- Panel on the Present Danger
- La Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum For the Defense
- Palestine in the Irish Parliament
- Syria’s Delayed Revolution
- Beyond the Fragments: A Breakthrough Text
- Political Tensions Rise at Joe Slovo Commemoration
- Russia: Post-Soviet Antiwar Left
- International Labor Leader Looks Ahead
- Serbia’s Student Protests
- Workers Get Political in Indonesia
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Panel on the Present Danger
Grace Blakeley et al. / transform! Europe (Vienna)
What will Trump’s economic policies mean for the global economy, for the European Union and for the Global South? How will they affect the relationship between labor and capital within the United States? Journalists from Lava Media asked Grace Blakeley, Sam Gindin, Rémy Herrera, Jörg Kronauer, Peter Mertens, Michael Roberts, Ingar Solty and James Meadway.
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La Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum For the Defense
W.T. Whitney Jr. / People’s World (New York)
Addressing 350,000 people on Jan. 12, Sheinbaum promised, “We (Mexico) will not return to the neoliberal model; we will not return to the regime of corruption and privileges, we will not let the decadence of the past return, where we governed for a few. We will continue with … the maxim ‘For the good of all, [but] first the poor.’”
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Palestine in the Irish Parliament
A blistering row over speaking time in the Dublin parliament has frustrated the new government’s attempt to approve its revamped political agenda, including a controversial plan to dishonour its pre-election promises on the issue of Palestine.
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Syria’s Delayed Revolution
Asef Bayat / Al-Jumhuriya (Berlin)
The claim that recent developments in Syria have from the very beginning been part of a plan orchestrated by foreign powers does not appear to reflect the reality. There is no doubt, however, that the current situation has created a relative vacuum in the power structure, which foreign entities such as Israel and Turkey are exploiting to try to create new territorial realities.
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Beyond the Fragments: A Breakthrough Text
Rachel Collett and Alfie Steer / Society for the Study of Labour History (Newcastle)
Earlier this year, a one-day conference was held to mark 45 years since the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. Co-authored by Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal and Hilary Wainwright, the book argued that the Women’s Liberation Movement offered a unique insight for socialist organising at the end of the 1970s.
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Political Tensions Rise at Joe Slovo Commemoration
Siyabonga Sithole / IOL (Cape Town)
Amid chants of ‘we do not want the GNU (Government of National Unity)’, the relationship between the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance found itself under the microscope during the South African Communist Party’s commemoration of Joe Slovo’s legacy at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto.
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Russia: Post-Soviet Antiwar Left
Anti-War Left Émigré Debate Pavel Kuznetsov / Links (Sydney)
Small Actions Against an Angry Machine Maria Lakhina / Minds of the Movement (Washington DC)
Russian Asylum Seekers in US Prisons Ilya Yashin / Meduza (Riga)
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International Labor Leader Looks Ahead
Luc Triangle / International Labor Organization (Geneva)
Luc Triangle, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shares his insights about the challenges and opportunities for the trade union movement in 2025. Mr Triangle expresses also his expectations from the International Labour Conference to be held in June 2025 and the second world summit for social development in November 2025.
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Serbia’s Student Protests
Nemanja Drobnjak / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Portside note: Serbian prime minister Miloš Vučević stepped down this week in response to growing anti-government protests. Read more here.
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Workers Get Political in Indonesia
Kirsty Hoban / Inside Indonesia (Melbourne)
A flurry of political activity is something new for the factory workers of Bekasi. They finally have someone to vote for, because leaders of Federasi Serikat Pekerja Metal Indonesia (FSPMI, Federation of Metal Workers’ Union) are standing as candidates at the district, provincial and national level.
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