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Palestinian women protest in Gaza city during First Intifada

Review: “The Palestinian Left and its Decline” by Francesco Saverio Leopardi published in 2020.

Walter Chambers PRMI Russia 6 February, 2026

In 1969 the PFLP declared it was a “Marxist-Leninist” organisation – a term universally used by Maoist organisations. Lenin’s united workers front strategy was replaced by Mao’s popular frontism; his class-based approach to the national question was overturned by prioritising the national conflict over class struggle; his international workers’ solidarity was replaced by alliances with the ruling elites of ‘friendly countries’; and Lenin’s “arming the working class” during a working-class led political revolution was replaced by “guerrilla struggle” aimed at igniting a mass based popular war.

Big banner saying "Greenland not for sale" in 2 languages

“Kalaallit Nunaat, Kalaallit pigaat” – Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders

Lenn Viken Socialist Party, Ireland 6 February, 2026

Thus, if we, as a movement, are serious about anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism and socialist feminism, we need to centre Indigenous voices and support the Kalaallit in how they decide to organise their own movement toward decolonisation. We have to stop speaking about this as a geopolitical conflict between Denmark and the US and start speaking about it as a continuation of the long history of annexation of Indigenous land by Western superpowers

On ‘left alliances’ – the opposition, cooperation, and the next government

Eddie McCabe Socialist Party, Ireland 6 February, 2026

This is why we want to see a genuinely left government – one based on a mass anti-capitalist and socialist movement in society, that fights for democratic public ownership of the key wealth and resources of society, and a radical transformation of the economy to meet people’s needs. It isn’t a question of left-wing ‘purity’, but what’s practically necessary. Because that’s the only kind of government that can possibly deal with the multiple chronic crises we face, all of which are only going to become more acute as the capitalist world continues to devour itself in the coming years.

The Minnesota revolt against Trump’s war on migrants

Conor Payne Socialist Party, Ireland 6 February, 2026

This movement of solidarity has also refuted the idea that the only way to push back the electoral support for the far-right is to concede to their ideas. This idea has been widely pushed since Trump was elected within the Democratic Party, the media and other sections of the establishment, particularly that Democrats must move (even) further to the right on migration. This was justified by polling, which showed that public opinion had favoured Trump’s call for a harder line stance. In fact, accepting anti-migrant frameworks has only strengthened the hand of the right.

Protest in Greenland against Trump's threats

Trump, Greenland, and the end of the ‘rules-based order’

Donal Devlin Socialist Party, Ireland 24 January, 2026

Trump has jettisoned any notion of operating as part of the “rules-based order” that has existed, as far as Western imperialism is concerned, since 1945. Of course, this was an order always rooted in rank hypocrisy, as the livestreamed genocide in Gaza since October 2023 has definitively borne out. The only order that imperialism and big capitalist powers seek is one where the rules apply to the weak, but not the powerful – facilitating geopolitical and economic domination.

Xi Jinping and Sanae Takaichi face each other

Japanese-Chinese tensions on the rise

Walter Chambers PRMI Russia 21 January, 2026

The region has a strong tradition of anti-imperialist and revolutionary struggle. Imperialist domination of China was ended by the revolution of 1949. Never a socialist society, Maoist China was a bonapartist state leaning on measures of land reform and state ownership in its early stages, before reverting to an openly capitalist, now imperialist world power. US imperialism was unable to escape defeat either in Korea or Vietnam. The Japanese masses too during the Anro movement used militant tactics to resist militarism and the domination of Japan by US imperialism.

Graffiti of Chavez with text Chavez Vive

The fate of half-revolutions – lessons of Chavismo

Darragh O Dwyer Socialist Party, Ireland 21 January, 2026

Notwithstanding nationalisations of oil, telecommunications, electricity and public services, the main levers of the economy still remained in the hands of the capitalists. In addition, a new layer of state bureaucrats and managers – the so-called Bolibourgeoisie – enriched themselves in this period and acted as a brake on the revolutionary process.

Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe

Is a second coup in ten years on Zimbabwe’s horizon?

Ndumiso Ncube writing from South Africa 12 January, 2026

Zimbabweans are angry because they are not only subjected to various forms of oppression under the tyrannical government, but they are also forced to witness the overt displays of wealth by ZANU PF leaders including buying luxury cars for their bootlickers.

Venezuela at the Crossroads — Down with Imperialist Aggression!

Latin American Bureau PRMI 11 January, 2026

Certainly, and despite the complicity of the corporate media—which for the most part has chosen to ignore the massive protests in Caracas in favor of Maduro’s release—it is a fact that Maduro’s fall did not mean the fall of his regime, the Chavista bureaucracy, or Chavismo itself. As some analysts have pointed out, this amounts to capturing the king without delivering checkmate.

Women protest in Caracas against US attack

No to Trump’s imperialist oil grab in Venezuela

Michael O Brien Socialist Party, Ireland 7 January, 2026

Centuries of colonial conquest and imperialist domination have brought nothing but misery to the masses of Latin America. Trump’s new colonial adventure in Venezuela is another chapter in this horrendous history—the working class, the poor and oppressed must build a continent-wide revolutionary movement that breaks the stranglehold of imperialist and capitalist domination and exploitation.

Demonstration in support of Palestine hunger strikers

Emergency action needed – support the Palestine Solidarity hunger strikers

Eva Martin Socialist Party, Ireland 11 December, 2025

By partaking in this hunger strike, Umer Khalid, Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha, Qesser Zuhrah Day, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Lewie Chiaramello, Jon Cink, and Kamran Ahmed are resorting to an unimaginable act of desperation and commitment to the struggle for their own justice and a Free Palestine. They should not have to do this – and there is an onus on all of us to do everything we can to prevent their deaths.

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.