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En hommage à Shireen Abu Aqleh, de Jérusalem à Jénine
Le meurtre de la journaliste Shireen Abu Aqleh est un condensé de ce qui caractérise la domination israélienne : sentiment d’impunité et besoin d’effacer l’autre palestinien, peu importe le coût. Nous […]
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India: How British Colonizers Caused The Bengal Famine
The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. Britain must face up to this crime, says Jason Hickel. The Bengal famine stands as one of the single most horrific atrocities to have occurred under (...)
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Pouvoir russe : une plate-forme idéologique intégralement réactionnaire
Nicolaï Platonovitch Patrouchev est le secrétaire du Conseil de sécurité de la Fédération de Russie. Il fait partie du premier cercle entourant Poutine. Parfois mentionné comme son « idéologue », on en parle aussi comme d'un éventuel successeur. Dans un long entretien publié le 26 avril dans Rossiyskaya (...)
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Kazakhstan: No end in sight for protests in western region
Oil workers and state employees want higher salaries, and the unemployed wants jobs. The west of Kazakhstan is in ferment once more. Only six weeks after protests in the Mangystau region triggered a chain reaction of nationwide rallies that culminated with deadly unrest in the city of Almaty, (...)
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Millions raised in hours to free prominent Thai activists
Arnon and Penguin remain jailed after one of the courts they have cases before, the Bangkok South Criminal Court, denied bail to them, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. Supporters of Thailand's pro-democracy movement raised millions of baht within a few hours last night to help (...)
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Sri Lanka: NLAC demands transparency in IMF deals
The National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC), which includes Trade Unions, urged the Government to reveal details of negotiations and agreements with the IMF in the public domain, before they are officially agreed on and signed and present a short-term budget in Parliament within two weeks for (...)
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L'extrême droite en Europe : la galaxie fasciste italienne
Checchino Antonini décrit les liens entre les groupes d'extrême droite en Italie, leurs actions et leurs liens avec institutions. Le samedi 9 octobre 2021 au soir à Rome, quelques centaines de personnes ont attaqué le siège national de la CGIL , le plus ancien et le plus important des syndicats (...)
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Environmental activists in Russia are under increasing pressure
Vyacheslav Egorov, aged 44, was sentenced on 14 October 2021 in the first instance by the Kolomna municipal court to 15 months in prison. This sentence was confirmed on appeal on 17 February 2022. His crime: to have organised, in 2018, several peaceful demonstrations in this town in the Moscow (...)
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United States - DSA and the Russian War on Ukraine: Political Paralysis
Ukrainian American protest against Russian invasion of Ukraine, New York City, February 2022. No DSA presence. The Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States, with about 75,000 members (down from 94,000) in more than 200 chapters, has been unable (...)
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En Russie, les militants écologistes confrontés à toujours plus de menaces
Viatcheslav Egorov, 44 ans, a été condamné le 14 octobre 2021 en première instance par le tribunal municipal de Kolomna à 15 mois de prison ferme. Une peine confirmée en appel le 17 février 2022. Son crime : avoir organisé, en 2018, plusieurs manifestations pacifiques dans cette ville de la région de (...)
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The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has no justification, but NATO…” It is difficult to describe the emotions I and other Ukrainian socialists feel about this “but” in the statements and articles of many Western leftists. Unfortunately, it is often followed by attempts to present the Russian invasion (...)
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Irlande du Nord : une victoire électorale inédite du Sinn Féin
Le 5 mai dernier ont eu lieu une série d’élections au Royaume-Uni. L’Écosse, le Pays de Galles et l’Angleterre (soit, la Grande-Bretagne) renouvelaient une partie de leurs gouvernements locaux (environ […]
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The dashed hopes of the new Chilean left
Two months after his election, Gabriel Boric seems to be the president of a world that no longer exists. Buoyed by hopes of renovating the political system with the constituent process, he is the result of a quid pro quo between democratic demands and the echo of the social explosion of October (...)
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Les espoirs déçus de la nouvelle gauche chilienne
Deux mois après son élection, Gabriel Boric semble être le président d'un monde qui n'existe déjà plus. Porté par les espoirs de rénovation du système politique avec le processus constituant, il est le résultat d'un quiproquo entre des revendications démocratiques et l'écho de l'explosion sociale (...)
