What gave Magyar immediate political weight was not only the scandal itself, but his position within the system he was now criticising. He presented himself as someone who knew how power actually worked inside Fidesz: how political loyalty, personal networks, and access to state resources had been used to build careers and fortunes. This insider-outsider position allowed him to break through in a way the established opposition parties had been unable to.

Despite shameful reporting throughout the Western media of “preemptive strikes”, this is a naked imperialist war of aggression against a state that the US and Israel see as their chief rival in the region and have long sought to topple. These powers seek unfettered domination of West Asia, including control of Iran’s oil and gas reserves, the fourth largest in the world. 

On the one hand, successive governments cut into our social safety net, and on the other, they implement freedom-restricting laws to prevent us from protesting.

The strategies used by the minister to bypass Quebec institutions are blatant. He alone decides the fate of the working class and grants himself the right to manage any labor dispute as he pleases, no longer even pretending to respect workers.

On top of numerous broken campaign promises, the Ouattara government has also been responsible for a record level of public fund embezzlement. From inflated infrastructure project costs to funds meant for basic social services — water, electricity, education, and healthcare — public money has been diverted often with impunity and in full view of the public. Ouattara fears losing power because he doesn’t want to be held accountable.

Stalin and the bureaucracy feared Trotsky as a living, breathing indictment of their monstrous dictatorship and his survival as a vindication of every life lost and body incarcerated in the gulag. His life in exile was dedicated to the task of organising those comrades who rejected the betrayals of Stalinism into the nuclei of new revolutionary parties, first as the International Left Opposition (ILO) and from 1938 as a new ‘Fourth International” under the shadow of fascism and the looming prospect of a new world war.