This week, after a series of bombings that left more than 500 dead, the Israeli army launched a vast ground operation in Rafah. The genocidal purpose of this is beyond doubt. Meanwhile, European governments are ramping up military spending in preparation for future wars. Amid this global spiral of imperialist violence, thousands are gathering in Paris for something different. Not a summit of generals deciding where to bomb next, but an internationalist rally of revolutionary socialists — organized by our comrades in Révolution Permanente and the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International — in the heart of imperialist Europe at a moment of profound global crisis.
From the destruction of Gaza to the IMF’s grip on Argentina, the crisis of capitalism is being answered with more war, debt, austerity, and repression. European states are rearming, slashing social programs, and raising retirement ages to fund militarization. Trump, Meloni, Milei, and Le Pen are on the offensive. In Argentina, Milei is waging war on working people to pay an illegitimate debt to the IMF. And In the U.S., as the Zionist genocide in Gaza continues with bipartisan support, we’re witnessing historic levels of repression aimed at silencing the student movement for Palestine, alongside unprecedented attacks on immigrants, trans folks, workers, and basic democratic rights.
This rally takes a stand that is both principled and urgent: The working class must not pay for the crisis of capitalism — not with its wages, not with its lives, and not with its dreams. It must fight to lead humanity out of it.
This is more than a set of ideas — it’s the alternative that many working class and oppressed people are actively fighting for around the world. This rally brings together people who are already on the frontlines of that struggle:
Anasse Kazib is a French railway worker and revolutionary militant facing felony charges for his solidarity with Palestine — a case echoing the repression now being wielded against figures like Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner. Kazib’s case has drawn widespread condemnation from the French and international Left. Over 1,000 intellectuals, artists, and activists — including Angela Davis, Ilan Pappé, and Silvia Federici — have signed open letters demanding the charges be dropped. His trial is set for June 18. Kazib is a founding member and spokesperson for Révolution Permanente, having emerged as a prominent voice during the 2018 railway strikes opposing the liberalization of the rail sector. In 2022 he launched a groundbreaking campaign for the French presidency, becoming the first railway worker and the first candidate of North African descent to seek the office in the Fifth Republic. Although his candidacy was blocked by France’s undemocratic sponsorship requirements, his campaign galvanized thousands of workers and youth seeking a revolutionary alternative to both the neoliberal center and the Far Right.
Myriam Bregman is Argentina’s most prominent Trotskyist, a socialist legislator, human rights lawyer, and former presidential candidate. A leading figure in the Socialist Workers’ Party (PTS) and the Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FIT-U), Bregman has been at the forefront of the fight against President Javier Milei’s austerity offensive, which includes deep cuts to public services, attacks on labor rights, and intensified repression of social movements. She cofounded the Center of Professionals for Human Rights (CeProDH) and has been instrumental in prosecuting crimes committed during Argentina’s last dictatorship.
Inés Heider is a social worker, trade union activist, socialist, and revolutionary feminist. She is a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Internationalist Organization (RIO) and a contributor to Left Voice’s German sister site, Klasse Gegen Klasse. Heider’s political activism began during the 2018 student-worker strike in Berlin, the largest since 1986, where she advocated for the self-organization of workers and challenged union bureaucracy. In 2023, Heider was dismissed from her position as a school social worker in Berlin’s Neukölln district owing to her political activism against austerity measures. A solidarity committee, comprising colleagues, union members, and activists, campaigned for her reinstatement. In May 2025 the Berlin labor court ruled in her favor, ordering her reinstatement with back pay. Heider ran as a revolutionary socialist candidate in the February 2025 German federal elections, representing a coalition of RIO and the Revolutionary Socialist Organization (RSO) in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district. Her campaign opposed militarism, austerity, and the rise of the Far Right, advocating for workers’ rights, anti-racism, and solidarity with Palestine.
Sasha Yaropolskaya is a trans activist, writer, and militant with Du Pain et des Roses and Révolution Permanente in France. Originally from Russia, she has become a prominent voice in the French revolutionary left, advocating for a socialist feminism that is internationalist, anti-imperialist, and rooted in class struggle. As a leading member of Du Pain et des Roses—the French section of the international socialist feminist network founded by Andrea D’Atri—Sasha works to build a movement that connects the fight against gender oppression with the broader struggle against capitalism. She has been on the frontlines of resisting the Far Right’s attacks on trans people and has consistently linked these attacks to the racism, sexism, and class exploitation that sustain them.
