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Mansa sits down with Comrade Perrault to discuss a burning question for the revolutionary left: the popular front. As the right grows and sweeps various elections, the pressures on the left and workers organisations to make alliances with progressive bourgeois forces to keep the right out are only growing. But this is a dead-end; not only does the popular front not work, but it fuels the growth of the right, helping it to come back stronger. Revolutionaries must break the popular front! 

AfD's triumphant march - firewall in ruins. What to do? https://iclfi.org/pubs/spk/2026-afd-siegeszug (in German)

Zohran Mamdani and the DSA - How to avoid another situationship https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1186/zohran

Your Party: Ditch the liberals, win the workers! https://iclfi.org/pubs/wh/256/your-party

France: Popular front paves way for Le Pen https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/69/france

The fight against Modi - What next?  https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/69/modi

SL/US class series: United fronts yes, popular fronts no! https://iclfi.org/pubs/slus/2026-uf 

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Mansa is joined by Comrade Badr from the International Socialist Alternative (Revolutionary) to discuss, in broad strokes, the dynamics of the Middle East. Divided and ravaged by imperialism and its Zionist outpost, we discuss why anti-imperialism is key to unifying the region, but why this anti-imperialism must be rooted in the working masses, and why it must champion the rights of the national, religious and other minorities in order to succeed. 

Iran War - Prospects and Tasks https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/71

Marxists and Palestine - 100 years of failure https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/69/palestine

In defense of permanent revolution - For communist leadership of the anti-imperialist struggle! https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/68/permrev

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Mansa is joined by Rizwana Karim and Eibhlin to discuss the situation in Pakistan. While the military establishment and government courts Trump, the most popular leader of the country, Imran Khan, is behind bars at U.S. orders and unrest is rising.  From the mass uprising in Azad Kashmir to  skyrocketing inflation and political repression throughout the country, Pakistan is on knife's edge. Rizwana and Eibhlin discuss some of the internal dynamics, the Pakistan-U.S. relation, why socialists must champion the freedom of Imran Khan to lead the fight against imperialism, and the necessity to unite the nationalities in the country.

• South Asian Power Keg
• Pakistan - General strike to free political prisoners!
• For united class struggle defence to free political prisoners in Pakistan
• On the re-arrest of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha (Amnesty International)

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Mansa is joined by Comrade Philipp from Berlin to discuss the recent AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt, what it means and what drove the huge gains for the AfD. Since our recording (19 Sept), the AfD has done really well in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, all the while Merz and the CDU has tanked. Within this context, Berlin saw Die Linke's left-populist candidate win. What's going on in Germany, what is the general direction of travel of German politics, and what are the tasks of communists?

• Say no to the coalition with the SPD/Greens & Eralp's attack on Dahabflex!
• Berlin election 2026 - Vote DKP!
• Anti-Zionists and anti-imperialists in the primary!

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Mansa is joined by Comrades Brianna and Perrault to delve into how and why the Revolutionary Communist International has got it wrong on their attitude towards conducting trade union work, and why every revolutionary organisation, no matter how small, should be seeking to provide a real course of struggle for working people. A somewhat-windy but in-depth look at their article "Communists and the trade unions" 

• For an international revolutionary youth movement! 
• Fight for revolution, become a worker
• For revolutionary work in the trade unions

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Mansa is joined by Comrade Monica to discuss Puerto Rico. From student strikes to the water crisis and insane luxury resorts, every facet of life on the island is defined by colonial oppression. Monica explains why communists must champion the independence of Puerto Rico and merge the struggle with that of the working class against their common enemies! Fuera yanquis!

• Water Crisis - Workers should run Boriken!
• Make the fight against Escencia an anti-imperialist fight
• How to get the working class behind independence
• La Allianza - Like an umbrella in a hurricane
• Puerto Rico - For independence and socialism!

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Mansa brings you a powerful speech by Comrade Cairo to mark the end of Black August and to contribute to stirring up a much-needed discussion and debate in the left on how to break through the impasse of the struggle for black freedom and reignite it. 

• An article by comrades on what OPA is about, titled "Police brutality - How to get justice"

Follow the work of Open the Police Archives campaign at @opa_now on X and @OpenPoliceArchives on Youtube and Insta.

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Mansa brings you a very special episode with comrades Don A and Gene Herson, veteran Trotskyists and long-time leaders of the Spartacist League, who were instrumental in organizing and building a very successful labour-black mobilization to stop the Klan when it announced its march to Washington, DC for 27 November, 1982. We dive into the dynamics of this important event and discuss the political lessons for building the anti-fascist and anti-racist struggle today. 

The documentary footage of the 1982 DC anti-Klan mobilization will find its way to our Youtube soon - subscribe to our channel @Spartacist to get alerts!

Obituaries:

• Al Nelson (1936-2022) 
• Ed Kartsen (1953-2023)

Read More About the Anti-Klan Victory:

•  Workers Vanguard No. 319 (10 December 1982)
•  Young Spartacus No. 105 (December 1982/January 1983)

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Mansa brings you another and final presentation from the Sparts' 9th International Conference where Comrade Perrault presents an answer to the reason for the crisis of the left and a strategy for rebuilding it. This will soon appear online and in our theoretical journal, Spartacist.

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Mansa brings you the second main presentation from the Spart's 9th International Conference. Delivered by Comrade Vincent, this presentation presents our understanding of why the Fourth International failed, and what lessons to draw from the history of our movement to go forward in the pursuit of building a world party of socialist revolution.

• Successful Ninth International Conference of the ICL 

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