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State of the world: economic crisis and geopolitical rivalries

12 hours 3 minutes ago

My interpretation of the current situation is based on the hypothesis that the global space is being transformed under the dual pressure of economic dynamics and geopolitical rivalries, the interactions between which differ according to historical circumstances.

- IV596-September 2024 / Economy, Imperialism
Claude Serfati

‘It's crucial to fight the far right in Pakistan and the region'

1 day 12 hours ago

Though it is one of the most dynamic regions of world capitalism, the Brazilian public [and elsewhere] knows little about South Asia. But the recent student rebellion in Bangladesh has brought to the fore this region marked by instability, which includes populous countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

- IV596-September 2024 / Fourth International, Pakistan, India, Far Right, Bangladesh
Farooq Tariq, Israel Dutra

International youth camp a great success!

2 days 15 hours ago

France hosted the 39th International Youth Camp for the third year running. After a period when the number of participants was falling, the camp is getting a new lease of life! We had 230 young people, compared with 150 last year. We're aiming to beat that number next year!

- IV596-September 2024 / Youth camp
Jeunesses Anticapitalistes (JA)

Harris Moves Right in Search of a Majority

4 days 17 hours ago

Vice-President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee of an enthusiastic party, has had phenomenal initial success. Since entering the race on July 21, she and her running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have raised $540 million, organized Zoom calls involving hundreds of thousands of supporters, and held rallies of thousands. Blacks, Latinos, women, and young voters are driving her surge. With her party solidly behind her, she has moved to the right to try to win over independents and perhaps even some Republicans.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

The Kenyan Uprising

5 days 6 hours ago

More than two months after its government's controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-led struggle—largely forged on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and WhatsApp by Generation-Z Kenyans—has ignited years of smoldering frustration into fresh demands for accountable governance, dignity, and justice. Following the government's cancellation of the bill, the rallying call shifted from #RejectFinanceBill2024 to #RutoMustGo—a shift from opposition to a tax increase that would disproportionately impact the poorest of Kenyans to a rejection of the neocolonial political arrangement, a public indictment of both elite colonial agents and the comprador class, and a mandate to renegotiate the broken social contract between Kenyan citizens and leadership. Kenyan youth are rejecting the poverty and humiliation perpetuated through the inequitable power relations of the global capitalist system, which have left Kenya vulnerable to aggressive foreign interests and the shadowy manipulation common within the imperial global agenda.

- IV596-September 2024 / Youth and student movements, Kenya
Zachary J. Patterson

Hypocrisy: The Conflict of Zionist Hawks and Vultures

6 days 14 hours ago

What is the conflict within the Zionist power elite about? Do not believe that it is a conflict between hawks and doves as the Western media portrays it. Nay, do not even think that most of the Israeli masses who are demonstrating to demand an agreement leading to a new exchange of captives between their government and Hamas, are seeking to end the tragedy of Gaza and withdraw the occupation army from it. No, as we have repeatedly stressed, the Zionist army will not withdraw from the Strip a second time, since even the “moderates” in its ranks believe that a new withdrawal would mean a repeat of the same mistake.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA), Israel
Gilbert Achcar

Israel, Not Iran or Hezbollah, Wants a Wider War

1 week ago

Having painted itself into a corner by launching a war that has killed 40,000 Palestinians and failed to defeat Hamas, Israel has doubled down, provoking a wider war with Iran and Hezbollah to bring in the US against enemies it cannot vanquish alone.

- IV596-September 2024 / Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen
Joseph Daher

The Indus Water Treaty

1 week 4 days ago

Rising temperatures experts argue, will cause substantial changes to the trans-Himalayan Indus River System by 2050, and lead to water scarcity, er­ratic droughts and floods, loss of biodiversity, and deleterious impacts on 300 million people in India and Pakistan who depend on its rivers for sustenance.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, National question
Mohammad Ebad Athar, Mona Bhan

Not all deaths at sea are equal

1 week 5 days ago

Dave Kellaway reports from Italy, and reflects on the media coverage of the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily compared to the way the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean are usually reported

- IV595 - August 2024 / Italy, Britain, Migration
Dave Kellaway

Anti-Fascism and the Fall of Atlanticist Liberalism

2 weeks ago

The French historian François Furet, a communist in his youth turned anti-communist, is the author of a famous explanation for the popularity of communism after World War II, especially among intellectuals, attributing it to anti-fascism as highlighted by the major role played by the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism during the war.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Palestine, Fascism
Gilbert Achcar

New Delhi faces the gravest geopolitical fallout from Sheikh Hasina's exit

2 weeks 1 day ago

The Modi government must reckon with Bangladeshi anger over its support for Hasina even as the United States, China and Russia all reassess their approaches to Dhaka

- IV595 - August 2024 / India, Bangladesh
Kamal Ahmed

Cost of living crisis sparks nationwide protest in Nigeria

2 weeks 2 days ago

Since 1 August, tens of thousands of people have trooped out onto the streets across Nigeria in nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests against hardship and hunger. This phase of the protest movement is expected to last until 10 August. Demonstrations have been held in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and in 29 of the 26 states of the federation. In all eight states where there were no protests on the streets, residents joined the nationwide protest by sitting at home, as was the case in Enugu.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Nigeria
Baba Aye

From the “ruling realism” to the realism of the oppressed

2 weeks 3 days ago

“Under the shell of suppression, there exists a flow of resistance. Continuous executions are actually a state-tool of intimidation to curb these resistances. ”

- IV595 - August 2024 / Iran
Nima Sabouri

Why we are closing our center for displaced women in Lviv

2 weeks 4 days ago

In this month of August, we are celebrating exactly two and a half years since our Feminist Workshop opened its first shelter for internally displaced women. At the start of the invasion, we opened three shelters. Two of them stayed open for six months. Today, we would like to announce some important news for us: our largest center, which has been operating since June 2022, is closing its doors.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Women, Ukraine
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