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School students in Gaza on demonstration - February 1988

9 December 1987: Start of the first Intifada

PRMI reporters 9 December, 2025

Working-class protesters raided the crops of wealthy Palestinian landlords, forcing them to reduce rents. They went on strike and refused to pay taxes. Israeli Civil Administration bodies in the occupied territories were boycotted and Palestinians refused to work in Israeli settlements. A grassroots movement spearheaded by women and girls sought to establish Palestinian food autonomy, and began collectively cultivating crops.

Mass demonstration by SEAT workers in Barcelona against Franco dictatorship in 1971

50 years ago Francesco Franco, Spain’s fascist dictator died

PRMI reporters 20 November, 2025

According to the Socialists and Stalinists, i.e., the Mensheviks of the first and second instances, the Spanish revolution was called upon to solve only its “democratic” tasks, for which a united front with the “democratic” bourgeoisie was indispensable. From this point of view, any and all attempts of the proletariat to go beyond the limits of bourgeois democracy are not only premature but also fatal.

The early aftermath and wreckage at the Chernobyl nuclear station

Chernobyl disaster: interviews with victims

From the archives PRMI 23 July, 2025

Although scientists estimate that 200,000 have died following the Chernobyl disaster, big business and governments are attempting to resurrect nuclear power, arguing the consequences of the disaster were not so serious after all.

Workers outside the occupied Renault plant in France 1968

Adapting to a new era: the post-WWII Fourth international

Nicolas Croes PRMI in Belgium 22 July, 2025

For Marxists, any outlook is conditional. Many economic, political and social factors arise and interact with each other. At any given time, it is crucial to evaluate and adapt the perspectives that have been mapped out, because it is these that provide the guide for revolutionary action. A fundamentally different development from the one anticipated can occur, and clinging to dated perspectives is a mistake for which there is always a heavy price to pay. Unfortunately, this is what happened with the Fourth International.

Montage by Diego Rivera to commemorate founding of Fourth International

How the Fourth International fought World War Two

Editor 6 May, 2025

As the anniversary of the end of World War Two is celebrated, the world’s leaders are again recruiting soldiers and arming them with horrific new weapons in preparation for new conflicts, and possibly yet another, even more brutal world war.
This article examines how Trotskyists worldwide struggled, ‘despite all hazards’, to build the slender forces of the Fourth International (FI), intended to assist the working class to overthrow capitalism, and the bureaucratic, Stalinist elite in the USSR and replace them by genuinely democratic, international socialism to end poverty and war forever.