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United States: Against the Supreme Cour tens of thousands in the streets on May 14 in defense of abortion rights
Tens of thousands marched and rallied on May 14 in defense of abortion rights in some 400 cities and towns across the U.S. in face of the “leaked” draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overturning the Court's 1973 decision in Roe vs Wade legalizing abortion. The largest action was (...)
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United States: Buffalo killings reveal depth of white extremism
He was inspired by the racially-motivated massacre in New Zealand by right wing terrorist Brenton Tarrant in 2019 and white supremacists in the United States. Federal officials said they are investigating the case as a racially-motivated hate crime. Black people have known white terror for (...)
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Elections in the Philippines - Bongbong Marcos: The man attempting to revive a corrupt political dynasty
64-year-old Ferdinand Marcos Jr is frontrunner to be the next president of the Philippines. His father was a ruthless dictator. His mother gained international notoriety for her massive collection of shoes. So how is 64-year-old Ferdinand Marcos Jr, more commonly known by his nickname (...)
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Elections in the Philippines - Leni Robredo: The woman leading the Philippines' 'pink revolution'
Leni Robredo is the main opponent of presidential frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. In 1986, the Philippine capital Manila was awash with yellow when the People Power movement toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Now, more than 30 years on, opponents of his son's presidential run are uniting (...)
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Will the Philippines' Future Be Pink? - “Leni Robredo's campaign is gaining momentum”
As the country approaches presidential elections due in May, the Vice President Leni Robredo's campaign is gaining momentum. Several days before the deadline to file certificates of candidacy with the country's Commission on Elections, it was still not clear whether the Philippines' Vice (...)
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Elections in the Philippines: the revenge of the Marcos clan and the campaign of Leni Robredo
On 9 May, the Marcos clan regained the power from which it had been excluded since the fall of the dictatorship in 1986. In counterpoint, the campaign led by Leni Robredo, who came second, opened up a space for resistance for progressive forces. Many polls, local and national, are held on a (...)
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About the war in Ukraine
In recent days, we read that the morale of Russian soldiers is challenged, that 300 of them sat down on the job, and perhaps some of them ran over their own commander. Perhaps in the coming days, as more people are killed and more Ukrainians leave their homes and their country, we will also see (...)
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L'extrême droite en Europe : l'expérience hongroise
Aux dernières élections législatives d'avril 2022, la coalition au pouvoir, composée du FIDESZ du Premier ministre Victor Orban et du Parti Populaire démocrate-chrétien, a obtenu 50% des voix. Un autre parti d'extrême droite, néonazi, Notre mouvement pour la patrie, a obtenu 5% des voix. Qu'est-ce qui (...)
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Federal election: Australia turns centre‑left – with feminist characteristics
Hal Greenland asseses the dramatic shift to the centre left in Australia after the weekend federal elections. On Saturday, the Australian federal elections resulted in a dramatic shift to the centre-left in a poll that saw the emergence of a batch of insurgent feminist politicians. The (...)
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Federal election (Australia): Good riddance to Morrison, time to fight Labor
After nine years of ruling for the rich, the Coalition government's primary vote dropped by more than 6 percent and it lost a slew of seats—and government—in yesterday's federal election. This was a public judgement of its agenda of tax cuts for the well-off, wage cuts for workers, inaction on (...)
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Philippines: Politicians, their spouses, siblings and children pack the party-list race
The party-list elections have become a back door for politicians to perpetuate themselves in power, said Danilo Arao, a journalism professor and convenor of the election watchdog group Kontra Daya. At least 70 of 177 party-list groups accredited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the (...)
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Sri Lanka: Activists to agitate against Singaporean multinational in sugar plantation venture
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Politburo Member Samantha Vidyaratna warned yesterday (22) that the sugar plantation venture led by the Singaporean multinational corporation, Singapore Gazelle Ventures (Pvt.) Ltd. will lead to traditional owners of lands becoming “slaves” and said that a large (...)
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Philippines: Corruption, economic crisis under Marcos rule
On Feb. 22-25, the nation again commemorates those four days – 36 years ago – when Filipinos rose up in determined yet peaceful protest, converged on Edsa and with their own bodies stopped the military tanks and troops dispatched to disperse them. That popular uprising, replicated in other parts (...)
