- For the Life and Dignity of the People of Iran
- Stormfront Mexico
- Rojava: Responding to the Emergency
- Kenya’s Disability and Labor Movements are Uniting
- Palestine News
- 50k Out to Defend Left Cultural Center in Turin
- Perspectives on Sri Lanka’s Left Government
- Bolivia is Not for Sale
- Nationalism, Populism and the Left
- The Historical Force of Stalingrad
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For the Life and Dignity of the People of Iran
Zapatista Army of National Liberation et al. / Enlace Zapatista
There are those who, from the outside, look upwards and not downwards: those who justify the Iranian regime in the name of a supposed anti-imperialism, ignoring that this same regime applies logics of occupation, apartheid, plunder and neoliberalism against its people; and those who promote reactionary, authoritarian and dependent alternatives.
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Stormfront Mexico
• Thousands Oppose “Donroe Doctrine” Tamara Pearson / Truthout (Sacramento)
• Oil, Trump, Cuba Megan Messerly / Politico (Washington DC)
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Rojava: Responding to the Emergency
• A Political Assessment Ali Cicek / Academy of Political Modernity (Carouge, Switzerland)
• The Long Road Ahead Eve Morris-Gray / The Amargi (Leipzig)
• Call for Solidarity Women Defend Rojava / RiseUp4Rojava
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Kenya’s Disability and Labor Movements are Uniting
Joe Buckley and Moses Chege / Global Labour Column (Johannesburg)
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) and the United Disabled Persons of Kenya (UDPK), the umbrella organisation of people with disabilities in Kenya, have been united in the fight for decent work since 2021. Agriculture and the informal economy are where UDPK and COTU have been focusing their organising efforts.
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Palestine News
• Return of the Joint List Abed Abou Shhadeh / +972 (Tel Aviv)
• Gazans Condemn “New Gaza” Noor Alyacoubi / Palestine Chronicle
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50k Out to Defend Left Cultural Center in Turin
Thymo Nzk / Freedom (London)
More than 50,000 people from across Italy marched through the streets of Turin on Saturday (31 January) in a national demonstration following the eviction of the long-standing social centre Askatasuna on 18 December. The protest brought together a wide range of movements, including housing rights groups, student collectives from high schools and universities, and trade-union activists.
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Perspectives on Sri Lanka’s Left Government
Mark Johnson / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
One year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s historic election victory, assessments of Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power government reveal both convergence and sharp disagreement among left and progressive analysts. The NPP’s September 2024 presidential win and November parliamentary landslide—securing 159 of 225 seats—represented the first left-led government in Sri Lankan history.
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Bolivia is Not for Sale
Gabriel Rodríguez Garcia / NACLA (New York)
Bolivia’s cities and highways are witnessing another wave of mass demonstrations, roadblocks, hunger strikes, and assemblies. Once again, state policy was overturned by street politics, popular mandates, and vetoes. After the president's decree reoriented economic policy toward neoliberalism, 24 days of protests forced the government to back down.
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Nationalism, Populism and the Left
Théo Aiolfi and Thomás Zicman de Barros / Jacobin (Brooklyn)
Left populists across Europe have sometimes dampened their internationalism in an effort to reach broader audiences. This has produced little in the way of electoral success and often meant giving up a necessary fight against xenophobia.
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The Historical Force of Stalingrad
Tunç Türel / MRonline (New York)
Stalingrad marked the moment when the Nazi war machine ceased to advance and began, irreversibly, to bleed. The German offensive toward the Volga in the summer of 1942 was intended to secure oil resources, sever Soviet transport routes, and deliver a symbolic blow to the heart of the Soviet state. Instead, a protracted urban battle nullified Germany’s operational advantages.
