World

From the 16th to the 18th of September, Iquitos is on strike, demanding a resolution to the gas price crisis, an end to destructive mining, and better internet connectivity.

Like many activists practicing their constitutionally protected rights of free speech and peaceful protest, No ICE is subject to surveillance and harassment by law enforcement.

Over one thousand lives lost, countless villages and towns destroyed. The visuals of a raging torrent of mud soil and stone reducing concrete buildings to rubble will be forever etched into our collective memories. Far from being an abstract concept, this is what global warming looks like.

On the morning of September 13, we woke up to terrible news regarding the LGBTI+ movement in Turkey. Police raids were conducted on the homes of the board of directors and supervisory board members of Kaos GL Association. Numerous executives, including alternate members, were detained, and the association building was searched. News reports indicated that more than 10 LGBTI+ activists were taken into custody. At the center of the investigation are allegations of "obscenity" under Article 226 of the Turkish Penal Code and opposition to the Law on Associations.

Whilst Burnham is a more capable and charismatic politician, despite his rhetorical claims, he is unlikely to reverse Thatcherism’s policies of privatisation and deregulation, and the anti-trade union legislation. Nor will he reverse the brutal immigration controls being introduced, as he voted for the Immigration and Asylum Bill at its second reading in July.

On Sept. 6, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany or AfD) trounced its opponents in the state election in Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) state. For the first time in German postwar history, a party of the far right has won a state election. Everyone here from the far left to the liberal center sees this as one of the darkest moments of German postwar history.

Interview with a CNTE teacher  A writer for Workers’ Voice in the United States interviewed Francisco Bravo, a veteran Mexican teacher and social activist, and a member of the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), a militant teachers’ organization within the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE). 1. What are the historical reasons behind the […]

While armed organizations in the region are losing strength, central states are being strengthened with the financial and diplomatic support of imperialism. This process has reached its current point because Erdoğan has either eliminated all centers of power within the state or made them dependent on himself.

Stunning electoral news has come from a district that has been served by the same Democratic state senator since the early 1990s. An independent socialist candidate is not just in the running for Connecticut’s District 11 seat; they have made the ballot.

The SOCIALIST WORKERS’ LEAGUE is a Trotskyist political current aspiring to become the Peruvian section of the IWL-FI. A handful of men and women from various regions of the country are organizing, determined to build the liberation tool that the workers and oppressed of Peru and the world need to free ourselves from the capitalist-imperialist yoke. With this supreme objective, we are giving birth to a new internationalist national organization, rooted in the need to contribute to resolving the crisis of global revolutionary leadership faced by workers and revolutionaries in Peru and around the world.

During the long march from Muzaffarabad last month, one in every five individuals were out on the march for the question of Kashmir. That question, is not limited to a fair share in the water resources of Kashmir, or the specific excesses of the police and armed forces on the people. It is not limited to the right to peacefully organize and agitate. The question being posed is the question of self-determination

Parts of the metropolitan area of Puerto Rico have experienced interruptions in drinking water service to their homes and businesses since the month of June. The threat of rationing has loomed over residents of the towns of Loíza and Canóvanas, while previous breakdowns in various areas were pushed to the back burner. Before the Superaqueduct broke, residents of Miraflores and Santurce had been without water for months, relying on water tankers and draining their personal finances.

On the 19th of August, the General Body meeting of FETSU (Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union) was attacked by the thugs of the BJP aligned students’ union ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad), who claimed that this meeting was illegitimate. It must be understood that these attacks are not new, for long Jadavpur University has been a thorn in the eyes of the BJP and the Hindutva movement.

On Friday night (the 31st) in São Paulo, The Unified Socialist Workers Party (or PSTU) officially announced their nomination of Hertz Dias' for President and Vanessa Portugal, a professor from Minas Gerais, for Vice President in the 2026 elections. The certification took place during the party's National Electoral Convention at the headquarters of the Metro Workers' Union in São Paulo, bringing together leaders, militants, and supporters from different regions of the country.

Speaking to relatives living in Iraq during this most recent eruption of war into their lives, I could only come away with a sense of admiration bordering on awe at their resilience. In phone conversations, they spoke about continuing to lead their daily lives as if the bombs are not falling, about having been through worse in the past, and about their commitment to maintain their dignity and moments of joy as states much more powerful than theirs kick Iraq around like a football.

On August 15, 2021, U.S. occupation forces withdrew from Afghanistan, putting an end to a criminal occupation that lasted 20 years — during which U.S. imperialism invested around 300 million dollars per day to sustain a corrupt puppet government, as well as a military force that committed all types of human rights violations against the Afghan population. In the five years since the end of the U.S. occupation, the new regime led by the Taliban has imposed a monopoly on violence in the hands of the State, securing de jure diplomatic recognition from Russia and de facto recognition from all of its neighbors, as well as international powers.