president Donald Trump remains the leader of the Republican Party and a powerful influence on its politics. - IV567 - April 2022 / United States (USA)

“For Bolsonaro, it is good that children work.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Brazil

This devastating report on the terrible floods in Durban indicts the total failure of the South African government to prepare for an entirely predictable and predicted disaster. But this report has huge international relevance because these floods are precisely one of the forms climate change is taking in many parts of the world and the criminal negligence

Can we really say to Ukrainians: for your own good we are going to turn a deaf ear to your pleas for the means of defending yourselves? - Ukraine / Ukraine, Ukraine debate

In a recent article in Jacobin, “What the Left's Critics Ignore About Military Solutions to Ukraine,” Branko Marcetic argues that the left should oppose Western military aid to Ukraine. Marcetic condemns the Russian invasion and believes the Ukrainians have a right to defend themselves, but he insists they should not get arms from the United States or its

I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar (2012) as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade of his life. But as soon as we met, what drew me towards Daniel was not simply his immense personal qualities—his strength of character, warmth and

There is a common narrative in the West, which corresponds to the Kremlin's narrative, that the Russian government may be tyrannical but it is supported by the majority of Russian people, and the dissident minority, while brave, has no ability to change society. This fits the Vladimir Putin regime's view of itself as the inheritor of a thousand-year-old state.

Against the Current advisory editor Peter Drucker, the author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism, is one of a handful of scholars who have in recent years developed the field of queer Marxism. Another pioneer of queer Marxism, Kevin Floyd, died tragically in 2019. This year the Marxist Literary Group honored Kevin Floyd's legacy with a special

I began this paper as a contribution to discussions in the Internationalism from Below Group, whose members' criticisms helped to improve it. I finished it with help from the editors of New Politics. Special thanks to Steve Shalom for his comments. I alone, however, am responsible for this version of the essay. - Features / China, Nicaragua, Features, Imperialism

It is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for progressive forces to have a clear view on the character of the powers involved, which in turn requires a concrete

“From the 1970s until her death, Ibarra remained active in all of the causes of Mexico's working people and the oppressed whether as a private person or after 2006 as a Senator.” - In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Mexico

The disastrous military campaign, unprecedented Western sanctions and the ensuing economic crisis tested the resilience of the Russian regime. Putin's political system withstood the test; and his grip on power is as strong as ever. However, his ability to solve Russia's problems and achieve constructive goals is another matter. - IV567 - April 2022 / Economy

“Critics believe that the World Bank and IMF have systematically lent to states to influence their policies. External debt has been and continues to be used as an instrument to subordinate borrowers.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Sri Lanka, Debt

“The suit is important for Tesla's Black victims, and also opens the door to a future union drive based on the unity of Black, brown and white workers.” - IV567 - April 2022 / United States (USA), Racism

North Korea has clarified its position to support Russia externally. Although the UN General Assembly (UNGA) overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on 2 March demanding that Russia immediately end its military operations in Ukraine, North Korea voted against it with other four countries: Belarus, Eritrea, Russia, and Syria. In the statement of 28 February

“At the same time, like that of WG2, this report is full of the profoundly unrealistic idea that it would be possible to make antagonistic social interests converge to save the Earth's climate in universal harmony, without in the least questioning private ownership of the economy, competition for market shares, production for profit and the "produce for produce"

“Internationally, an impression is being given that Imran Khan has been overthrown because he was an anti-American. Far from it, this was an afterthought to build a political narrative that could help find some support among the ordinary people.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Pakistan

“The immediate urgency of building a common political action front around the urgent questions of the day and the fight against capitalism.” - IV567 - April 2022 / France

“The international left must be in solidarity with Ukraine as an oppressed nation and our fight for self-determination. That includes our right to secure arms for our fighters and volunteers to win our freedom.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“A trade union statement should never be taken lightly. Especially in times of war. ” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Trade unions/workplace organizing

“When workers do use their power in large strikes, the experience can rapidly become contagious and spread throughout the working class.” - IV567 - April 2022 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

“So Nato is not only a question of international imperialist alignment for the left in Turkey, but is above all about the memory of many local massacres and murders. ” - IV567 - April 2022 / Turkey, Ukraine, NATO

“The worst disease is the treatment of the Negro. Everyone who freshly learns of this state of affairs at a mature age feels not only the injustice, but the scorn of the principle of the Fathers who founded the United States that ‘all men are created equal.' [I could] hardly believe that a reasonable man can cling so tenaciously to such prejudice.” — Albert Einstein

Academic conferences generally uncontroversial, even boring, affairs. This was decidedly not the case in October of 2018, when a two-day workshop titled “Turkey's New Neoliberal State in the Making?” was held at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. - Reviews section / Turkey, Reviews

Ernest Mandel was one of the most significant Marxists of the twentieth century. During his life, Mandel participated in anti-fascist resistance, played a leading role in the Fourth International, and assisted Che Guevara with socialist economic planning after the Cuban Revolution. For many socialists, Mandel's writings were their first encounter with

Tribute at the funeral on 21 March by Michèle Krivine, née Martinet, wife of Alain Krivine. She was active in the Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire, and subsequently the Ligue communiste and the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Tribute at the funeral by Hubert Krivine, twin brother of Alain, physicist, and for many years a member of the leadership of the Fourth International. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Trribute at the funeral on 21 March by Olivier Besancenot, national spokesperson of the NPA, and previously of the LCR. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Trribute at the funeral on 21 March 2022, by Alex Merlo on behalf of the Bureau of the Fourth International. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Tribute at the funeral on 21 March 2022 by François Sabado, who has been a leader of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, the Nouveau parti anticapitaliste and the Fourth International. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

Tribute at the funeral on 21 March 2022 by Charles Michaloux, former leader of the Ligue communiste and the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire. - Tributes to Alain Krivine / France, Obituary, Fourth International

