National politics

Starmer’s Britain – a spectral nightmare of racism, misogyny and transphobia

Farage laughs behind Starmer
Europe  

By Paul Moorhouse PRMI in Scotland. 27 May 2025 11 months ago British voters decisively voted to reject the increasingly crisis ridden right-wing Tory party which had been in government since 2010. The incoming Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed that with 411 out of 650 parliamentary seats he had a ‘clear mandate to rule for […]

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Three thousand march to demand trans rights in Belfast

Head of trans-rights protest in Belfast with banner reading "No going back"
LGBTQIA+, PRMI, Europe  

By Ann-Katrin Orr, Socialist Party Ireland. 22 May 2025 On Saturday, 17 May, Belfast was filled with a 3,000–strong March for Trans Rights. It was initiated by ROSA, the Socialist Feminist movement and backed by various organisations across the LGBTQIA+ sector, trade unions and political organisations, including the Socialist Party. The march took place in

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

Trump and Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin
Europe, Global economy  

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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Turning back the clock: Trump launching war on progress

Trump during his inauguration
LGBTQIA+, Americas, Imperialist conflict and war, Socialist feminism  

By Harper Cleves, Socialist Party Ireland. 31 March 2025 Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 election was a huge blow to millions living in the United States and around the world. From promises of deporting ‘one million immigrants,’ to spending tens of millions of dollars in the final weeks of the election campaign on ads

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The Balkans shaken by anger as greed and corruption exposed

Army troops and tanks in Myanmar
Workers' struggle and solidarity, Europe  

By Walter Chambers, 27 March 2025 The massive protests that have already lasted six days in Istanbul, the city that sits on the edge of Europe are a vivid reminder of the volatility of this whole region. Yet the mainstream and even left media pay scant attention to what is happening.  Already this year barely

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Myanmar: embroiled in a complex and intensifying revolutionary and civil war

Protesters in Myanmar demand democracy
Asia, Imperialist conflict and war  

It’s now over four years since the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military overthrew the elected government. The coup met widespread resistance and escalated into a brutal civil war. PRMI reporters spoke to the Marxist journalist and historian Phyo Win Latt. 24 March 2025 PRMI: With the world news dominated by the Genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine,

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