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News from around the world by authors from the Socialist Party and co-thinkers internationally

Europe’s scorching heatwave – capitalist climate crisis intensifies

By Jake O’Brien “This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.” These are the words of Dr. Hans Henri

Jul 21, 2026

Anti-racism·Anti-war·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Far-right’s roots in capitalist chaos – no time to lose in the fight back

By Laura Fitzgerald “It’s too ridiculous to take seriously and too serious to be ridiculous”. In Naomi Klein’s latest best seller Doppelganger (2023), she returns frequently to this Philip Roth tidbit in grappling to sum up the conspiracy theory rightists and the

Mar 1, 2024

Anti-war·Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Palestine solidarity·World News

All eyes on Rafah as Gaza genocide set to escalate

By James McCabe There is truth to the saying that you should “Judge people by their actions, not by their words”. Joe Biden has expressed belated concern for “exposed and vulnerable” Palestinian civilians, but his suspension of funding for UN aid agencies

Feb 23, 2024

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Ayodhya: Stop Modi’s Escalating Communal Violence!

By ISA India Following the completely undemocratic suspension of 141 MP’s and the ramming through of changes to India’s penal law (the BNS, BNSS, and BSA) and Telecommunications Act, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has mounted its crown jewel of communalism in the

Feb 17, 2024

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Pakistani elections: Vote of no confidence for army and its politicians

By Geert Cool, LSP (our sister organisation in Belgium) Despite all the undemocratic measures and fraud, Pakistan’s powerful army did not get the election result it wanted. A ban on former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from standing under its

Feb 16, 2024

LGBTQ·News & Analysis·World News

Brianna Ghey murder one year on: Never again – fight for trans liberation

By Ollie Bell It has been one year since the tragic murder of Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old trans girl who was killed in Cheshire, England, by two teenagers. Various candlelit vigils were held to mourn across the UK and in Dublin, Ireland

Feb 13, 2024

Environment·World News

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

By Miranda Stewart At a time when reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever, a recent report makes clear that NATO military spending targets are pushing the world in the opposite direction. The report, ‘Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military

Feb 9, 2024

Anti-racism·World News

Germany: Historic mass movement against right-wing deportation plans

By SAV, our sister organisation in Germany On the weekend of 19–21 January, 1.5 million people protested against the far right in the largest wave of demonstrations in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. 350,000 in Berlin, 130,000 in Hamburg,

Feb 3, 2024

ICJ genocide ruling: a blow to Israeli State & imperialist allies, but fails to call for ceasefire

By Conor Payne On 26 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague gave its interim verdict on the case taken by the South African government against the State of Israel for the crime of genocide against the Palestinians in

Jan 31, 2024

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Repression and resistance in the Occupied West Bank

On Monday, 8 January, Israeli forces shot dead three unarmed young Palestinians in the town of Talkurem in the Occupied West Bank. Preventing paramedics from reaching them to provide treatment, they callously allowed them to bleed to death. Subsequently, an Israeli military

Jan 12, 2024

South African government charges the Israeli regime with genocide

By James McCabe When analysing past genocides, historians often debate how much public awareness existed as those genocides unfolded. Palestinians have noted over the past weeks that never before has a genocide been live-streamed to the world as this genocide in Gaza

Jan 11, 2024

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