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Nepal’s ‘Gen Z’ rise up: Prime Minister resigns after deadly crackdown

Serge Jordan PRMI in India 9 September, 2025

The grotesque contrast between the opulent lifestyle of politicians and the crushing poverty facing ordinary people has fed mass outrage. In the days and weeks leading to the protests, a viral “Nepo Kid” campaign spotlighted the children of politicians and influential figures, accusing them of enjoying luxury —foreign education, lavish cars, expensive holidays— while the rest of the country is struggling.

Chennai Sanitation workers on strike attacked by the police

Chennai’s Sanitation Workers Fight Back Against Capital and Caste

Socialist Struggle PRMI in India 9 September, 2025

This struggle is fundamentally a feminist one. Sanitation work in India is not gender-neutral—it is an occupation overwhelmingly performed by women from Dalit communities. Their bodies are on the front lines, exposed to toxic waste, health hazards, and the social stigma of their caste. When the government moves to privatize sanitation services, it is not just threatening jobs; it is directly targeting the livelihoods of thousands of marginalized women.

Strike against Gaza holocaust—Shut down the system of genocide

Socialist Party Ireland 8 September, 2025

A struggle for Palestinian national liberation is bound with a need for more fundamental revolutionary change. The Israeli State is part of the system of capitalism and imperialism that dominates and exploits the peoples of the Middle East and beyond – a system built on racism, exploitation, poverty and oppression. Its whole rule must be torn down.

The Sumud flotilla with many boats sets out from Genoa

Sumud flotilla sets out as Arab rulers bury heads in the sand

Paul Moorhouse PRMI in Scotland 3 September, 2025

The destruction of the Israeli Apartheid state is not just the responsibility of the workers of West Asia, it is even more the responsibility of workers in the imperialist powers which have established, supported and armed Israel to defend their plunder of the region. Unless workers’ organisations fight for Palestinian liberation they will be unable to fight effectively for the genuine liberation of their own members.

Young female protester confronting massed riot police

Indonesia explodes in revolt

Serge Jordan PRMI in India 2 September, 2025

These protests have expressed not just outrage at parliamentary ‘excesses’, but deep rage at a system built on structural inequalities, elite plunder, and growing state authoritarianism– all at the expense of the millions who toil to survive. Ruling institutions are perceived as so rotten and untrustworthy that protesters have been calling for “Bubarkan DPR”—the dissolution of the Parliament itself.

Trump and Putin walk along red carpet after meeting in Alaska

Imperialists argue about ‘peace’ as they trample on Ukraine’s rights

Walter Chambers PRMI Russia 26 August, 2025

Ukraine is learning the hard way the role played by the different imperialist powers. Russian imperialism has acted in an aggressive, brutal way and will continue to do so until it is overthrown. The US is demonstrating it too is prepared to sacrifice Ukraine’s self-determination for its own geo-political, and mercantile interests. This should be no surprise, it has a long history of brutal military interventions against weaker nations – Algiers, Iraq, Panama, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Iran. The US and all the European powers are deeply complicit in the current genocide of Palestinians.

Young women in pain suffering from endometriosis

Endometriosis, medical misogyny, and capitalism

Marie-Claire Jennequin Socialist Party Ireland 26 August, 2025

Medical misogyny plays a central role in the crisis of endometriosis care. Historically, women’s reproductive pain has been normalised or pathologised as “emotional,” leading to diagnostic delays that average nearly a decade. This isn’t accidental – it reflects underfunding of gynaecological research, male-dominated clinical leadership, and a biomedical model that treats male bodies as the default.

Gates at the Izaguirre Ranch in Mexico patrolled by teh police

Narco, the stark violence of the system

Alternativa Socialista PRMI in Mexico 25 August, 2025

This narrative of a rampant security crisis in Mexico only feeds the coup aspirations of the national and international right wing that is now desperately trying not to lose the privileges they used to enjoy. The exaggeration of the chaos and the minimization of security advances only seek to justify the destabilization of the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum. The appointment of US Ambassador Ronald Johnson, who had suggested invading Mexico to put an end to the narco, as well as his reception and the constant calls to support a US invasion by sectors of the Mexican right, and Donald Trump’s foreign security policies towards Mexico all point in that direction.

Mass protests in pre-election period in Cote d'Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire: Presidential elections of October 25

Militant Cote d Ivoire PRMI in Cote d Ivoire 19 August, 2025

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.

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.