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On Jan. 31, 1917, Germany announces it will wage unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships, including passenger carriers, in war-zone waters.

The New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France – formed in 2009 by members of the now-disbanded Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), with the primary intention of uniting France’s far-left – announced at its 5th congress in December it would be undergoing a split, into two roughly similar-sized groups.

The political essence of the developing crisis within the Democratic Socialists of America is coming into sharper focus as a crisis within the Democratic Party and political establishment as a whole.

The German government is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Hitler’s coming to power by sending German Leopard battle tanks to fight Russia.

We republish here a very interesting letter written in 1915 by Serbian socialist Dušan Popovič to Christian Rakovsky, the great Balkan internationalist. The letter was published by Nashe Slovo (Our Word), a daily Russian language socialist newspaper published in France during the First World War and edited by Leon Trotsky.

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

AN Interior sits down with Mexico City–based independent curator, editor, and researcher Mario Ballesteros to discuss design in Mexico and his new exhibition.

GENERAL SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF: Leon Trotsky put it best. You may not be interested in war, the Soviet puppet-master once said, but war is interested in you.

We are very happy to share the recollections of a member of our French organisation (Révolution), who was born in Moscow in the 1960s, and later moved to Paris, joining the PCF (Communist Party of France) and eventually the IMT. There, he discovered Trotsky’s writings, which accurately reflected the comrade’s experiences of the bureaucratic regime in the USSR.

The enormous heroism of protesters defying the murderous violence of the military and police has won the attention and admiration of workers and youth all over the world.