Trump and Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin

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

Global economy, Europe    

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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Demonstrators hold placard reading "trans rights are human rights"

British Supreme Court decision is a bigoted, transphobic attack

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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Modi and Trump meet with handshake

The reality of Modi’s India tested by Trump’s tariffs

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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Sudanese refugees escape conflict

Sudan is ravaged by two years of counter-revolutionary war

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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Trump looks on as world burns

Trump regime provokes shock in world economy – a new stage in the era of capitalist disorder

Global economy    

By Peter Delsing, PRMI in Belgium. 8 April 2025 The tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump last week sent shock waves through stock markets, governments and business headquarters. Working class and poor families worldwide will be the hardest hit by this trade war. Tariffs on goods imported into the US have leapt from about

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Trump during his inauguration

Turning back the clock: Trump launching war on progress

LGBTQIA+, Americas, Socialist feminism, Imperialist conflict and war    

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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Army troops and tanks in Myanmar

The Balkans shaken by anger as greed and corruption exposed

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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Protesters in Myanmar demand democracy

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

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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Mass protest in Belgrade

Serbian State fails to repress mass protest movement

Workers' struggle and solidarity, Europe    

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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