By PRMI reporters in Brazil, 23 January 2025 This article can also be accessed in Portuguese here 2024 was an apprehensive and discouraging year for left-wing and progressive people in Brazil. In the midst of so many crises, such as the environmental one, and the urgent need for social transformation, the conservatives and the right […]
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By Donal Devlin Socialist Party Ireland, first published 19 January 2025 Two related stories featured in the news in the weeks before arch-climate change denier Donald Trump was sworn in to serve his second term as US President: 1. In 2024, the global average temperature crossed a crucial barrier, exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial
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By PRMI reporters 20 January 2025 This rather unusual article is published as a contribution to the process of clarifying how we as a revolutionary Marxist, feminist, antiracist organisation in the process of reflection and reconstruction understand and orientate ourselves within the world today. Introduction In 2024, after five years of existence, the International Socialist
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By PRMI reporters 18 January 2025 “This is a day of happiness, and sadness, a shock and joy, but certainly it is a day we all must cry and cry long because of what we all lost. We did not lose friends, relatives, and homes only, we lost our city, Israel sent us back in
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By Serge Jordan 12 January 2025 The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long dictatorship last December has dramatically reshuffled the cards of Syria’s future. A sense of freedom and jubilation broke through among many Syrians following over five decades of tyranny. However, it is tempered by fear and unease, as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), now the
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PRMI Reporters At the end of December, an international meeting of organisations and supporters from twenty-two countries was held to discuss the current global situation and take a series of political decisions concerning the work of the Project for a Revolutionary Marxist International [PRMI]. Just a week before the meeting, the sixty-year long Assad dictatorship
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By Liv from Sweden Published 09 January 2025 This is the transcript of the introduction by Liv to the discussion on the global situation held during the meeting of the PRMI on 14 December 2024. It has been slightly edited for stylistic reasons. I am going to focus on developments in the Middle East. I
What has just happened shows that “nothing is forever” Read More »
By Ndumiso from South Africa Published 9 January 2025 This is the transcript of the introduction by Ndumiso to the discussion on the global situation held during the meeting of the PRMI on 14 December 2024. It has been slightly edited for stylistic reasons. I want to focus my introduction on developments in Africa. Generally,
Young people do not trust the former liberation movements still in power today Read More »
By Christian from Mexico Published 9 January 2025 This is the transcript of the introduction by Christian to the discussion on the global situation held during the meeting of the PRMI on 14 December 2024. It has been slightly edited for stylistic reasons. All facts in this period are an expression of the change in
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A new horrific crisis is unfolding again in DRC. In their drive to capture Goma, hundreds, if not thousands have been killed. Tens of thousands have fled from DRC for fear of being conscripted into M23. International “peacekeepers” have failed to keep the peace. By Paul Moorhouse and Ndumiso Ncube, 5 March 2025 In
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by Marco de Laforcade (Boston) and Aron Schall (New York) The 2024 U.S. Presidential elections produced shocking results for millions of workers around the country. Not only did Trump win another presidential election, but did so in a landslide victory, sweeping every swing state and delivering Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress. While poll
By Vlad in Tbilisi. 19 December 2024 A new wave of protests has been ongoing in Georgia since October and shows no sign of subsiding. They follow this spring’s demonstrations against the “Russian law”, and the widespread disgust in September with the passing of a stringent law against LGBTQ+ rights, followed the day after by
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