National politics

Serbian State fails to repress mass protest movement

Mass protest in Belgrade

By Charlie Jean McKeown, Socialist Party Ireland 27 March 2025 Serbia has been captured by anti-corruption protests for four months, which are student-led, and have now gained an untameable momentum. On 1 November last year, the newly “renovated” concrete canopy of Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 and severely injuring two more. The open […]

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Mexico: Need to unite against the ruthless bourgeoisie and imperialism

By Alternativa Socialista, PRMI in Mexico. 24 March 2025 Trump’s accession to the US presidency poses a threat to Latin America. And it breeds new dangers in a world plagued by war, climate change, the rise of the far right and the economic crisis.  The increase in tariffs on Mexican products, despite the rhetoric of

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Trump-fuelled Israeli genocidal war machine shatters ceasefire in Gaza

Building in Gaza ablaze after new Israeli attacks

By Serge Jordan, PRMI. 19 March 2025 In the dead of night, in the midst of Ramadan, the Israeli regime resumed its mass bombing of Gaza, obliterating any remaining semblance of holding onto what was already an increasingly precarious and threatened ceasefire. The claim that Israel merely targeted Hamas operatives in this new barrage of

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Spotlight on US Healthcare brutality in Luigi’s Shooting Trial

Luigi Mangione arrested in handcuffs

Daniel Green, PRMI in US. 17 March 2025 All across the United States of America, working class people of all political stripes have reached an unprecedented unity in support of the Robin Hood-like character of suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  Luigi, who suffered from chronic pain and whose mother

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Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Palestine! End the genocide now!

Mahmoud Khalil

Editorial from the latest issue of The Socialist, Ireland. 14 March 2025 As we go to print, Mahmoud Khalil, a key organiser of the Palestine solidarity encampment in Columbia University in New York City, has been arrested and is being threatened with deportation from the United States. This is despite possessing a Green Card, giving

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The new American oligarchy flaunts its power

Caricature of US oligarchs with Trump

By James McCabe, Socialist Party Ireland 14 March 2025 “We’re done catering to Wall Street; we’ll commit to the working man”. JD Vance uttered these words in his first speech as Trump’s vice-presidential candidate in July 2024. Fast forward six months, as Vance’s motorcade pulled up to the 10,000 square foot home of his billionaire

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Syria: Horrific sectarian violence flares—but workers show another way

By Serge Jordan, 11 March 2025 The last few days in Syria have brought another grim chapter in the country’s long and bloody crisis. More than 1,000 people, the majority civilians, were slaughtered in the western coastal areas in three days of clashes and sectarian revenge killings.  The gruesome images of executions have flooded social

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Government makes schools a reduced priority in Côte d’Ivoire

Striking teachers in Cote d'Ivoire

By Militant Côte d’Ivoire 7 March 2025 “School is not a priority for the Ouattara government”. We have been repeating this since October. It became undeniable this Wednesday morning with the arrest of 33 teachers and the repression of their General Assembly in Abidjan.  In October 2024, primary and secondary school teachers in Côte d’Ivoire observed

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Lumumba: why popular hero of Congolese independence was assassinated

Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa and the world. By Michel Munanga PSL/LSP – Belgium. This article was first published 17 January 2021 Patrice Lumumba was initially drawn from that stratum of the Congolese population on which the Belgian colonizer relied

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German election: Instability and polarization strengthened

Die Linke flags

The political contours of the “Zeitenwende” – the “turning point – the geopolitical shift that is bringing down the once-successful model of German capitalism have been sharpened with the elections of 23 February. By Christian, Leuven 24 February 2025 With 16.4%, the social-democratic SPD achieved its worst result since 1890, when Friedrich Engels was still

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Plundering of Ukraine: Stunning change in US foreign policy

Trump looking down on a grinning Putin

By Walter Chambers, 24 February 2025 So shocking was the speech delivered by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference that the Chair burst into tears during his closing speech. Barely a day has gone by since Trump’s inauguration in which a horrific new twist has not been added to the US’s

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