- Iran on the Edge
- Venezuela: The Hour of Perplexity
- The End of Rules-Based Authority
- Left Alliances Oppose US Invasion
- Kurds Resist Syria
- Critique of La France Insoumise
- Colombian Candidate Speaks
- Asia Pacific Left Meeting
- Greenland on the Hook
- UK’s Antifascist Beacon Gerry Gable 1937-2026
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Iran on the Edge
Helyeh Doutaghi / Progressive International
The Association of Trade Unions of Bushehr Refinery Workers (ATUBRW) is the institutional backbone of working-class sovereignty in Iran. The union articulates a politics in which workers’ demands are inseparable from resisting imperial domination and advancing collective emancipation.
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Venezuela: The Hour of Perplexity
Omar Vázquez Heredia / Venezuela Voices
In the short term, Venezuela’s future will depend on Trump’s armed threats and the ability of the acting president to obtain and maintain the support of the military and police apparatus. We are still far from the moment when the Venezuelan people, in the exercise of their sovereignty, can freely decide their future in national elections in which all political currents can participate on equal terms.
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The End of Rules-Based Authority
• New World Disorder Juan Luis Manfredi / The Conversation (Melbourne)
• Murder Inc Forrest Hylton / London Review of Books
• Next In Line Oliver Pieper / Deutsche Welle (Berlin)
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Left Alliances Oppose US Invasion
• Party of the European Left (Brussels)
• La Via Campesina (Bagnolet, France)
• The Left in the EP (Brussels)
• Communist Parties Joint Statement / Solidnet
• Progressive Alliance (Berlin)
• Fourth International / International Viewpoint (Paris)
• Progressive International
• Indian Left Parties / NDTV (New Delhi)
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Kurds Resist Syria
Rudaw (Erbil, Kurdistan Region)
The administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday condemned the characterization of the seizure of Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods by Damascus and its affiliated forces as a “victory.” The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES) described an “uneven battle” that involved “the use of all kinds of heavy weaponry against simple individual arms.”
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Critique of La France Insoumise
Adam Novak / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
The exchange between philosopher Frédéric Lordon and La France Insoumise raises questions central to ecosocialist strategy internationally: whether electoral left formations can genuinely challenge capitalism, and what distinguishes rhetorical anticapitalism from the real thing.
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Colombian Candidate Speaks
Iván Cepeda and Pablo Castaño / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Iván Cepeda is a senator for the Pacto Histórico, the left-wing alliance that backed Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s election, and its candidate to succeed him as president in the general elections of May and June 2026. A human rights defender, Cepeda was involved in the judicial process that ended in the initial conviction of former rightwing president Álvaro Uribe.
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Asia Pacific Left Meeting
Markela Panegyres / Green Left (Sydney)
The Socialism 2025 Conference, held in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, on November 15–16, brought together about 200 socialists and activists from across the Asia-Pacific. The Parti Sosialis Malaysia (Malaysian Socialist Party, PSM) has hosted the event annually since 2005, and it has become one of the largest gatherings of socialists and progressives in the region.
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Greenland on the Hook
Trine Pertou Mach and Pelle Dragsted / Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Berlin)
Trump displays a remarkable ignorance (or simple disregard of facts) when he talks about Greenland, one example is claiming that the majority of Greenlanders want to become US citizens. They don’t, especially seeing how their fellow Inuit are treated in Alaska — and not even if Trump offers to buy them off.
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UK’s Antifascist Beacon Gerry Gable 1937-2026
Andy Bell / Searchlight (Essex)
The death of Searchlight’s founder Gerry Gable at the age of 88 marks the passing of a man without whom modern British anti-fascism would scarcely be recognisable. For more than sixty years, he stood at the centre of the struggle against fascism and the extreme right, as a relentless organiser, investigator and strategist.
