As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
Venezuela and Black liberation
FIONA SIM sees the Venezuelan anti-fascist and anti-imperialist initiatives as offering hope to the rest of the world
BY POPULAR ACCLAIM: Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro arrives at the
Teresa Carreno Theatre in
Caracas to deliver his annual
address, January 15
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
IN EARLY January 2025, over 2,000 international delegates gathered in Caracas, Venezuela for the first ever World Anti-fascist Festival. The festival was one of the major directives of the first International Antifascist Congresses held just months prior.
Guests included government ministers and leaders of the Cuban and South African communist parties. The platform was an opportunity for Venezuela’s re-elected president, Nicolas Maduro, to place the country’s Bolivarian revolution in the context of the global fight against fascism, racism and imperialism.
The leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution have correctly identified fascism as the next great battle to win and have mobilised key activists and influencers in the joint struggles against imperialism, colonialism, and fascism from Africa, Asia, Latin America and even Europe.
In bringing these groups together in Venezuela against all the odds of sanctions, it is an act of defiance against the northern hegemon of the US.
Similar stories
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO
BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond