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Join Mansa as she sits down with Vincent to assess the state of the Palestinian struggle. Revolutionaries must admit that the movement has been unable to stop the onslaught, that communists are irrelevant in this struggle, and that the movement needs a different strategy to go forward. We go over the dynamics in the Middle East, the character of the movement in the West, the tasks of communists in Israel, and propose that the movement be re-oriented on a proletarian and anti-imperialist strategy.

The article we discuss is called "After October 7: Where are we now?" and can be found here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/oct-7

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

Vincent's long-form videos on 100 years of failure: 

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmvrqBCIIEM&t=220s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0otK57qcxA&t=626s 

"Only anti-imperialism can unite the peoples of Syria" https://iclfi.org/pubs/wh/255/syria

All relevant articles by the ICL on Palestine can be found here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/topics/palestine 

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Join Mansa as she sits in the hot seat and Vincent David, editor of Spartacist, plays host. We talk about the India-Pakistan war which saw an explosion of national unity on both sides, with many forces on the left backing their governments' reactionary aims. We raised the call: The main enemy is at home! Mansa explains what was at stake in this conflagration, how to break national unity, and why freedom for Kashmir is key. She also goes after the social chauvinist, pacifist, and centrist left groups.

Read the full article here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2025-indi-pakistan 

Freedom for Kashmir! Azadi!: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/kashmir 

South Asian Powder Keg: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/south-asia

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Listen to a hayfevery Mansa as she sits down with Ray Bishop, member of the ed board of Spartacist, and author of "National Opperssion in Xi's China: A Trotskyist answer." We discuss how the national oppression of Uyghurs is used by imperialists to go after China and why it is necessary to fight for an independent socialist Xinjiang to defend China. Today, as the US goes belligerent and seeks to asphyxiate the People's Republic, the defence of China is paramount for the international working class, and key to this defence is to make sense of this utterly controversial question that the international left cannot deal with. 

The article we discuss can be read here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/china-natl

China: Do nothing, lose: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70/china

Open letter to the Central Committee of the CPC: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/2025-cpc-letter

Check out translations of our articles in Chinese here: https://iclfi.org/zh

Check out other articles in the latest Spartacist here: https://iclfi.org/spartacist/en/70

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

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Join Mansa as she discusses French politics with Comrade Alexis, National Secretary of Ligue trotskyste de France (LTF), the ICL's French section. We discuss Macron's empty bravado in the face of Trump, the dynamics fuelling the support for Le Pen and the far-right, the left's failure to fight for a revolutionary opposition to the New Popular Front, and the French state's crackdown against trade union militants and leftists... and more!

Check out the latest issue of the LTF's paper, Le Bolchevik, and subscribe here: https://iclfi.org/fra

On the repression against Anasse Kazib: https://iclfi.org/pubs/lb/238/kazib

On the repression against Gaël Quirante: https://iclfi.org/pubs/lb/238/quirante

On independence for Kanaky: https://iclfi.org/pubs/rb/2024-kanaky 

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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 an echo-ey 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!

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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

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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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