يوم واحد 15 ساعة ago
This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese “Carnation” Revolution that erupted in 1974 and was finally tamed in 1976 with the election of a government led by Soares from the Socialist Party(SP). The moderate SP consolidated many reforms won in the previous two years but also restored the capitalist order.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Portugal,
Historical events and figures
Brais Fernandez, Dave Kellaway
يومين 13 ساعة ago
The controversy surrounding a historian's attempt to give a minute's monologue on the meaning of Italy's National Liberation Day, 25 April.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Italy,
Far Right
Dave Kellaway
3 أيام ساعة واحدة ago
“They accused Switzerland, with evidence to back up their accusations, of failing to take care of their health and well-being in the face of increasingly worrying heatwaves, and of failing to take steps to achieve the target set for 2030 by the Paris Agreement in 2015.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Women,
Climate,
Switzerland
Maryelle Budry
4 أيام 6 ساعات ago
“Until now, the South has been a bastion of bosses, of non-union open shops, where workers had no vote and no voice in their workplaces. If this victory leads to others, as it is expected to, it will change completely the balance of forces between the corporations and the working class in America.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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United States (USA),
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Dan La Botz
5 أيام 3 ساعات ago
In an interview with Jacobin, Leonidas Iza, president of Ecuador's CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), the country's main indigenous movement, discusses the government's repressive policy, militarization, and the expansion of drug trafficking while criticizing neoliberal policies and examining political debates within the indigenous movement and the left. The interview was conducted by Martín Mosquera and Iain Bruce.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Ecuador
Iain Bruce, Leonadis Iza, Martín Mosquera
6 أيام ساعتين ago
“Faced with the militarisation of the world, we need a global anti-war movement. It's easy to say, but hard to do. Can we rely on local cross-border solidarity (Ukraine-Russia, India-Pakistan) to achieve this? Or on the huge solidarity movement with Palestine? Or social forums like the one that has just taken place in Nepal?”
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IV591 - April 2024
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World,
Ecology and the Environment,
War drive/Anti-war movements
Jaime Pastor , Pierre Rousset
أسبوع واحد ago
“Two symbolic dates of struggle for the workers' movement, 25 April, the anniversary of the defeat of fascism, and 1 May, are very close together. The perspective must be that of a new season of struggle, of a revival of the workers' movement.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Italy,
Far Right
Franco Turigliatto
أسبوع واحد يوم واحد ago
“If I were to give some general advice, I would recommend paying less attention to which abstract position is correct, and focusing more on practical action to help us climb out of the hole we are in.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Ukraine
Taras Bilous
أسبوع واحد يومين ago
Philippe Poutou, a former candidate in the French presidential elections and spokesperson for France's Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA), will be in third place on the “Anticapitalistes” list put forward by Belgium's “Gauche anticapitaliste” (Anti-Capitalist Left) organisation in the European parliamentary elections on 9 June 2024.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Belgium,
France,
European Union
Gauche anticapitaliste/SAP Antikapitalisten
أسبوع واحد 3 أيام ago
Franco-Lebanese researcher Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, reviews the Israeli attack on April 1st against the consulate in Damascus and analyses the response of the Islamic Republic. He also examines the effects of this renewed tension on the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Gaza.
[French original published by L'Humanité]
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What was Israel seeking by striking the Iranian consulate in Damascus?
The (...)
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IV591 - April 2024
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Israel,
Iran
Gilbert Achcar
أسبوع واحد 3 أيام ago
“This is the culmination of a campaign by the German government that has been going on for months to prevent any solidarity with the people of Palestine and criticism of the German government's military and political support for Israel.”
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News from around the world
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Palestine,
Germany
ISO
أسبوع واحد 4 أيام ago
Dan La Botz
أسبوع واحد 5 أيام ago
“The European elections should be an opportunity to strengthen a radical left anchored in social, feminist, anti-racist and ecological struggles, in popular neighbourhoods, capable of stopping the rise of the far right.” For a number of political and intellectual figures, struggles must not only be a defensive reaction, but also build “a new political force, stronger and more popular than what organizations and struggles represent today.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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France,
European Union
Collective
أسبوع واحد 6 أيام ago
Switching from a presidential to a parliamentary system is Faure Gnassingbé's latest brainwave to ensure that, like his father, he remains President for life.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Togo
Paul Martial
أسبوعين ago
“People in positions of power at German universities are in clear violation of widely held academic — and, frankly, constitutional — norms about political freedom and freedom of speech.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Palestine,
Germany,
Israel
Nancy Fraser
أسبوعين ago
The violent police occupation of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador on Friday 5th April, attacks two basic principles of diplomacy and civilized coexistence between nations: the principle of the inviolability of diplomatic headquarters and the right to asylum for any person persecuted for their way of thinking.
The ultra-right-wing and neoliberal president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa Azín, presented two pretexts for his unacceptable action: that he acted to execute an arrest warrant against (...)
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News from around the world
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Fourth International,
Ecuador,
Mexico
Collective
أسبوعين يوم واحد ago
Asma Aamir
أسبوعين يومين ago
The victory of Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the fruit of popular mobilization, has created a new political situation enabling the radical left to push for a real break with the past.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Senegal
Paul Martial
أسبوعين 3 أيام ago
In the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq, known as Bashur to the Kurds, close to the border with Turkey, war has been raging for several years now, and has intensified in recent months.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Turkey,
Kurdistan
Mireille Court
أسبوعين 4 أيام ago
Collective
Checked
7 ساعات 36 minutes ago
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