International Viewpoint

“Let's make the voice of social movements heard in Marrakech next October. We want to demonstrate the power of organized peoples, defend popular sovereignty and promote social and environmental justice.”

“From the past situation of Abe's politics, the fascism inherent in “Abeism” emerges. “Abeism” is closely associated with fascism and the fascist movements, if not fascism itself.”

“Sixty-two percent of Americans support the right to abortion. While liberals and progressives dominate the abortion rights movement, socialist feminists are also active in it.”

“Whether for traffickers, the mafia or "honourable" business leaders, exporting waste to Africa is a way to earn or save money. But it is also and above all a way to perpetuate a system of overconsumption generating profits, whatever the consequences for the environment.”

“It is all the more important now to highlight the inadequacy of this agreement and to mentally prepare for the fact that we must therefore act ourselves, that this is the most effective way of imposing higher wages and salaries.”

“This mobilization is a test: all the trade unions and parties, the whole social and political left, the vast majority of the population, are opposed to the reform. If it passes, the government will feel that it has wings and will step up the attacks.”

Since 16 September, an unprecedented popular uprising has shaken the Islamic Republic of Iran. The repression has left more than 500 people dead, including 69 minors. To avoid "solutions imposed from outside", many political, social and intellectual figures propose "a real campaign of international solidarity with all those who are mobilising in Iran to put an end to the Islamic Republic".

First reports show massive support for the day of strikes and action on 19 January in France. Léon Crémieux explains the background.

Anti*Capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti trade union legislation.

“Last year alone, six unions representing 32,000 struck at various hospitals across the United States. They have done so with great sympathy from the public, which has viewed the nurses as heroic.”

“Today, we seek to renew the thread of the construction of a useful party for the exploited and the oppressed.”

“Arend van de Poel was above all a rock-solid and reliable party-activist […] equally sharp and erudite.”

The latest developments in the ongoing strike wave in the United Kingdom, as workers fight for higher pay while the Conservatives prepare new anti-union legislation.

At first glance, the trajectories of Russia and China in the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries seem very similar: from revolution to reintegration into the capitalist world market at the risk of (again) becoming dominated countries, followed by a rebound leading to the affirmation of two new imperialisms. On closer inspection, these trajectories also turn out to be irreducibly specific in more than one aspect.

“So far, the German government has successfully conveyed the image: Putin is to blame for inflation, but the government is helping out.”

The internationally-renowned intellectual was arrested in late November 2022, joining an ever-growing list of political prisoners detained by the Ortega regime.

“In many cases, rights groups deemed that those killed did not pose an explicit threat to the lives of the Israeli soldiers when they were killed. ”

Despite different approaches toward the pandemic, the US and China share a commitment to capital accumulation.

“We had to first bring back the left and insert left issues into the centre of Polish political debate. We had to bring back social protest and unionising into everyday Polish political practice — and we succeeded. These were our motivations.”

“The last time the United States saw violent, rightist politicians in Congress was in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the 1940s.”