April 2025

Pahalgam Killings: As Kashmir bleeds again, India and Pakistan fan the flames of war

Troops on patrol in Kashmir
Asia, Imperialist conflict and war  

By Socialist Struggle India, 30 April 2025 The Indian subcontinent once again stands on the brink of catastrophe. With the Pakistani military alleging “credible intelligence” of imminent Indian airstrikes, the prospect of last week’s terror attack in Indian-occupied Kashmir becoming the spark of a new military conflict between the two nuclear-armed states is no longer […]

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As Trump runs amok, organise to smash toxic capitalism

Young people with red and purple flags saying May Day 2025
Workers' struggle and solidarity, Questions of oppression, PRMI  

By PRMI reporters 30 April 2025 May Day 2025 follows the completion of the first 100 days Trump 2.0. It has seen a relentless barrage of attacks unfurl on immigrants, women, disabled people, the LGBTQ+ – in particular transgender – community, students, pro-Palestinian activists, civil servants. Barely a section of the working class has remained

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Trump’s trade wars and new global recession – oppose all cuts to jobs, pay and services

Trump and Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin
Global economy, Europe  

By Finghín Kelly, Socialist Party Ireland. 28 April 2025  Trump’s so-called “liberation day” announcement, massively jacking up tariffs on goods entering the United States, was met with a major sell-off of shares around the globe, with trillions wiped off the stock markets as capitalists put their money into cash and safer assets.  Pointing to an

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British Supreme Court decision is a bigoted, transphobic attack

Demonstrators hold placard reading "trans rights are human rights"
LGBTQIA+, Europe  

By Ollie Bell, Socialist Party Ireland 28 April 2025 Outside the steps of the UK Supreme Court, bottles of champagne were popped by For Women Scotland – an anti-trans campaign group, who sinisterly celebrated as another attack was leveraged against the trans community. The Supreme Court had just ruled that the definition of ‘woman’, as

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The reality of Modi’s India tested by Trump’s tariffs

Modi and Trump meet with handshake
Asia, Global economy  

By Socialist Struggle India, 28 April 2025 For all the talk of India’s “strategic autonomy”, Trump’s display of raw power on the global stage in recent weeks has brought Modi’s inflated global pretensions down to size.  The latter’s bootlicking praise of Trump, far from countering that process, has only made it more obvious. Already when

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Sudan is ravaged by two years of counter-revolutionary war

Sudanese refugees escape conflict
Africa, Imperialist conflict and war  

By Liv Shange Moyo PRMI in Sweden. 16 April 2025 Two years of civil war between the RSF and the SAF – two counter-revolutionary forces that together suppressed the revolutionary movement that was sparked in 2018 before falling out – has left Sudan’s people ravaged, brutalised, starved, but not defeated. What is behind the war

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Trump regime provokes shock in world economy – a new stage in the era of capitalist disorder

Trump looks on as world burns
Global economy  

By Peter Delsing, PRMI in Belgium. 8 April 2025 The tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump last week sent shock waves through stock markets, governments and business headquarters. Working class and poor families worldwide will be the hardest hit by this trade war. Tariffs on goods imported into the US have leapt from about

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