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Macron relaunches nuclear weapons

Dominique Boury — 2026-04-09T06:12:30Z

By announcing an “advanced deterrence” and a strengthening of the nuclear arsenal, French president Emannuel Macron is reviving the logic of an arms race and turning his back on disarmament policies. On 2 March, at the Île Longue operational base, in front of the last nuclear submarine, the Téméraire, Macron announced a decisive turning point in the doctrine of the use of nuclear weapons.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France, Ecology and the Environment, Nuclear power

Kanaky: the era of colonies must end

Cathy Billard — 2026-04-08T07:34:56Z

The Senate vote on the constitutional bill concerning New Caledonia marks a new stage in the erosion of the Kanak people's right to self-determination. Behind an institutional veneer, the government is pursuing a strategy of strong-arming, which must be stopped by mobilization.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France, Kanaky

Trump's barbarous war on Iran, part of a long history of war crimes

Dan La Botz — 2026-04-07T05:22:33Z

President Donald Trump's war on Iran is barbarous, cruel, vicious, undertaken and carried out without a bit of concern for the millions of human beings it is affecting in Iran, in the region, and throughout the world. The nature of the war was revealed on the first day, 28 February , when the United States hit a school in Minab and killed an estimated 175 people, 100 of them children. Attacks on civilians are a war crime, all too common a war crime in all modern wars. Now Trump is threatening an even greater war crime.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / United States (USA), Iraq, Vietnam, Iran

Death penalty by hanging for Palestinians

Osama Abu Rabee — 2026-04-06T05:17:39Z

The Israeli colonial state did not need a new law to kill Palestinians. Yet, on Monday, 30 March 2026, the Israeli parliament passed a law establishing the death penalty, by hanging, for Palestinians — and only for Palestinians.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Palestine, Israel

Environment: Cost of fuel, what ecosocialist responses?

NPA-A Environment commission — 2026-04-05T05:16:25Z

The war is fuelling the profits of fossil fuel companies while aggravating the ecological and social crisis. Faced with exploding prices and organized dependence on all oil, it is urgent to impose immediate measures while breaking with fossil capitalism.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment

Three general characteristics of the new era of fascism

Ivan Drury Zarin — 2026-04-04T06:51:27Z

Fascism has been, over the last decade, and especially more recently, an object of vigorous debate on the left. But, as a long editorial from the Salvage collective bemoaned about debates over what to make of Russia's war on Ukraine, much of this debate has been stuck in the ditch of historical analogy. Is Trumpism more like Mussolini's or Hitler's fascism? When we stack up all the measures of rights violated and attacked, does the far right today pass the test of comparison with major fascist events of the 20th century?

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Brazil, Antifascism

Together against the far right march breaks records

Echo Fortune, Terry Conway — 2026-04-03T06:34:30Z

The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Britain

France: Local elections create springboard for left division

Léon Crémieux — 2026-04-02T09:17:02Z

Local elections were held in France on 15 March (first round) and 22 (second round). The confusion that has emerged, one year before the presidential election, is a sign of a fragmentation of the central bloc and the right, which is likely to produce a shift towards the far right and, in the face of this, a splintering of the forces of the Nouveau Front populaire (New Popular Front - NFP) which compromises the construction of a unitary alternative.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / France

Zionist expansionism in Lebanon seizes upon Hezbollah as a pretext

Gilbert Achcar — 2026-04-01T16:18:00Z

Never had a military initiative of the Lebanese Hezbollah (literally, Party of God) been so much repudiated in Lebanon as its decision on March 2 to launch rockets across the country's southern border with the Israeli state, in retaliation against the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This opening salvo was immediately seized upon by the Zionist state as a pretext to launch a long-premeditated invasion of southern Lebanon.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Israel, Lebanon

Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil

Women of Centelhas — 2026-04-01T12:20:09Z

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America.

- Feminism / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Features