Below we present a comprehensive report on our association’s activities in 2024. It includes a financial solidarity report aimed at our Asian partners, but also addresses many other issues. Preparing this report requires time and attention, which we particularly lacked (or were unable to set aside) for multiple reasons during the first quarter. Thus, we have accumulated considerable delay (even more than last year) and we apologise for this. This chronic lack of time is nothing exceptional, and we need to consider the optimal date when it could and should be published (February is probably too early and April too late) to organise ourselves accordingly. The report below therefore incorporates information up to the end of March.
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Poland’s Political Future: How Konfederacja and Razem Could Replace the Old Duopoly Poland’s dominant political duopoly between Civic Platform [centre-right] and Law and Justice [nationalist-conservative] is crumbling. Could this bring a dramatic realignment around the far-right Konfederacja and left-wing Razem parties, driven primarily by younger voters who reject the existing (…)
Disasters of Neoliberalism and Hindutva Fascism in India “From 1980s onwards, neoliberal economic policies were pursued as a strategy of economic growth which helped global, national and local capitalist classes. Such a strategy helped to consolidate capitalist classes and marginalised the workers in India. In the beginning, Hindutva politics used to (…)
How Liberalisation Destroyed India’s Economy Instead of unleashing the animal spirits of private enterprise, structural reforms helped India Inc corner public resources and government assets.
Our family got its first TV set in 1982, when I was 10 years old. Every evening, after I had come back from playing one-tip-one-hand cricket in (…)250 Million Indians in a National Strike Workers and Farmers Strike Against Anti-Workers Labor Codes and Government Failures
Activists and members of various political parties block the traffic in Bhubaneswar on 9 July 2025 as part of nationwide strike. Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout
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The Persecution of Francesca Albanese [United Nations Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories] When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning. Her office is tasked (…)
UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’ United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’
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Analysis | Netanyahu Leaves Washington Without a Gaza Cease-fire, Just Like He Wanted Netanyahu is sabotaging talks, hoping Trump will blame Hamas if negotiations fail. He vows to renew the war after a cease-fire and insists on holding Gaza’s Morag Corridor. Unless Trump forces his hand, there will be no deal, and that suits Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)The Steelworker’s Dilemma: Organising Labour in Post-Soviet Ukraine Oleg Dubrovsky’s memoir offers a rare, unvarnished account of grassroots socialist organising in post-Soviet Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Working as a metal pourer, boiler fitter, and rolling-mill operator across three factories in Dnipropetrovsk, a major industrial region in eastern Ukraine, (…)
Confront Trump and Denounce Brazil’s Traitorous Far Right! The recent tariff war action declared by Donald Trump against Brazil—raising U.S. import tariffs on Brazilian goods to 50%—represents a new and serious attack on our country. Using the excuse of what he calls the “persecution” of Bolsonaro and his allies, Trump escalated the trade war with his (…)
India. New Law Targets ’Urban Naxals’ and Dissent Maharashtra’s Assembly has passed the Special Public Security Bill, a deeply troubling piece of legislation that criminalises left-wing extremism in India’s most populous state, under the guise of national security. The bill’s vague definitions of urban Naxals (a pejorative term used by India’s (…)
Book Review - Global Battlefields: Walden Bello’s ’Memory of Movement’ “Bello’s skilled pen and prodigious memory hurl the reader into pitched street battles and conference debates”
As a public intellectual, Walden Bello enmeshed himself with many struggles over six decades: rebellious Jesuit scholar, communist cadre, plotter and implementer of splashy (and (…)From Smokey Mountain to Solidarity: Women Leading the Fight for Urban Justice in Manila In the former Smokey Mountain and neighbouring settlements, government “modernisation” projects mask deeper structural inequalities whilst displacing the very communities whose labour sustains the city. Drawing on David Harvey’s concept of the right to the city, Afifah of the Indonesian Women’s (…)
Brazil Hosts Diluted BRICS Summit as Putin and Xi Skip Rio Gathering The seventeenth BRICS summit convenes in Rio de Janeiro this weekend under unprecedented pressure, with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Putin notably absent. Brazil’s diplomatic corps scrambles to manage competing tensions: Trump’s threats of 100% tariffs against countries abandoning the dollar, (…)
Budapest Pride showed the only effective strategy for confronting restrictions on freedom When Viktor Orbán’s government banned Budapest Pride and threatened participants with facial recognition technology and hefty fines, it seemed the Hungarian regime had found the perfect tool for silencing dissent. Instead, the crackdown backfired spectacularly. Nearly 200,000 people flooded the (…)
Interview: Can Ahmad al-Sharaa Restore Trust at Home and Abroad? “This discussion will focus on the aftermath of the Assad regime’s fall and the rise of Ahmad al-Sharaa as transitional president. We’ll explore Syria’s potential economic direction, prospects for transitional justice, and evolving relations with neighboring countries and the West—particularly (…)
Internationalism or Geostrategy, One Must Choose! The international left faces a crucial test as conflicts rage from Ukraine to Palestine. Too many progressive voices have fallen into the trap of “campism” - choosing between competing imperial powers rather than consistently supporting oppressed peoples’ right to self-determination. Daniel (…)
Mexican Student Faces Terror Charges for Palestinian Solidarity Art in Prague A Mexican doctoral student living in Prague faces up to ten years in prison for displaying a colouring book image of Palestinian activist Layla Khaled at a demonstration. Jesus [name changed] was arrested in a dramatic armed police raid and charged under Czech Republic’s anti-terrorism laws - (…)
The Crisis of Bourgeois Politics in Bangladesh and the Revolutionary Path of Left Revolutionary: A Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, and Gramscian Analysis "Since its birth in 1971, Bangladesh’s political landscape has been dominated by bourgeois political parties, chiefly the Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Though both claim to represent the interests of the people and national sovereignty, in reality, their politics (…)