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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Trump, big business and the fascist menace

Three protesters against the background of Trump
Workers' struggle and solidarity, Questions of oppression  

By Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party Ireland. 22 May 2025 This article was first published in ‘Socialist Alternative’ № 19, magazine of the Socialist Party Ireland Real life in 2025 reads like the plot of a dystopian miniseries. We’ve seen the richest man in the world perform Nazi salutes at the US President’s inauguration; that President’s

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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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How the Fourth International fought World War Two

Montage by Diego Rivera to commemorate founding of Fourth International
Theory, History, Imperialist conflict and war  

As the anniversary of the end of World War Two is celebrated, the world’s leaders are again recruiting soldiers and arming them with horrific new weapons in preparation for new conflicts, and possibly yet another, even more brutal world war.
This article examines how Trotskyists worldwide struggled, ‘despite all hazards’, to build the slender forces of the Fourth International (FI), intended to assist the working class to overthrow capitalism, and the bureaucratic, Stalinist elite in the USSR and replace them by genuinely democratic, international socialism to end poverty and war forever.

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Pahalgam Killings: As Kashmir bleeds again, India and Pakistan fan the flames of war

Troops on patrol in Kashmir
Imperialist conflict and war, Asia  

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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As Trump runs amok, organise to smash toxic capitalism

Young people with red and purple flags saying May Day 2025
Workers' struggle and solidarity, Questions of oppression, PRMI  

By PRMI reporters 30 April 2025 May Day 2025 follows the completion of the first 100 days Trump 2.0. It has seen a relentless barrage of attacks unfurl on immigrants, women, disabled people, the LGBTQ+ – in particular transgender – community, students, pro-Palestinian activists, civil servants. Barely a section of the working class has remained

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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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