National politics

Young people do not trust the former liberation movements still in power today

Africa, Workers' struggle and solidarity, News and analysis, PRMI  

By Ndumiso from South Africa Published 9 January 2025 This is the transcript of the introduction by Ndumiso to the discussion on the global situation held during the meeting of the PRMI on 14 December 2024. It has been slightly edited for stylistic reasons.  I want to focus my introduction on developments in Africa. Generally, […]

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New dangers threaten the Democratic Republic of the Congo

M23 troops escort captured soldiers
Africa, Workers' struggle and solidarity, Imperialist conflict and war  

A new horrific crisis is unfolding again in DRC. In their drive to capture Goma, hundreds, if not thousands have been killed. Tens of thousands have fled from DRC for fear of being conscripted into M23. International “peacekeepers” have failed to keep the peace.   By Paul Moorhouse and Ndumiso Ncube, 5 March 2025   In

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Trump’s Victory and the Downfall of the Democrats – a Working Class Movement is More Important than Ever

News and analysis, Americas  

by Marco de Laforcade (Boston) and Aron Schall (New York) The 2024 U.S. Presidential elections produced shocking results for millions of workers around the country. Not only did Trump win another presidential election, but did so in a landslide victory, sweeping every swing state and delivering Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress. While poll

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Vijay’s new party: will the TVK live up to its promises?

News and analysis, Asia  

By Socialist Struggle India 23 November 2024 On October 27, famous Tamil film actor Thalapathy ‘Vijay’ held the first public rally of his new political party, Thamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), which he launched in February this year. A huge crowd of several hundred thousands, prominently featuring young people and first-time voters, gathered in Tamil Nadu’s

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Irish General Election: Low mood benefits establishment – left opposition must be built inside & outside Dáil

News and analysis, PRMI, Europe  

By Donal Devlin 10 December 2024 “The choice of the Irish people is clear: they want more of the same”. This was the immediate and typically superficial reaction from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy about the outcome of the general election in Ireland. Much of the establishment media followed suit. Similarly, Fianna Fáil (FF) and Fine

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Celebrations sweep Syria, but what comes next?

News and analysis, Middle East  

The brutal over-half-century-long Assad-dictatorship has fallen in Syria. Thousands and thousands of political prisoners have been able to reunite with their families, many after years during which they were thought dead. Millions more who were internally displaced are rejoicing as they reunite with their families. The grip of fear losing its hold on people has

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A thousand days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can the war end?

News and analysis, Imperialist conflict and war, Europe  

By Walter Chambers 5 December 2024 The suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent conflict has been pushed out of the global headlines by the horrific genocide in Gaza, but it is no less horrific. The number of dead and wounded, both military and civilian, now far exceeds

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South Korea: Martial Law crumbles within hours under threat of general strike

News and analysis, Asia  

By Serge Jordan 4 December 2024 Dramatic events have shaken South Korea in the past 24 hours, plunging the country into a major political crisis. Right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, accusing opposition parties of pro-North Korean sympathies and pledging to eliminate “anti-state elements”. Yet this desperate authoritarian gamble backfired spectacularly,

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Stop the Genocide in Gaza and the spiraling bloodshed in the Middle East

News and analysis, Imperialist conflict and war, Middle East  

By Serge Jordan 29 October 2024 For more than a year, the world has been watching in horror in real-time as the Gaza Strip has been enduring one of the most destructive and merciless bombing campaigns in history—an unrelenting assault of genocidal proportions. Yet the machinery of death and destruction wielded by the Israeli State

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US elections 2024: The stark limits of lesser-evilism in the age of disorder

News and analysis, Americas  

Harper Cleves 23 October 2024 Ears bandaged in a Van Gogh-esque homage to Trump’s injury in a summer assassination attempt; attendees of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) decked out in white as a nod to the suffragettes; live streamed debates where the moderator has to clarify in real time that “murdering infants is illegal in

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