Ever since the reactionary and bloody partition of the South Asian subcontinent in 1947, the drums of blame immediately start beating when any major incident that divides the South Asian subcontinent occurs, with fingers pointing across the other side of the border. Lal Khan examines the historical roots of the divisions between Pakistan and India, and looks at the political tensions between these countries today.

Earlier this month, the Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine (SARU) campaign was launched. This Sunday (22nd June), Jorge Martin from the SARU campaign will be speaking about the struggle against fascism in the Ukraine, as part of the International Marxist School 2014. We publish here a brief overview of the past few months’ events in Ukraine by Tomasz Pierscionek.

The FIFA World Cup continues this week in Brazil, but with a very different atmosphere to what usually accompanies such an event, as the widespread protest movements and strikes taking place in the country clearly demonstrate. Here we publish an article by comrades of the Esquerda Marxista [Marxist Left] in Brazil, which highlights the enormous social and class contradictions that have surfaced around the tournament.