In October 2026, Brazil became the centre of a global dispute, partially and momentarily won by the working class. The wave of street protests against the cost of living, war, the right wing, and imperialism that swept through Europe translated in Brazil into spontaneous and massive support for Lula’s victory.

The following is the notes/text of a presentation delivered by a Consistent Democrats speaker on 25th October. The recording of the presentation and discussion is also available.

The new issue of Spartacist has an innovative article titled “Fourth International After World War 2 – How Trotskyism Fractured”. The thesis put forward is an important corrective to the conceits of many ‘Trotskyists’ today; it points out that a fundamental disorientation overcame pretty much the entire Fourth International by the end of WWII…..

The extensive discussions at tonight’s forum are here as a podcast. The presentations are loosely based on our article of the same title, so this can be used for reference.

In the Holborn and St Pancras (HSP) By-Election, there is currently no Labour or left-wing candidate that is sufficiently on the side of the working class and the oppressed to merit electoral support from those communists who are concerned, as Marx and Engels’ Manifesto of the Communist Party says, to “represent the interests of the [working class] movement as a whole”.

 BRICS held its 18th Summit in New Delhi between 12 and 13 September 2026. For a number of reasons the bloc.. has set aside confrontational geopolitical narratives…

The lead article in this issue focusses on the environmental crisis that became glaringly obvious this summer, with the repeated heatwaves that undoubtedly were the cause of much loss of life, record-breaking overall temperature globally and the unmistakeable fact that this is the product of anthropogenic climate change, which is above all the product of the capitalist mode of production.

(by Ian Donovan for Consistent Democrats)

Starmer’s regime, and now Burnham’s, has carried on and intensified the actions of the previous Sunak/Truss/ Johnson regime in sending Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, for the Zelensky-Nazi regime to fire into Russia with obvious British technical and intelligence data to guide them.