Supporters with Palestinian flags take part in a demonstration on the sideline of a Europa League football match between Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam Thursday.Credit: Jeroen Jumelet/ AFP An ugly, criminal pogrom against Israeli soccer fans took place in Amsterdam on Thursday. Similar pogroms, carried out by settlers, take place almost daily in the West Bank. The pogroms in Hawara, for example, surpassed in their scope and violence even Holocaust II in Amsterdam. The (…)

AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS of Conservative Party austerity, scandal, incompetence and chaos, the Labour Party swept Britain's (aka United Kingdom, UK) July 4th general parliamentary election, winning 412 of the House of Commons' 650 seats.(1) In what amounted to a punishment for the wreckage that the Tories, as British Conservatives are known, left behind, they lost a staggering 251 seats, ending up with just 121 Members of Parliament (MPs). Labour, on the other hand, gained an impressive 211 (…)

THESE COMMENTS BY former Sandinista militant and now exiled dissident Dora María Téllez, are excerpted from an interview by Carlos F. Chamorro on the Esta Semana program broadcast July 21 on CONFIDENCIAL's YouTube channel. Téllez, an historian and political activist, analyzed president Daniel Ortega's speech and the country's political situation on the 45th anniversary of ousting the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship. “[The regime has] an immense fear of any activity that they cannot control. (…)

Palestinians and their allies must build on down-ballot wins, while recognizing the limitations of electoral politics in the face of Israel's genocidal campaign. A sign congratulating Former President Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election in central Jerusalem, November 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) In the weeks leading up to Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, I exchanged daily voice messages with a close relative in Lebanon who had fled her home soon after (…)

“What's happening to you?” That's the question Yoana Gonen posed, in her recent column for Haaretz, to the so-called “leftists” vowing to vote for Israel's right-wing former prime minister, Naftali Bennett. The fact that such a trend exists is bewildering, but the answer to Gonen's question is clear. What is happening to these “leftists” is the same thing that's happening to all of Israeli society: a profound and accelerating slide toward fascism. Nine months into a war with no end in (…)

New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France's most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention. In 2009 the IIRE published the collection Strategies of Resistance + ‘Who are the Trotskyists'. In 2025, fifteen years after the passing of our comrade, we want to publish a new, significantly augmented edition, collecting essays on history, politics and strategy. ‘Who are the (…)

L'affaire Errejón a suscité un vaste débat public dans la société et, bien entendu, au sein d'un mouvement féministe très diversifié. Dans cette interview, Justa Montero, féministe et engagée depuis longtemps dans le mouvement social, membre du Conseil consultatif de Viento sur, nous donne son point de vue sur ce débat très nécessaire et en même temps, comme elle le dit elle-même, complexe et aux aspects multiples. Viento Sur : L'accusation d'agression sexuelle portée contre Iñigo Errejón (…)

La manifestation du 9 novembre, annoncée depuis la semaine dernière, représente le carton rouge brandi par une grande partie de la population face à la gestion par le gouvernement valencien de la tragédie de la DANA et des inondations. La manifestation, annoncée comme silencieuse et pacifique, a réussi à rassembler 150 000 personnes bien au-delà de la ville de Valence et de Horta Sur, avec des bus et une participation en provenance de tout le Pays Valencien et d'autres régions d'Espagne, en (…)

La dévastation de la Dana (Depresion aislada en niveles alto ou Goutte froide) a créé un terrible désarroi chez de nombreuses personnes qui ont tout perdu, une situation qui a été exploitée par l'extrême droite pour brandir le spectre de l'insécurité citoyenne. Photo : Utiel après la dana. Jaime Pérez Rivero. La dana, qui a particulièrement frappé la province de Valence, constitue d'ores et déjà la catastrophe climatique la plus meurtrière du XXIe siècle en Espagne. Une tragédie qui a (…)