Europe

Chanted by thousands upon thousands of demonstrators in dozens of Ukrainian cities, these few words sum up the feelings and will of the Ukrainian people better than any other. They express aspirations for Ukrainian independence from centuries of Russian rule and an ironclad determination to defend the democratic freedoms won by the masses in the […]

By JOHN LESLIE The Ukraine Solidarity Network, a national network of organizations and individual activists, has embarked on our most ambitious project yet, a fundraiser to raise $38,000 for the Ukrainian nurses union. The union, Be Like We Are! (Будь як ми!), is trying to raise the funds for the purchase of two medical diagnostic […]

By Demian Vinnichenko On July 22, 2025, the Ukrainian government took a drastic authoritarian turn when Bill No. 12414 was passed. This law subordinates the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to the Prosecutor General’s Office, which is under the president’s direct control. The Prosecutor General’s Office gained […]

Labour has abandoned workers on strike. By ISL Birmingham City Council (BCC) Unite bin workers went on strike on 6 January because 170 affected workers face cuts in their wages of up to £8,000 a year. Then, as the council and commissioners refused to move their position on 11 March the strike became an indefinite […]

By International Socialist League As the Labour Party continues its unrelenting shift to the right—often echoing the rhetoric and policies of the far right—a growing number of voices are calling for the formation of a new party rooted in the interests of the working class, many are also calling it a new party of the […]

By Jim Stead On 4 July 2025 the British parliament proscribed Palestine Action with just 26 MP’s voting against, Jeremy Corbyn (independent left MP) asked, unsuccessfully, for the proscription vote to be taken in three parts because the bill included two proposed proscriptions – a violent neo-Nazi group ‘Maniacs Murder Cult’ and an ultranationalist white […]

Recently, the Socialist Workers’ Party (PTS) of Argentina and its international organization, the Trotskyist Faction (FT), devoted a television program and an extensive article on their multimedia platform, Izquierda Diario, to analyzing Donald Trump’s proposal to Vladimir Putin to establish a “peace agreement” that would end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Their analysis focuses […]

By IWL-FI European Secretariat We write this statement while we are witnessing the conflict between Iran and Israel, parallel to the continued Israeli brutal genocide in Gaza while the European governments hide their complicity with the Zionist entity, with crocodile tears and lukewarm and hypocritical denouncements. A genocide with which Israel has not managed to […]

23 thousand workers of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, members of the DİSK General-Labour Union, went on strike with great enthusiasm on Thursday 29 May. The strike of Izelman, Izenerji and Egeşehir workers of the municipality has reached its fifth day. The big actions of thousands of workers on the streets of Izmir have raised the […]

By Demián Vinnichenko* The center exploits the periphery At the end of April 2025, Ukraine and the United States signed a “Cooperation Agreement on Mineral Extraction.” On the surface, it provides “aid” from the United States. In reality, however, it consolidates rigid imperialist control for an indefinite period. As the center of the global capitalist […]

By Esat Erdoğan Since 2016, Turkiye has been ruled by a new Bonapartist regime in which all powers are concentrated in the executive palace, with rule by appointed trustees without separation of powers. Erdoğan is the undisputed Bonaparte of this regime as a leader who has even “liquidated” his own party. A capitalist oligarchy dominated […]

By Hakkı Yukselen Turkish President Erdoğan has said that the country is going through a process, with a “Turkiye without Terror” being the beginning. Supposedly, this “process” is continuing and will reach its conclusion very soon! “Supposedly”, because no one knows what is actually happening except the parties directly involved!  At the very least, there […]

By Demian Vinnichenko The victory over Nazism in World War II has long been central to the state ideology of Russian imperialism. The Kremlin has transformed the war into a holy crusade, cynically exploiting it to justify new acts of aggression, which are, of course, the antithesis of the anti-fascist struggle. Following the Nazi invasion […]

The events of the last few weeks have shown that the “rounds of negotiations” in Saudi Arabia and Turkey under the auspices of Trump’s “peacemaking”, which were openly welcomed by the Ukrainian government and, with delays and conditions, by the Kremlin, were yet another maneuver to continue the double imperialist aggression against Ukraine. It is […]

By Hakkı Yükselen Threats are in the air again. This time, contrary to usual (at least for now), the target is “Turks!” The story is the same again: Just when Türkiye’s economy was about to recover, foreign powers took action as they had done before and stirred up the country! In order to prevent the […]

Today in Türkiye, the voice of the youth, their demands for freedom, their search for justice and their longing for an equitable life are being silenced. The government sees every rising dissenting voice as a threat; students who exercise their democratic rights and express their thoughts peacefully are being suppressed with police violence, detentions and […]