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January 16, 2025

Factory farms enable the spread of bird flu

By OSCAR ECHEVERIA A new uptick in H5N1 avian flu cases is raising alarms, as dairy farms around the country have reported infections among cattle in at least 860 herds across 16 U.S. states, marking the first major outbreak among...

How can we defend women’s and Queer rights?

By CHRISTINE EVANS The incoming Trump administration has committed itself to deepening the current attacks on the rights of women and other oppressed sectors of...

Struggle for trans rights will need to accelerate under Trump

By RUSS O’SHEA For the past few years, trans people have been put in the spotlight in quite a grotesque way. November’s election saw the...

Where is Mercosur heading?

A new Mercosur summit was held in Montevideo in the first week of December. The main item on the agenda was the signing of a free trade agreement with the European Union (EU). This...

El Salvador | Stop repression against labour and human rights defenders

International Solidarity CampaignWe are writing to inform you that on Friday November 22, our comrade Erick Alexander Zelaya Ramos, General Secretary of our union federation, the National Union for the Defence of the Workers'...

Palestine Special

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Israel retreats and accepts ceasefire in Lebanon

By Fabio Bosco On November 26, the State of Israel agreed to a 60-day ceasefire with Lebanon, brokered by representatives of U.S. and French imperialism....

107 years after the revolution that changed the world

By Wilson Honório da Silva, PSTU-BrazilPetrograd, early in the morning of October 26, 1917. "Lenin, standing (…), let his small shining eyes roam over...

The suspension of MPs and the reality of Indian ‘Democracy”

By Mazdoor Inquilab The winter session of 2023 will go down in the parliamentary history of India as one of its darkest episodes. On December 16, while India and Bangladesh celebrated victory day, marking the...

When Lenin Became Trotskyist

By: Francesco Ricci Bourgeois Revolution or Socialist Revolution? Since the beginning of the twentieth century, and especially after the blood-soaked Russian Revolution of 1905, the character of the future revolution in the land of...

Women for Socialism! Let’s Put an End to the Violence, Exploitation, and Environmental Destruction of the Capitalist System!

A Statement from the IWL-FI On the occasion of another March 8, International Working Women's Day, we are proud to publish this new issue of International Mail, dedicated exclusively to analyzing the situation of...

Which way for Bangladesh?

by Mazdoor InquilabOn the January 7, Bangladesh went to the polls. The election had a predictable outcome, despite months of protests, and ongoing agitation by the garment workers. The boycott by the main...

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Working Class Struggles

The mammoth strike at Samsung India 

Since September 9, the workers at the Samsung plant at Sriperambudur in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, have been on strike. Over...

Brazil: The launch of the “Peoples’ Summit” marks the beginning of mobilizations in protest of the G20 meeting

CSP-Conlutas was present at the launching event, which took place in Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro), on Saturday, September 14. By CSP-Conlutas, Brazil Different social movements and working class organizations, among them...

A key discussion in the face of layoffs in Peru: Should we rely on “justice” or mobilization?

The recent collective dismissals at the ceramics manufacturer Celima are part of a long list of closures, layoffs, and impositions of “perfect work suspensions” (temporary layoffs) which for the...

Oppression

How can we defend women’s and Queer rights?

By CHRISTINE EVANS The incoming Trump administration has committed itself to deepening the current attacks on the rights of women and other oppressed sectors of...

Struggle for trans rights will need to accelerate under Trump

By RUSS O’SHEA For the past few years, trans people have been put in the spotlight in quite a grotesque way. November’s election saw the trans community scapegoated for virtually...

State elections: Abortion rights on the ballot

By EMMA GRACE This election season was hyper-focused on the presidential election, an intense battle between candidates who both claimed to have the answers to all of our problems. But...