The background to the elections of 16 November.

“Demanding an immediate cease-fire for Gaza has become the global movement's central driving priority.”

As Sudan sinks into a humanitarian crisis as a result of the generals' war, civilian organisations are beginning to take shape.

“Once again, in the Spanish labyrinth, class contradictions and positions and identities on the national question are intertwined.”

“The victory of the actors' contract and women's triumph over abortion access demonstrate a revival of both the labor and social movements.”

“Chad is the perfect illustration of the double standards of the French authorities on the question of democracy in Africa.”

“The discourse on closing borders only serves to maintain an increasingly authoritarian and police power, playing on division and racism.”

“The revolution was strong enough to oust President Saleh from power. But there was no question for US and also French imperialism, or the neighbouring Saudi monarchy, or the old Yemeni military-tribal reactionary forces, of letting the revolution rule. ”

“It's our duty to demonstrate our solidarity en masse, to put pressure on our government to say: ‘Stop this situation'.”

“This attitude is accompanied by heavy repression of all organisations and individuals who criticise the Israeli government.”

“The answer to the question of “migrants” is not only measured in the “humanitarian”" field. For the economy of Italian capitalism, the possibility of exploiting a workforce that can be blackmailed because it is “irregular” is an absolutely non-negligible factor of profit. This is the source of the constant opposition to any hypothesis of regularization of migratory flows.”

“Much work still remains to be done to build a working-class and popular centre of struggle against despotism and imperialism and to overcome the dominant sectarianism in radical left organizations in Morocco and the region.”

“Workers felt economically cheated, alienated from their jobs and their unions, and deeply demoralized. Now the UAW has vindicated the strike as labor's most important weapon.”

“Fleeing to neighbouring countries is not a solution: nearly half a million people live in Chad's camps with difficulties in accessing water, food and medical care.”

“And these movements are becoming increasingly politicized. These are movements that came into being with the aim of responding to the demands of the moment. And as they progress, they discover that there is a bigger problem, that there is an outdated political system that needs to be confronted.”

“The civilian population of Gaza is paying a colossal price for having dared to defy Israeli colonialism. What the Israeli army has been committing for a month now belongs in the category of crimes against humanity.”

“We call on the international media to stop pitting Palestinians and Ukrainians against each other, where hierarchies of suffering perpetuate racist rhetoric and dehumanize those under attack.”

Marc-Henri Reckinger, painter emeritus from Luxembourg, died on 31 August at the age of 83. He was a committed artist who openly claimed to be a Trotskyist.

“Even if the extreme right comes to power, it is essential that it does so within a framework of broad democratic mobilisation that is the support point for the social and political battles that are to come. Nothing is more important right now.”

“Chicomuselo, and many other many towns in Chiapas, have become towns without authorities, where the inhabitants live in dread, in silence, in fear of the permanent surveillance that weighs on them, as organized crime has people videotaping and taking pictures of people who meet up with others or talk to each other.”