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Trotsky at work in his office in the Kremlin 1919

85th anniversary of Trotsky’s Assassination

Paul Moorhouse PRMI in Scotland 19 August, 2025

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.

Protest outside Egyptian embassy in Beirut. The placard reads "You siege Gaza, we siege your embassy"

Interview: Protests against genocide in Gaza need stepping up

PRMI reporters 18 August, 2025

In Gaza itself, there’s been the whole charade with the airdrops. I think they dropped about 2000 food parcels. This is about 0.4% of what was needed in the time that they dropped them. The minimum Gaza needs is about 600 trucks per day, and what they dropped was equivalent to 200 trucks, not in a day but over two weeks. So the lives of Palestinians in Gaza have only worsened, there is now stage five hunger. Every day that passes means more people are close, dangerously close to dying. Other people are getting weaker so they cannot help with getting the food.

Bolsonaro's far-right supporters attempt to occupy Presidental palace

Trump’s 50% tariff on Brazil backfired on Bolsonaro

Marcio Silva PRMI in Brazil 8 August, 2025

The organised working class and the entire progressive sector of the population eagerly awaited Bolsonaro’s arrest, which finally happened on Monday 4th of August when Moraes charged him with defying court orders after he appeared at rallies called by his supporters. It is worth remembering that not only was he the mastermind behind the coup attempt, but he is also guilty of many other crimes, from theft and corruption to deliberate negligence in the pandemic and inciting farmers to murder indigenous people and burn forests.

Trump regime being consumed by Epstein scandal

James McCabe Socialist Party, Ireland 6 August, 2025

As more and more information emerges about the sordid relationship between these two obscenely rich sexual predators, the bulk of the media coverage tends to overlook the immense trauma suffered by the victims of Epstein and his network of powerful, ruling-class men. The truth has been hidden about so many aspects of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. However, what’s crystal clear is that the survivors have been completely failed by the justice system.

Picture oof ROSA/PRMI banner on Trans-pride London 2025

PRMI supporters in Britain define political outlook

PRMI reporters 30 July, 2025

Although a vibrant, democratic mass left wing party will be a very important step forward, it does not remove the necessity of a revolutionary Marxist organisation. The reality is that left formations can grow very rapidly, and even challenge for political power, but if they confine themselves to a reformist programme, ameliorating and softening the harshness of capitalism rather than seeking to overthrow it, they will end up in power simply operating capitalism to the detriment of the mass of the people.

Desperate starving children in Gaza reaching out for food

It’s a new holocaust – stop the genocide in Gaza

Donal Devlin Socialist Party, Ireland 25 July, 2025

A new ‘holocaust’ is perhaps the only term that accurately characterises the horror we’re now seeing in Gaza. From the very beginning of this genocide, the denial of food, fuel and water has been used as a weapon of war against two million Palestinians living in the world’s largest concentration camp.

New left party announced as Starmer’s government flails.

Cerys Keane PRMI in Wales 25 July, 2025

Polls show a new left formation could pose a real threat to Labour. 140,000 have signed up in the first 10 hours. Labour’s 2017 vote under Corbyn’s leadership was 3.2 million more than Starmer’s ‘landslide’ 2024 election. Interestingly, before it has even been formed, polls indicate somewhere between 10-18% of voters said they would support the new party.

The early aftermath and wreckage at the Chernobyl nuclear station

Chernobyl disaster: interviews with victims

From the archives PRMI 23 July, 2025

Although scientists estimate that 200,000 have died following the Chernobyl disaster, big business and governments are attempting to resurrect nuclear power, arguing the consequences of the disaster were not so serious after all.

Indigenous people demonstrate demanding rights and against Co2onialism

Fighting green imperialism and the threat of fossil fascism

Philipp Chmel PRMI in Austria 23 July, 2025

While the world is burning, the rulers of this capitalist hellscape continue to carry out, support and enable the ongoing genocides in Palestine and Sudan.

Frantz Fanon at 100: Review of ‘A Dying Colonialism’

Manus Lenihan Socialist Party, Ireland 22 July, 2025

Frantz Fanon wrote with conviction. His statements were bold, categorical and challenging. His voice still rings out clear today, whether raised in anger against racism or in support of peoples struggling for freedom.

Workers outside the occupied Renault plant in France 1968

Adapting to a new era: the post-WWII Fourth international

Nicolas Croes PRMI in Belgium 22 July, 2025

For Marxists, any outlook is conditional. Many economic, political and social factors arise and interact with each other. At any given time, it is crucial to evaluate and adapt the perspectives that have been mapped out, because it is these that provide the guide for revolutionary action. A fundamentally different development from the one anticipated can occur, and clinging to dated perspectives is a mistake for which there is always a heavy price to pay. Unfortunately, this is what happened with the Fourth International.

Women workers in India participate in general strike

Millions down tools in ‘Bharat Bandh’ in resounding rebuke to Modi government

Socialist Struggle PRMI in India 11 July, 2025

The elephant in the room is the crisis at the heart of the trade union movement; many of its leaderships are affiliated with opposition parties that have a record of embracing pro-corporate policies themselves, and treat these strikes as symbolic pressure tactics —not stepping stones toward a sustained and escalating movement.