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As the US’ unipolarity continues to fade, it will double down on using its vast military power to impose its will on the Western hemisphere. Full solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Down with US imperialism!

The US is attempting regime change in Venezuela to crush the Bolivarian process, which has used Venezuela’s resources for sovereign development, including the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

The Class Character of Reform UK — Climate Vanguard In this brief, we analyse the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding the party, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base. Studying Reform’s...

Reform UK is now Britain's largest party.

In our most recent brief, we investigate the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding it, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base.

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This is capitalism working exactly as it should: stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Only eco-socialism can put an end to this insanity.

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The Class Character of Reform UK — Climate Vanguard In this brief, we analyse the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding the party, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base. Studying Reform’s...

📄 NEW BRIEF: Analysing the class character of Reform UK.

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) just ended extreme poverty in Kerala.

Meanwhile, in the US — the richest country in human history — 40% of people are poor or low income.

This slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is highlighted in red. In the middle, there are two grey boxes with black text, some of which is highlighted in pink. In the upper right, there is a picture of a PTB rally. The text reads: The PTB provides a plethora of lessons for organisers seeking to build an effective mass left party: Empowered membership: Party structures allow ordinary members to develop leadership skills and take on responsibility. Effective leadership: Strong, democratic leadership enables the party to act quickly and with discipline. Positive Demands: Prioritise issues that matter to people and communicate them in accessible, relatable language. Community Organising: Meeting people’s needs strengthens relationships and trust. This is part 2 of 6 in our series that analyses leftwing parties from around the world.

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This slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. On the top half, there is a picture of a PTB press conference. The text reads: Electoral Success The PTB’s social strength has brought electoral success across different levels of government. This has provided it with a mainstream platform through which it can agitate against the corruption of the political status quo. And they don’t just talk the talk: the party requires elected officials to live modestly, close to the standard of a skilled worker, and donate much of their parliamentary salary to the party. Crucially, the parliamentary faction remains subordinate to the party leadership, ensuring representatives follow the party’s political line. Note: The PTB now holds 2 seats in the European Parliament, 15 in the national parliament, and 258 local and regional elected positions. Sources: Farooq, Democratic Left (2025); Biver, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2024); Mertens, The Socialist Program with Brian Becker (2024).

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This slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. On the top half, there is a picture of a PTB pro-Palestine protest. The text reads: Base-Building The PTB has a strong legacy of meeting the people where they’re at. This includes both joining picket lines and demonstrations, as well as running solidarity projects, like helping refugee families or supporting local food banks. Especially well known are the PTB’s 11 community health clinics, which provide free or low-cost medical care while integrating political education on the social determinants of health. As a material force of change, base-building provides the PTB with political credibility in working-class communities. Sources: Blakeley, Tribune (2024); Shabeer, People’s Dispatch (2019).

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This slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. On the top half, there are two pictures: one of Raoul Hedebouw, the president of the PTB, and another of a graphic for the PTB’s “Stop Arizona” campaign. The text reads: Popular Campaigns The PTB creates people-oriented campaigns through its enquête process, in which it surveys local communities before compiling results at the national level. Whether it’s taxing the rich or fighting the increase in retirement age, the PTB frames its campaigns through the language of class struggle. This is massified through its vibrant, modern aesthetic and strong social media presence, ensuring that its Marxist messaging pierces the mainstream. Sources: Blakeley, Tribune (2024); Farooq, Democratic Left (2025).

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The top half of this slide is a picture of members attending a PTB event. The bottom half of the slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. The text reads: Democratic Structure Centralised party leadership is elected from the bottom up, with delegates from base groups and regional sections choosing leaders at national congresses, and held accountable through internal democratic processes. The national leadership coordinates strategy, political messaging, and major campaigns, which are adapted to local contexts by base groups. The party deliberately cultivates leadership and collective empowerment among its members, who – especially those from the working class – are encouraged and supported to rise through the ranks of the organisation. Sources: Farooq, Democratic Left (2025); Mertens, The Socialist Program with Brian Becker (2024); Blakeley, Tribune (2024).

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This slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. On the top half, there are two pictures: one of the PTB student wing, COMAC, and another of the PTB festival, Manifiesta. The text reads: The PTB also has a robust network of affiliated organisations, including its student wing COMAC, youth organisation RedFox, and women’s movement Marianne, as well as its annual festival, Manifiesta, which brings together thousands of people around a 21st-century socialist politics that is both politically serious and playful. Its dynamic structure both develops skilled activists and expands the party’s mass base among the working class. Today, the PTB has over 25,000 members (up from 8,500 in 2014) and nearly 800,000 people voted for the party in the 2024 federal elections. Sources: Shabeer, People’s Dispatch (2019); PTB, Over PVDA (n.d.); Farooq, Democratic Left (2025).

