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Copyright / DR Rural peon march, Argentina 1921.
On 5 April in the United States, 1,300 demonstrations involving 500,000 people expressed broad anger against Trump and his far-right government. These mobilizations, significant but still in their early stages, show that it is possible to (…)
, par DUGGAN Penelope, LARRACHE Antoine
The 18th World Congress of the Fourth International took place in Belgium at the end of February, seven years after the previous one. It provided an opportunity for in-depth discussion on the global and multifaceted crisis of capitalism, in particular the rise of tensions and militarism, and the (…)
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The situation of multiple and interlocking crises and the resulting growing urgency for humanity to leave the capitalist mode of production to avoid the larger catastrophes outlined in our resolutions renders the role of the Fourth International as an international current with active and (…)
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“The Fourth International is publishing this Manifesto now because we are convinced that the process of ecosocialist revolution, at different territorial levels but with a planetary dimension, is more necessary than ever: it is a question of not only of putting an end to the social and (…)
, by BERNASCONI Germán
The Sixth International Ecosocialist Conference was held on 10-11 May 2024. This was the first time outside Europe, a decade on from the first meeting in Geneva (Switzerland) in 2014. The project began more than a year ago, when ATTAC and the Argentine socialist movement Poder Popular were (…)
, par ROBAINA Roberto, SITO Laura
Over the past few weeks, we have been preparing the realization of the Antifascist International Conference and organizing the global struggle against the far right in the city of Porto Alegre. We scheduled the event for May 17th, 18th, and 19th, and it was meant to be the first initiative (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
The Greek revolutionary Michel Pablo had a remarkable, globe-spanning career, from wartime resistance activity to his work supplying weapons and finance for the Algerian independence struggle. He’s finally gotten the biography he deserves.
Michel Pablo may be a little-known figure today, but (…)
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WSF 2024 saw over 50,000 participants, with over 1400 organizations from six continents and 98 nations
Final statement of the World Social Forum as it comes to an end at Katmandu
As the crowds moved across central Kathmandu on Thursday, the size of the rally was massive, yet it was the (…)
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COP 28 will take place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.
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Back in May, the World Meteorological Organization reported there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027. On November 21, only nine days (…)
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Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International adopted on 25 October 2023.
Copyright. Demonstration in Liège. © Fourth International
1. The contradictions of the global capitalism continue to bring forth brutal wars and occupation. Threatened by economic and political (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ANDRÉS Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO) has now been in power for five years, long enough to assess the successes and failures of his administration and to look toward the future. AMLO was elected to his six-year term in 2018 by a landslide, with 54.71% of the vote while his (…)
, by BROWN Becky
This summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement. Becky Brown reports.
This year the 4th International youth camp was held in Vieure, central France, from 23-29 July. 200 youth from across Europe came together to better understand how their (…)
, by TRAVERSO Enzo
Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.
This year marks the centenary of the (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of (…)
, by PARKER Ian
Ian Parker reviews a new book about the work of Ernest Mandel.
Manuel Kellner, a Fourth Internationalist comrade in Germany, had the good fortune to be able to write his doctoral thesis on the work of the Belgian Trotskyist activist and theoretician Ernest Mandel. Now here it is: Against (…)
, by LEE Eric
I’ve just come back from an international conference that could not have happened thirty years ago. And it’s a conference that might also prove impossible to hold in just a few short years.
LabourStart’s Global Solidarity Conference on the theme of “trade union internationalism today” was (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Socialist scholar and activist Ernest Mandel was born one hundred years ago, on April 5, 1923. A ’Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent’, he was a militant and scholar, writing some of the most significant works of Marxist theory of the second half of the twentieth century.
Mandel was (…)
Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.
Belgian economist and radical thinker Ernest (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Born on this day a century ago, Ernest Mandel was one of the major political thinkers of his age. From his teenage activism in the anti-Nazi resistance to his final days, Mandel was an uncompromising defender of socialist ideals and working-class interests.
he Belgian socialist intellectual (…)
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Dave Kellaway reports on a conference he participated in last Saturday in Rome.
On April 1, there were hundreds of us in the modern auditorium of the central Roman national library. It may have looked like an academic conference of mostly senior researchers and professors with a sprinkle of (…)
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