The internationalists

As we go to press, the impact of Trump’s “war of choice” against Iran is making itself felt. His continual boasts that striking Iran "extremely hard" would finish the job "very fast" are increasingly hollow. They may help calm “the markets” but are scary news for the world’s population (including those Iranian workers who have been resisting the Islamic regime for years).

The US-Israeli attack on Iran began at 9:45am IRST (1:15am EST) on 28 February 2026. The motives are well known. They stem from the refusal of Khamenei’s regime to accept Trump's demands for a negotiated solution to the crisis and the fact that the intervention, which had already been planned (otherwise, the enormous deployment of military forces, including two aircraft carriers at the...

On April 13, a massive strike erupted in Noida, India, drawing the participation of an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 workers. This overwhelming show of force by the working class brought the entire industrial zone to a complete standstill. Countless factory workers walked out in unison, deeply frustrated by the crushing reality of brutal 12-hour shifts and starvation wages.

A hundred years on, the general strike of 1926 remains a mythical event – in the face of relatively low levels of class struggles in recent decades, many today look upon it with the rose-tinted glasses of misplaced nostalgia. Arguably the largest industrial dispute in Britain's history, it lasted only ten days (nine if counting from 4 May) before being called off by the union leadership.

(We publish an article by a Chilean comrade on Kast's rise to the presidency of the republic, a bridge between the Pinochet-led right of the past and contemporary fascist-style populism.) · On 11 March, José Antonio Kast was inaugurated president of Chile. Within hours he had signed six emergency decrees, and whatever illusions remained about the post-dictatorship settlement were disposed of...