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The majority of this slide is a picture of people attending a PTB event. The bottom half has a grey background with white text, some of which is highlighted in red. To the right, there is a grey box with black text, some of which is highlighted in pink. The text reads: Membership Key to the PTB’s renewal was the introduction of an accessible three-tiered membership structure: Consultative members: Pay basic dues, support the party, and receive information. Base group members: Active participants in local units based in workplaces, municipalities, or neighbourhoods. Militants: Highly committed members who dedicate significant time and energy to party organising. Source: Farooq, Democratic Left (2025).

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The top half of this slide is a picture of Belgian students at a May 1968 protest. The bottom half of this slide has a grey background with white text, some of which is underlined in red or highlighted in red. The text reads: History The PTB was founded in 1979 by activists from the May ’68 student movement. As a Maoist party, it focused on meeting people’s material needs – for instance, through the now-famous network of community health centres called “Medicine for the People.” Nevertheless, it remained marginal in Belgian politics for decades, hindered by its ideological rigidity, insularity, and the high level of commitment expected from members. This began to change in the 2000s after it underwent a conscious process of “renewal,” aiming to become a “party where ordinary people feel at home.” Sources: Shabeer, People’s Dispatch (2019); PTB, Over PVDA (n.d.).

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The left hand side of this slide is a continuation of the previous picture of the PTB. The right hand side has a grey background with white text, some of which his underlined in red or highlighted in red. The text reads: Those organising for social transformation can look to the Workers' Party of Belgium (Parti du travail de Belgique, PTB) for a source of inspiration, an unabashedly socialist and anti-imperialist party firmly rooted in working-class life. By consistently organising around the issues that matter to ordinary people, like cost of living, healthcare, pensions, and ecological breakdown, the PTB has expanded its membership and political influence, becoming one of Europe’s most successful socialist organisations.

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This slide has a background picture of the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB). There is text on top, some of which is bolded or highlighted in red. The text reads: The Workers’ Party of Belgium Parties of the People pt. 2/6

🚩 The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)

By re-inventing itself as a “party where ordinary people feel at home,” the PTB has become one of the most successful socialist organisations in all of Europe 🧵

The Global North is responsible for 86% of emissions in excess of the 'safe' planetary boundary. Hurricane Melissa is the outcome of atmospheric colonisation, a form of imperialist appropriation that imposes permanent de-development on the South.

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☄️ We’re excited to share that we will be running Comet again next year.

Comet is a 4.5-month training programme for youth organisers in Britain who are seeking to understand the world and how to change it.

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The ‘Downwardly Mobile Graduate’ in the Struggle for Eco-Socialism — Climate Vanguard Who are the agents of eco-socialist transition? In this brief, we investigate the extent to which the downwardly mobile graduate in Britain can be a core part of a social bloc for eco-socialism.

📃 NEW: Debt, a tight job market, poor wages, and left-leaning politics. In our latest brief, we analyse the extent to which downwardly mobile graduates in Britain can be cohered into a bloc for eco-socialism. Read here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...

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"We are anti-imperialists because we are Marxists, because we are revolutionaries, because we oppose capitalism with socialism" - José Carlos Mariátegui

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

Not good. Carbon sinks appear to be failing, driving a record CO2 emissions increase in 2024. Capital continues to apply unbearable pressure on our planetary life support systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For a member led, Socialist party | Prometheus In an unprecedented display of unity, seven groups have declared an agreed programme in the fight for a socialist and member led Your Party

Real efforts to transform Your Party into a democratic instrument for anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, eco-socialist struggle - a very promising sign from the grassroots Left. prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/13/f...

Mamdani’s liberal capitulation is a clear lesson of what happens when left organisations do not maintain power over their elected members.

Without mechanisms of accountability, they will inevitably cave to the pressures of the status quo.

Breaking: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Machado, a US-Israeli asset calling for the overthrow of her own government.

This is the imperialist definition of “peace.”

Bourgeois politics is just a bunch of right-wing parties calling each other socialist or communist.

This slide has a grey background with bolded black text, some of which is underlined in red. The text reads: “Mechanisms of unequal development produce structural conditions, such as unemployment and inequality, which catapult the massive migration of dispossessed and marginalized people. Compelled by the need to have access to means of subsistence or at least minimal opportunities for social mobility, large segments of the population are in practice expelled from their territories to relocate within their own country or abroad. Labor oversupply and worsening living conditions turn migration, particularly from peripheral countries, into a form of forced displacement.” - Raúl Delgado Wise Source: Delgado Wise, Monthly Review (2013).

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