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Stop the Far Right: Mobilize to Elect Lula in the Runoff!
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted October 23, 2026
The first round of Brazil’s presidential election, on October 4, was marked by a resumption of the far right’s electoral offensive at the end of Lula’s third term. With 47.03% of the vote to Lula’s 45.16%, Flávio Bolsonaro led the first round, with an advantage of more than two million votes. The far right also advanced in Congress and in the states: Bolsonaro’s party won 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (out of 513) and became the leading force in the Senate.
The results confirm the…
The Rise of Democratic Socialists: Democratic Discontent
Kim Moody
Posted October 23, 2026
MUCH OF THIS article will focus on the Democratic Socialists of America and an analysis of DSA’s electoral perspectives and results going into the midterm elections.
While there are thousands of DSA members engaged in grassroots organizing in unions,…
Get Out the Vote Rallies
Posted October 22, 2026
ON OCTOBER 17, the fourth No Kings day, about 2500 events in all 50 states focused on getting out the vote for the midterm election scheduled for November 3. These included marches, rallies, cookouts and block parties. People arrived with diverse homemade signs and often in costume.
Crowd size ranged from a couple of dozen in small areas to hundreds in most cities. Smaller than previous events, the rallies encouraged voters and potential voters to turn out on or before election day.
Although different…
Introducing Peter Beinart
Alan Wald
Posted October 21, 2026
THE JOURNALIST AND editor Peter Beinart was invited to engage in a dialogue at the University of Michigan on October 19, 2026, on “Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and American Democracy.” The purpose was to “explore the intersection of law, humanity, morality, racism and bigotry and how we can use this knowledge to oppose the rise of fascism and dismantling of our civil rights and constitutionally protected freedoms.”…
A Month to Prepare for the General Strike
Kit Adam Wainer
Posted October 20, 2026
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 I attended my neighborhood meeting for planning the general strike in the Spanish state on November 11. I live in Barcelona and went to ithe meeting for the Sant Marti barri (neighborhood). The planning meeting was attended by a little over 100 people.
Sant Marti is a long group of smaller neighborhoods that runs east-west, north of the center of the city. It includes Poble Nou, once an industrial center and now a rapidly gentrifying….
The Trump-Putin Axis
Posted October 14, 2026
WHAT WAS EVIDENT to many observers from the onset of Donald Trump’s second presidency is now out in the open: Trump and Vladimir Putin are allies in Russia’s war to amputate and subjugate Ukraine. What’s in it for each of them in this gangster partnership?
For Putin, the goal is the end of Ukraine as an independent nation-state and the seizure of at least….
Melt ICE, Defend the Minneapolis 15
Marsha Rummel
Posted October 8, 2026
The Madison, Wisconsin, Free the 15 Defense Committee, along with local unions and community organizations, organized a showing of the touring documentary film “When Ice Melts” followed by a panel discussion on Sunday, October 4 at the Madison Labor Temple.
Over 100 people attended a potluck, watched the film, heard from a panel of activists and followed up with questions.
The panel consisted of the filmmaker Kip Hedges, Kieran Knutson CWA Local 7250 President in Minneapolis, Twin Cities educator…
French Students Mobilize — and Their Supporters Too!
NPA-A
Posted October 7, 2026
SECONDARY STUDENTS ARE taking action; the government is cracking down. The situation in the national education system has been deteriorating for years. Successive governments and various ministers, led by Blanquer
Labor Marching for the Minnesota 15
Randy Furst
Posted October 5, 2026
HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS, mostly union members, rallied and marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Oct. 3. The march was a show of support for 15 political activists who were indicted earlier this year by Donald Trump’s Justice Department for their organized opposition to the ICE assault on the Twin Cities known as Operation Metro Surge….
The Spark That Lit a Prairie Fire: Let’s Organise a Hot Autumn
Anticapitalistas
Posted September 30, 2026
ON WEDNESDAY, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid. Maricarmen is an 87-year-old woman whose rent was gradually increased by a vulture fund, until the fund decided it wanted the flat for new business ventures. In that sense, her case is not so unusual: in Spain,…
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Against the Current
- The Looming Election—The Editors
- The Paranoid Style in Pro-Israel Polemics—Alan Wald
- —Russian Reality Today–interviews with Kseniia Kagarlitskaya and Mikhail Lobanov
- Latin America: Patterns & Pendulum—Marc Becker
- The Growing Risk of Nuclear War—M.V. Ramana
- Conspiracy, Class & the American Empire—Youbin Kang
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