7 hours 38 minutes 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
1 day 5 hours 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
2 days 19 hours 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
3 days 16 hours 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
4 days 16 hours 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
4 days 16 hours 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
5 days 6 hours ago
Dan La Botz
6 days 12 hours 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
1 week 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
1 week 1 day 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
1 week 1 day 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
1 week 2 days ago
Asma Aamir
1 week 3 days 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
1 week 4 days 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
1 week 5 days ago
Collective
1 week 5 days ago
Dan La Botz
1 week 6 days ago
Turkey's municipal elections of 31 March 2024, contrary to all predictions, represented a genuine political earthquake where the bloc linked to the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, received its first defeat since 2002. Erdogan's victory in the 2023 elections, despite all the hopes of the opposition, had been a source of demoralization and loss of interest in politics.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Turkey
Uraz Aydin
2 weeks ago
“Most pressingly, there is a need for immediate expressions of solidarity with Palo Quemado and other communities resisting predatory mining on their land, and facing severe repression as a result. More strategically, as the President of CONAIE, Leonidas Iza explained in the news conference at the end of the II National Gathering, they see the need to develop as soon as possible this international network against mining and extractive industries, that can bring together all those resisiting these attacks on their communities and their environment.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Ecology and the Environment,
Ecuador
Iain Bruce
2 weeks 1 day ago
In 1994, France, under president François Mitterrand, was at the heart of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Thirty years later, it is our duty to know and recount the course and responsibilities of this historic event.
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IV591 - April 2024
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Rwanda
Paul Martial
2 weeks 2 days ago
“What we are experiencing in Puerto Rico is a modality that we know internationally as lawfare, the misuse of the judicial system as a political weapon, in the electoral process.”
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IV591 - April 2024
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Puerto Rico
Antoine Larrache, Lauriane Misandro, Rafael Bernabe
Checked
1 hour 16 minutes ago
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