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At the UN General Assembly, European leaders focused on Russia and arms race while offering no meaningful action on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at UNGA. Source: UN At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), European leaders cast the European Union as a beacon of acceptance and stability. European Council President António Costa, for example, claimed the EU is “a project of peace, of reconciliation, of social justice.” Similar rhetoric was echoed by French and other officials, who spoke of Europe’s “concrete” contributions to building a just and stable…

The Marx International On September 22, 2025, thousands of people joined a general strike in Italy in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle. In one of the largest mobilizations in recent history, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Italy in response to a call for a 24-hour general strike called by the Union of Base Unions (USB), which brings together public and private sector unions. USB, along with other organizations such as Cub, Adl, and Sgb, called the general strike in support of the Palestinian people under…

The  working-class movement, both in the U.S. and abroad, is in the midst of  a deep ideological crisis. Its outcome will determine the future of  civilization, or whether civilization itself will survive.   Over a century ago, Lenin observed that imperialism is “reaction all  down the line.” Indeed, reaction — class oppression, racism, sexism, and  the rise of neo-fascist movements — has reached new heights. In this  situation, liberal, petty bourgeois radical, and fake populist MAGA  ideology (to say nothing of right wing ideology) have led at best to  confusion and…

By Don Samantha – The Marx France The CGT (General Confederation of Trade Unions) reported that more than one million people marched across France on 18 of september during the mobilization against the Macron-Lecornu austerity plan called by the eight major unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, FSU, and Solidaires). Despite intimidation and repression unleashed by the government with 80,000 police and gendarmes, drones, armored vehicles, and water cannons, thousands of people mobilized across the country. InLyon, the demonstration drew between 14,000 and 20,000 people, against whom the government used…

Introduction: The Fall of an Authoritarian Order Bangladesh in 2025 is living through one of the most turbulent moments since its birth in 1971. The collapse of Sheikh Hasina’s long rule was not a peaceful retirement, as liberal commentators in the West might suggest, but the product of a mass revolt against authoritarian neoliberalism. For more than a decade, the Awami League perfected the machinery of repression: rigged elections, a domesticated judiciary, violent policing of opposition, and wholesale capture of civil institutions. Yet beneath the facade of “stability” lay deep…