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine sets a terrible precedent for the resolution of conflicts which involve the risk of nuclear war. This is why the Left must come up with our own vision of international relations and the architecture of international security. ” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“But the most specific thing leftists can do is to fundamentally shift their organisation's analysis of the war. They should not tolerate Putin's imperialism and should fully support the right of Ukrainian people to self-determination.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“Although the fierce resistance of the Ukrainians has slowed down the advance of the Russian troops, it is very difficult to predict the sequence of events. But there is no reason to think that Putin has given up on his plan to dismantle Ukraine.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

“Every day of resistance is a day of winning, every day is a grain of sand in Putin's war machine. With each passing day, Putin's fascistic regime will face increasing internal resistance.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Russia, Ukraine

“The stakes are high: it is not only a question of stopping the war and guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty, but also of avoiding the annihilation of Russian society, the relapse into a dynamic of disarray, impoverishment, atomization, apathy and anomie even more destructive than in the 1990s.” - IV567 - April 2022

“It is not acceptable for Russia to solve its geopolitical problems through the genocide of the Ukrainian people. ” - IV567 - April 2022 / Ukraine

The Chinese government have been trying to recreate ethnic minorities as “a single ethnic group” by brainwashing [1] to remove the ethnic identities instead of eradicating them physically. The ideology of Chinese nationalism the Chinese government has adhered to is based on the theory and logic that does not allow independence of ethnic minorities. [2]

“If it were up to me, we would have continued the struggle to the end. In my opinion, the only way to make a boss give way is to strike.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Switzerland

“In this struggle, to give ground at all, to fail to defend the smallest group, is to encourage inhumanity to its final victory, what Marx insightfully called the common ruin of the contending classes. Solidarity is the only alternative.” - IV567 - April 2022 / Britain, LGBT, Sexual politics

"When you combine democratic oppression, colonial oppression and capitalist oppression, after a while it's too much.” - IV566 - March 2022 / France, National question, Corsica

The "Ukraine crisis" [Putin's Russian-led war] may soon worsen Haiti's food security as world prices for the food the country must import rise. - IV566 - March 2022 / Haiti

Since the very first day of the war, protests have been ongoing throughout Russia, and they have taken a variety of forms. The primary one is the daily “stroll” on the streets. In contemporary Russian political language, the words gulyanie (strolling) or progulka (a walk) mean protests and meetings. Formally, only one-person pickets are allowed, but their

“Wartime presidents often improve in the polls, at least initially, and Biden is seen as one. ” - IV566 - March 2022 / United States (USA)

Challenged in Russia, because of the war against Ukraine, TotalEnergies' business is also contested in East Africa. - IV566 - March 2022 / Uganda

“Confronting racism and driving xenophobic discrimination out of society is an urgent task for populations in Japan today. ” - IV566 - March 2022 / Japan, Racism, Covid-19 Pandemic

Catherine Samary explains why she did not sign the Feminist Manifesto Against War. - Ukraine / Women, Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements, Ukraine debate

We present below our understanding of the tasks facing the Western left in particular. We hope to contribute to the debate and the construction of the peace movement, solidarity with the Ukrainian left and social movements, refugee support and anti-racism, and the strengthening of alternatives to imperialism in the west and the east of the European subcontinent.

In an open letter, political analyst Asad Ghanem urges the Ukrainian president to stop employing double standards and to support the Palestinian struggle - IV566 - March 2022 / Palestine, Ukraine, Israel

“The moment cries out for a global peace movement and antiwar resistance, at a time when those forces are terribly weak. ” - Ukraine / United States (USA), Ukraine, Ukraine debate

Salah Hamouri's repeated arrests by Israel have been the subject of considerable controversy in his mother's native France, with enormous civil society campaigns mobilizing for his release. In this article for Jacobin, he gives a firsthand account of his struggle, the battle for Jerusalem, and the wider fight for Palestinian justice. The day after it appeared

“The discussion about how to build a mass anti-war […] is about tactics. How do we mobilise the biggest number of people so that we have an audience where we can put forward our respective arguments about the nature of Putin's Russia or the role of NATO?” - Ukraine / Britain, Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements

The debate on the war in Ukraine and building the anti-war movement. - Ukraine / Greece, Ukraine, War drive/Anti-war movements

“The risk today with the war initiated by Putin is a large-scale famine in Africa.” - IV566 - March 2022 / Russia, Africa, Ukraine

Au Loong-yu explores China's response to Russia's war in Ukraine. - IV566 - March 2022 / Russia, China, Ukraine

“He was always convinced that the struggle for revolution was taking place on a global scale and that the Fourth International should be strengthened as much as possible. ” - In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / France, Obituary, Fourth International

The following are six questions related to the position stated in my “Memorandum on the radical anti-imperialist position regarding the war in Ukraine” - IV566 - March 2022 / Ukraine

“There is only one way to prevent these disasters. The war must be stopped by ourselves – men and women of Russia. This country belongs to us, not a handful of mad old people with palaces and yachts.” - IV566 - March 2022 / Russia, War drive/Anti-war movements

“Thus, although the idea of socialism has today been undermined by a series of defeats, making it credible again as a libertarian, egalitarian and democratic alternative; offering a vision of an emancipated future where people govern themselves; making desirable a society where everyone would work less and benefit from more time to realize themselves...

This article describes very precisely the war seen from Ukraine and how part of the Ukrainian population has joined the resistance, especially the territorial defense units: a vast popular mobilization. - IV566 - March 2022 / Russia, Ukraine

“But in this region taken as a whole, new and old fears and recriminations combine with the challenges represented by the gigantic growth of trade with China.” - IV566 - March 2022 / United States (USA), Britain, Australia, China