Join Mansa as she sits down with Comrade Philipp from our German group, Spartakist-Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SpAD), and supporter Toralf Endruweit, to discuss the political dynamics behind the recent German elections. Though the centre held, the AfD emerged as the clear victor in terms of doubling its support. Comrades explain what is fuelling this, why the left has it all upside down with Die Linke, and the tasks facing communists and the working class. Toralf shares his experience running as a candidate in Hamburg under the ticket of the Maoist MLPD, and the sentiment amongst workers regarding the left.

See the latest issue of Spartakist, the paper of the SpAD here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/spk/228/umbruch

Toralf's campaign: https://iclfi.org/pubs/spk/228/bundestag-a 

On the Ukraine war: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/de/33/ukraine; https://iclfi.org/pubs/spk/228/ukraine-krieg

The crisis of Germany's Liberal Order: A communist response, https://iclfi.org/spartacist/de/33/antwort  

And lastly, the debate with the MLPD and RCIT on the class character of China (in German) here: https://iclfi.org/deu/events/2025-china 

Subscribe to the SpAD's paper here: https://iclfi.org/deu 

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Join Mansa as she sits down with Australian comrades Oskar and Chris to discuss why the hell noone is talking about Australia, the delusional bubble of the ruling class, the coming elections, and what workers should do. 

Read their election supplement "Bury Labour, Vote Socialist" here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/rb/2025-elex/labor

Subscribe to Red Battler here: https://iclfi.org/aus

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Join Mansa as she discusses the Canadian elections with Angie, editor of Workers Tribune, the English-language paper of our group in Canada and Quebec (TLQC). As Canada goes to the polls, liberal Carney is set to win on the back of a huge wave of "Team Canada" national unity. Angie explains what's behind the national unity, why Carney will capitulate, and why it's only the working class that can stand up to Trump. 

Read the election statement here: 

https://iclfi.org/pubs/wt/2025-elex

Canadian capitalism will cave: https://iclfi.org/pubs/wt/2025-tariffs 

Subscribe to Workers Tribune here: https://iclfi.org/can/en 

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Join Mansa as she sits down with Prof Jacob Zumoff in the Prometheus Research Library (PRL) in New York to talk about what the PRL is and why leftists should care!

Get in touch on X @PRL_library or [email protected]

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Join Mansa and Comrade Victor from the Mexican group of the Spartacist League (GEM) as they discuss the situation in Mexico as Trump moves to subjugate the country even more. Can the popularly elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum, offer a real answer to these attacks? Victor explains the dynamics of the domestic situation and the cracks in national unity behind her, and how  workers and peasants in Mexico lead the fight to defend their livelihoods and their nation against imperialism! 

The latest issue of El Antiimperialista that we discussed can be found here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/ai/3/defenderos 

Read and subscribe to El Antiimperialista here: https://iclfi.org/mex

Join their next public event on 17 May if you are in Mexico!  https://iclfi.org/mex/events/2025-trump

Follow GEM on X and Insta @GEM_LCI, Facebook @GEM.LCI2

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Mansa talks with Comrades Anna and Ozan to discuss the recent developments in Türkiye and Öcalan's call on the PKK to surrender its arms. In making sense of these questions, we inevitably end up discussing Kemalism and why it's an obstacle to advance the interests of the Turkish masses, why the strategy of the Kurdish liberation struggle led to this dead-end and the need for Kurdish fighters to reject this betrayal. All of this requires understanding, in comrade Anna's words, that the main enemy of the world proletariat and the main force responsible for destroying the region and sowing divisions is U.S. imperialism.

Read the articles we discuss in the talk below:

Türkiye: Down With Erdoğan! Down With NATO!

https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1184/turkie

Öcalan, Rojava: No to the Betrayal!

https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1184/ocalan 

Only anti-imperialism can unite the peoples of Syria

https://iclfi.org/pubs/wh/255/syria

Watch Comrade Anna debate Jan Norden of the Internationalist Group (LFI) on permanent revolution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxGhd5rwck&t=583s 

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A special episode where we bring you a presentation by Comrade Vincent to an international meeting of the International Communist League. Its purpose is to take stock, clarify our understanding of world events, and pose the tasks of revolutionaries within this changing context. This presentation is based on a memorandum of the ICL which will be published in the coming days in Spartacist, our theoretical journal. Get in touch to share your opinions, agreements and disagreements at @SpartacistICL, or [email protected]!

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Join Mansa as she talks to the National Chairperson of the Spartacist League US about the nature of the Trump presidency, what's in store for the working class and the oppressed, and why the Marxist left needs to wake up!! This discussion is based on articles in the latest issue of Workers Vanguard, which listeners can read/download/subscribe to here: https://iclfi.org/usa 

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Join Mansa as she takes listeners through another key article from Women and Revolution, this time discussing what's holding back progress for women in the poor nations, and why opposition to imperialism must be at the heart of any strategy to advance the conditions for women in oppressed countries.

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Join host Mansa and author of the "Trans Liberation: Liberal betrayals, Marxist answers," as we discuss the article and tackle the major questions confronting the trans movement: why is it facing such attacks? What's the problem with the existing debates? And what is the task of communist regarding trans liberation? 

You can read the article here: https://iclfi.org/pubs/wr/46/trans

To hell with the sports ban! https://iclfi.org/pubs/wr/46/sports 

Let trans kids decide! https://iclfi.org/pubs/wr/46/kids

Subscribe to Spartacist here! https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/subscribe 

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