Category: International

Only a Government of Workers and the Poor Armed with an Independent Socialist Programme Can Guarantee a Genuine Democracy and Satisfy the Aspirations of the Guinean Working Masses By Abbey Trotsky Guinea’s military junta, led by General Mamady Doumbouya, have arranged for a constitutional referendum to be held on 21 September 2025, ostensibly to replace the constitution adopted in 2020.

CAN THE STRUGGLE BE TAKEN FURTHER? Yet again, Nepal is witnessing another historic movement; the days when decades happened. Thousands of protesters, mainly young people, took to the streets to protest against the ban on social media platforms by Prime Minister Sharma Oli. The ban on social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, etc., was imposed on September 4. For

Economic protests turned into a struggle against oppression and for security What many young Kenyans saw as the third political revolution in Kenya against a ruling class whose trail of blood and corruption has been witnessed for decades is unfortunately fading before their eyes. The economic situation in a country suffering from a crushing debt burden, still as high as

Trump’s decision to join in the Israeli state’s bombing war on Iran – fundamentally in the pursuit of regional dominance by US imperialism alongside Israeli capitalism and other Western imperialisms – clearly marks a new turning point in the already bloodthirsty warfare that has gripped increasing areas of the Middle East. It is widely seen as a gamble both internationally

Only a Workers’ and Poor People’s Government Armed with a Socialist Programme Can Usher in a New Dawn By Abbey Trotsky In recent years, the Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger to parts of Chad and Guinea, has witnessed a growing wave of anti-imperialist sentiment which has expressed through a series of military takeovers

On 27 January, the March 23 Movement, backed by the Rwandan government, announced the capture of the Congolese city of Goma and on 17 February of Bukavu. These cities, both provincial capitals, sit on the Rwandan border. Their capture marks a dramatic escalation in the decades-old conflict. Life is again being turned upside down for the war-weary people of the

Protests have rocked Mozambique since ‘preliminary’ results of presidential and legislative elections held on 9 October declared the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) the winner. Mozambique can be added to the growing rollcall of neocolonial countries where the population has taken to the streets in open revolt. Since 2018, the masses have shaken the ruling classes to their core in

Mass protests in Kenya have forced the government to withdraw unpopular tax increases. These amounted to a massive attack on the living standards of the middle class, the working class, the poor and young people. On Tuesday, 26 June, a mass protest forced its way into parliament, setting it alight, and preventing the finance bill from being passed. Politicians had