Elsa Marcel is a French labor lawyer, socialist militant, and national spokesperson for Révolution Permanente. As an attorney registered with the Paris Bar, she is known for her unwavering defense of workers, youth, and oppressed communities facing state repression and capitalist exploitation. Marcel is a founding member of the Collectif d’Action Judiciaire, a network of left-wing legal professionals that emerged during the Yellow Vests movement to support protesters and challenge the criminalization of social movements. She has been a prominent voice in the fight for the right to strike, notably defending refinery workers during the 2023 pension reform protests and opposed government-imposed requisitions. A frequent media commentator, Marcel has appeared on national outlets like BFM TV, where she has denounced the Macron regime. In 2024, Marcel ran as a revolutionary socialist candidate in the French legislative elections, representing Révolution Permanente in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. Her campaign emphasized the need for an independent, working class alternative to both the neoliberal center and the Far Right, advocating for internationalism, anti-racism, and socialist feminism.
Julia Wallace is a revolutionary socialist, union militant, and founding member of Left Voice, the U.S. section of the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International. With over 25 years of activism, she has been at the forefront of struggles against racism, police brutality, and for the rights of immigrants, women, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Born to a teacher involved in the Black Panther Party’s Freedom Schools, Julia’s commitment to social justice was instilled early on. She is a social worker in Los Angeles and an active member of SEIU Local 721, the largest public sector union in Southern California. Within the union, she advocates for a revolutionary approach to labor organizing, challenging both oppression and bureaucratic complacency. As a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement and a vocal opponent of U.S. imperialism, Julia fights for a socialist alternative that centers the self-emancipation of the working class and the oppressed.
Why This Rally Matters for the U.S. Left
Here in the U.S., the contradictions are sharpening. As students are dragged away in zip ties for protesting genocide, Trump calls for mass deportations and offers more weapons to Israel. As inflation eats away at wages and housing becomes unattainable, Trump poses as the voice of the “forgotten” working class, while preparing a second-term agenda of tax cuts for billionaires and attacks on public services. Pressure from below, especially from spontaneous community mobilizations, is pushing union and social movement leaders to mobilize, but they are not organizing a serious, unified struggle against Trump. Leaders who were once more combative, such as Shawn Fain, are now supporting Trump’s protectionist policies. Our hope lies with the new labor movement, the anti-imperialist student movement protesting for Palestine, women fighting for reproductive rights, trans youth, and communities mobilizing to stop ICE raids and mass deportations.
Too much of the Left responds with symbolic protest, moral outrage, or electoral detours. But the rally in Paris — and the international current organizing it — offers something else entirely. It represents a strategy based not on tailing bourgeois parties or making moral appeals to the system, but on building a revolutionary, internationalist Left that is capable of confronting war, the Far Right, and the capitalist crisis at their root.
We’re not trying to revive the Democratic Party, like Bernie Sanders, AOC, or New York progressives like Zohran Mamdani. We don’t believe the path to liberation runs through the institutions of the capitalist state. And we’re not content with mutual aid and local organizing alone — however well-intentioned — because the scale of the crisis demands a strategy for power. We are fighting for the political independence of the working class — from both the Right and the Democrats — and for the construction of a socialist organization that can challenge the entire system on a global scale.
The rally in Paris is a glimpse of what a fighting socialist alternative looks like in practice. It shows that revolutionary politics isn’t a historical memory or a utopian project — it’s a living force, organizing today, and fighting for organizations in 14 countries around the world.
Organized by our comrades in Révolution Permanente and the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International, this event, happening in a major Parisian convention center, is one of the largest Trotskyist gatherings in Europe in years — from France to Argentina, Germany to the U.S., it brings together a current that fights for the liberation of the working class, rooted in real processes of class struggle and an unbroken commitment to international socialism from below.
This is the perspective that guides Left Voice — whether we’re reporting from campus occupations, supporting rank-and-file labor militants, or challenging the reformist Left’s refusal to break with imperialism. From Amazon warehouses to the halls of CUNY, we’ve said clearly: we don’t just want a more humane empire — we want to end it and build something entirely different — a socialist society based on workers’ power, internationalism, and liberation from below.
Join a Watch Party
We’re hosting a watch party in New York City to stream the internationalist rally, share a meal, and engage in political discussion. We’re hosting this watch party not just to witness it — but to create a space where we can reflect, debate, and draw lessons for the struggles we’re part of here: on campus, at work, and in the streets.
The event will take place this Sunday at 6:00 p.m. ET at Mayday Space in Brooklyn. We’ll screen the rally with subtitles, and afterward we’ll open a space for collective reflection and conversation about what this moment means for building revolutionary politics in the U.S.
If you’re not in NYC, we’ll also stream the rally on our YouTube channel starting Sunday — so you can watch and discuss with comrades wherever you are.