International Viewpoint

Our Support for the Open Letter: To Iran’s political prisoners As migrants and refugees in diaspora and in exile from Iran, who have our loved ones suffering in the Iranian state’s prisons and facing its gallows, we salute the signatories of the open letter to “Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’”, published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026. With us stand comrades and organisations from across the world who see this struggle as bound up with their own.

Ukrainians have been fighting against occupation since 2014 when Russia occupied Crimea. Many more have been involved fighting since Russia’s all-out invasion, which started in February 2022. At the time of the all-out invasion in 2022, many thought Ukraine would soon be occupied, Zelensky in exile and a puppet government installed. This did not happen. The Ukrainian people fought back. It is increasingly clear there is no easy path to victory for Putin.

Jason Arday is dead. The 41 year old Black academic from Cambridge was hounded by the British press for the last few weeks with accusations of plagiarism and outlandish stories about his personal life. The nation was gripped, intrigued about it, forgetting there was a human at the centre of it, someone with a life to live. Someone whose only possible ‘crime’ was academic plagiarism. The entire story came about because of one racist fanatic, Nathan Cofnas.

But amid a deeply unpopular ruinous war, and frightening insecurity for tens of millions of Americans fearing for their future, this year’s November 2026 elections are unpredictably unpredictable. The question goes well beyond whether the Democrats — and which Democrats — might overturn the narrow Republican Congressional majorities.

Anticapitalistas on the Forest Fires of Summer 2026 Once again, we face a summer plagued by fire. Tens of thousands of hectares, earlier than in any other year, have already burned, and a devastating season is expected in terms of forest loss, fertile soil destruction, and above all, loss of life. - read article... Finally the WSF has been authorised and will start today. - read article...

Fifty years ago, the student uprisings of June 1976 radically altered the terrain of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. They laid the foundations for the mass resistance of the mid-1980s, as they opened up new possibilities for solidarity between students, workers, parents, and teachers, and galvanised nationwide resistance beyond Soweto. Until today, the events of June 1976 remain a global symbol of resistance to apartheid and genocide beyond South Africa.

Sometimes, tens of thousands of people take to the streets – in a country with only 2.5 million people. What began as a mobilization against environmental degradation has become a questioning of the system. The Albanian national flag and KLA symbols fluttered in the wind alongside American flags and flamingos. What we are talking about here is nature, corruption, capitalism. It all started because of a piece of coastline.

Anticapitalistas on the Forest Fires of Summer 2026 Once again, we face a summer plagued by fire. Tens of thousands of hectares, earlier than in any other year, have already burned, and a devastating season is expected in terms of forest loss, fertile soil destruction, and above all, loss of life. - read article... Finally the WSF has been authorised and will start today. - read article...

This intervention therefore marked a major turning point in Venezuela’s recent history. The vice-president of the republic and other officials effectively accepted the situation and submitted to the will of Donald Trump and his administration. The armed aggression perpetrated by the US military and the submission of the authorities in Caracas have enabled Washington to take control of the country’s oil exports and seize the accounts into which the revenue from these exports is paid.

The far right is advancing worldwide at an uneven but decisive pace. It is not invincible, as evidenced by Viktor Orbán’s recent electoral defeat in Hungary, but neither is it merely a temporary phenomenon. In the last European Parliament elections, if its various political factions are combined, the far right became the second largest force in Parliament, just one seat behind the traditional right, represented by the European People’s Party.