Politics

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 contradictions: skyrocketing inequality, dispossession of farmers from their land, garment workers trapped in global supply-chain exploitation, and a suffocating atmosphere of fear. The uprising of 2024, led...

Cutting off diplomatic ties with Israel has already been approved by the Parliament of South Africa. Our elected representatives in Parliament voted on Tuesday 21 November, 2023, by 248 to 91 to close the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria and suspend diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. But there has been no action from the Executive. We therefore call on President Ramphosa and Minister Lamola to cut off all diplomatic ties, including shutting the embassy. There can be no ‘normal’ relations with a genocidal and apartheid regime. This is entirely within your control; act now! Why is this important? We call on you, President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, Minister of International Relations and Cooperations, Ronald Lamola, and the Government of South Africa, to cut all diplomatic ties with Is...

Report (with pictures) by the RCIT France, 10 September 2025, www.thecommunists.net Preface from the Editorial Board: Below we publish a report from our comrades of the RCIT France. It is evident that the political situation in France in characterised by a deep crisis of the Macron regime and the strengthening of left-wing as well as right-wing forces. It is the responsibility of left-wing parties and trade unions to organise a determined response by preparing for a massive general strike against the capitalist austerity policy and to bring down the Macron regime. In order to push back the reactionary RN and other right-wing racist forces, socialists need to advocate the creation of an authentic workers government which decisively breaks with the capitalist system and open...