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Ukrainian and Polish trade unions are calling on delegates to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) world congress to expel the pro-war Russian Federation of Trade Unions (FNPR) from its ranks.
The ITUC — the world’s largest global trade union confederation, with 331 affiliated (...)
The International Youth camp took place from 23 to 29 July 2022 in Vieure, France. After two years of suspension due to Covid-19, the gathering is a week of self-managed camp that this year brought together more than 200 young revolutionaries from different parts of Europe, but also from (...)
Between July 23 and 29, around 200 young people gathered to celebrate the 37th edition of the Revolutionary Youth Camp organised by the Fourth International in Vieure (France). After almost three years since the last camp, the hope, motivation and emotion of returning to share self-managed (...)
In Jacobin, Ben Burgis has a piece arguing “opposing war has always been at the heart of socialist internationalism.” It begins with a total howler:
The International Workingmen’s Association, later known as “the First International,” was founded in 1864 to bring together the world’s left-wing (...)
“I think he is a war criminal,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden was responding to a reporter’s question following a White House event. Earlier, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, ruling on a complaint filed by Ukraine, directed Russia to (...)
The map of global participation in the sanctions against Russia suggests a new non-aligned movement might be on the rise
On 2 March, as the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion reached 1 million, the United Nations security council called an emergency session of the (...)
The Covid pandemic laid bare the reality that women do hold up more than half the sky. A long read by Susan Pashkoff and Margaret Rapp.
The Covid pandemic laid bare the reality that women do hold up more than half the sky. What became evident is that traditional women’s labour, derided as (...)
Motion adopted by the International Commitee of the Fourth International.
Copyright Dominique Botte. Fourth International
Each year, International Women’s Day is an important moment in giving visibility to feminist struggles against patriarchal capitalism, in its attempt to engender new ways (...)
Over the past several years, I have met and interviewed a number of political activists, both male and female, trying to understand how and why they came to do what they do, what made them often go against the grain, and take unpopular positions, sometimes at considerable personal risk and (...)
The following article consists of excerpts from Colin Barker’s 2007 draft article, “Class Struggle, Movement, Party”, the full text of which can be found here. In the excerpts that follow, Barker offers crucial insights into the relationship between classes, movements, and organization. Most (...)
Capire talked to Yildiz Temürtürkan, international coordinator of the World March of Women, about the movement’s history and challenges
The World March of Women is a feminist, internationalist, anticapitalist, and anticolonial movement organized from local coordinations in 51 countries and (...)
On 23 June 1921, a gathering of about 20 Communists in Moscow founded an international association to unify “revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations … into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”[1]
Merging sports and class struggle on a global scale? A (...)
Launched in 1923 in Moscow, the Peasant International, or Krestintern, was at least in organizational terms perhaps the least successful of the auxiliary bodies built by the Communist International (Comintern).
Within two years of its foundation, attention to the Peasant International “visibly (...)
Among the Communist International’s “auxiliary” work areas, the workers’ cooperatives were unique in terms of the Communists’ focus on working through a mainstream, reformist-dominated movement. The Comintern made no attempt to form a separate International of revolutionary-led cooperatives.
This (...)
The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International was held on 10/11 and 17/18 July. While previous seminars were hosted in the IIRE Amsterdam, the pandemic made it unavoidable that this should be a totally online event.
This had the very important and positive effect of (...)
The Comintern’s youth wing, sometimes referred to by its Russian acronym, KIM, was the direct continuation of the International Union of Socialist Youth Organization founded in 1907 under the aegis of the Second International.
When the outbreak of war in 1914 shattered the world socialist (...)
From its inception, the modern socialist movement upheld the social equality of women and opposed the pervasive discrimination to which they were subjected. The socialist movement itself, however, was overwhelmingly masculine in composition, and its members were far from immune to male (...)
Born in 1993, La Via Campesina has been developing and promoting the vision of food sovereignty as an alternative to the dominant capitalist relations of production, particularly in agriculture.
Every year, on April 17, La Via Campesina (“the peasant way”), an international organisation (...)
By John Riddell: Clustered around the early Communist International’s world congresses were gatherings of an array of related organizations, ranging from the massive Red International of Trade Unions (RILU) to a small gathering of Proletarian Culture (Proletkult) enthusiasts.
These auxiliary (...)
By John Riddell: “In the 1920s, the Red International of Labour Unions was by far the most powerful and important of the auxiliary organizations related to the Comintern,” according to its historian, Reiner Tosstorff.[1] E.H. Carr goes further, suggesting that the Red International “sometimes (...)
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