Fri Sep 29, 2023
September 29, 2023

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Global warming: extreme heat and capitalism

Major heat waves and record temperatures are being recorded in various parts of the world. In the U.S. state of Texas, the temperature reached 50 °C (122 °F). But...

Canadian wildfires: A sign of things to come

By TAYTYN BADGER Since the 29th of April, the land occupied by Western Canada has...

Agribusiness: Recolonization, Violence, and Persecution in the Brazilian Countryside

The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has become the victim of a despicable campaign of...

Lula-Alckmin Government Overlooks Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

It took less than 200 days in government for Lula-Alckmin's campaign promises to be...

A Tale of Two Floods : India and Pakistan, Climate Disaster in South Asia and Capitalism

Last year Pakistan was witness to the worst flooding in its recent history, with...

A Tale of Two Floods : India and Pakistan, Climate Disaster in South Asia and Capitalism

Last year Pakistan was witness to the worst flooding in its recent history, with over a tenth of the country submerged under water, and...

Nationalize the railroads under workers’ control!

By JOHN LESLIE Railroad Workers United (RWU), a cross-union rank-and-file caucus representing railroad workers across North America, has issued a call for “the public ownership...

UN Climate Panel Predicts Earth Will Reach Limit in Next Decade

By: Jeferson Choma On March 20, the IPCC published its sixth assessment report on climate change. The document from the scientific body that advises the...

The IWL-FI and its fight against reformism

Four decades sustaining the strategy of the socialist revolution Albert Camus, French philosopher and existentialist writer, wrote an essay on the Greek myth of Sisyphus....

The IWL and the Fourth International

There are thousands of working-class and activists from the popular classes who sympathize with the revolutionary ideas of Trotsky and Trotskyism, and are involved...

Trotskyism and Stalinism: polemics of yesterday and today

The war in Ukraine divided the left across the world. Few were the organizations that took a stand in defense of the Ukrainian resistance....

A history intertwined with the workers’ movement

The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the IWL-FI offers the opportunity to rescue elements of our larger political current, which...

The socialist revolution is possible!

In January 1982 the IWL-FI was founded. Its Foundational Theses defined that: "...the most urgent and deepest need of humanity today is the world...

The IWL and the struggle against oppressions

Capitalism, a decadent and destructive system, throws all its crises and horrors on the workers and the majority of the population of the planet....

COP27: Hosted by Egypt’s dictator, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

The deepening of the climate crisis and setbacks in countries' commitments set the tone for the COP27 to be held under the Egyptian dictatorship...

Iranian revolution: the struggle for power after the revolution

After the fall of the Shah's regime, Ayatollah Khomeini and his alliance with the Ulama (Shiite clergy), the Bazaaris (traditional bourgeoisie and petty commercial...

Iran, 1979: An interrupted revolution

The Iranian revolution was extraordinary and will pass into history as one of the most important witnessed by humanity. By: Marcos Margarido The early 1970s saw...

Mobilizations in Iran Keep Growing and Target the Regime

By Florence Oppen This is the fourth week of important mobilizations in Iran following the killing of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini by the...

Iran | ‘Woman, life, freedom!’ Protests in Iran for gender equality and social justice

By Alborz Koosha, originally published on Workersvoiceus.org In March 1979, tens of thousands of people, predominantly women, protested in Tehran against the then new law...