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[Du mouvement social !] L'émission d'Attac sur Radio Aligre, « Face aux épidémies présentes et à venir, réinventer une santé écologique et populaire »
Chaque mois, l'association Attac vous donne rendez-vous autour d'un sujet d'actualité avec des invités pour en débattre, et vous présente un panorama du mouvement social. - Podcasts | Radio
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[Du mouvement social !] L'émission d'Attac sur Radio Aligre , « Grèves féministes en France et à l'internationale »
Chaque mois, l'association Attac vous donne rendez-vous autour d'un sujet d'actualité avec des invités pour en débattre, et vous présente un panorama du mouvement social. - Podcasts | Radio
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From Taiwan to Ukraine
Geopolitical realignment and anticolonial solidarity in a time of war WAR: A FAMILIAR COLONIAL NARRATIVE While Ukraine and the geopolitics of Eastern Europe were far away from Taiwanese consciousness prior to Russia's invasion, the war has since galvanized a vibrant discussion on imperial (...)
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Enquêter sur les possibles pour retrouver l’espoir
Haud Guéguen, Laurent Jeanpierre, La perspective du possible. Comment penser ce qui peut nous arriver, et ce que nous pouvons faire, coll. « L’horizon des possibles », éd. La Découverte, 2022. Épilogue […]
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Ukraine : Qu'est-ce que le régiment Azov, ce bataillon ultra-nationaliste devenu symbole du martyre de Marioupol ?
Pour le Kremlin, la cause est entendue : les néo-nazis occupent une place prépondérante dans les structures politiques et militaires de l'Ukraine, et le pays doit donc être « dénazifié ». Cet argument, au cœur de la justification de l'attaque lancée le 24 février, s'appuie largement sur le rôle majeur (...)
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Elections aux Philippines : la revanche du clan Marcos et la campagne de Leni Robredo (version corrigée)
Le 9 mai dernier, le clan des Marcos a reconquis ce pouvoir dont il avait été écarté depuis la chute de la dictature en 1986. En contrepoint, la campagne menée par Leni Robredo, arrivée en deuxième position, a ouvert un espace de résistance pour les forces progressistes. De nombreux scrutins, locaux (...)
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Pour l'Algérie, Hélène Cuénat, militante dans le réseau Jeanson - le réseau, la clandestinité, l'arrestation, l'évasion
Elle rejoint l'Algérie en août 1962 et y restera jusqu'en 1972. Elle travaille pendant sept ans à la SNS, à Annaba. Elle sera amnistiée en France en 1966. Dans La porte verte, Hélène raconte son évasion avec cinq de ses camarades, de la Petite Roquette, à Paris. La porte verte, c'est la petite porte (...)
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France-Algérie : Décès de la militante de l'indépendance algérienne Hélène Cuenat
Nous annonçons le décès d'Hélène Cuenat, notre amie et notre camarade. Ses obsèques auront lieu au cimetière de Montmartre mercredi 25 mai à 16h. Hélène, communiste française, mise au ban de son parti pour aide à la lutte d'indépendance de l'Algérie, a fait fait partie du réseau Jeanson. Arrêtée, (...)
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Don't write off radical feminism – it's always been ahead of its time
The revolutionary social justice movement of the 1970s still has answers today Feminism is often portrayed as a dinosaur rudely dying right in the way of progressive change. Younger people today are much more fluent in their understandings of sex, gender and sexuality. There are more terms (...)
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Guerre en Ukraine : solidarité avec la résistance ukrainienne, contre tous les impérialismes
Cette nouvelle déclaration de la QI sur l'Ukraine a été adoptée par le Bureau exécutif de la Quatrième Internationale le lundi 23 mai 2022. 1. Évolution de la guerre . Aujourd'hui, trois mois se sont écoulés depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine par les troupes de Poutine. L'armée russe a occupé des parties (...)
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Finn MacKay : Ne décriez pas le féminisme radical – il a toujours été en avance sur son temps
Le mouvement révolutionnaire des années 70 pour la justice sociale est encore une ressource aujourd'hui. Le féminisme est souvent dépeint comme un dinosaure agonisant sur la voie du progrès. Les jeunes d'aujourd'hui comprennent beaucoup mieux les notions de sexe, de genre et de sexualité. Plus que (...)
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War in Ukraine: solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, against all imperialisms
This new FI declaration on Ukraine has been adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on Monday 23 May 2022. 1. State of the war . Today, three months have passed since the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's troops. The Russian army has occupied parts of the territory, (...)
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Sri Lanka: The art and literature of protest and liberation
Poets, academics, novelists, performance artists, painters, and activists expound on SL's burgeoning art and literary scene anchored in expressing dissent Resistance literature has taken a new foothold in Sri Lanka as the “Go Home Gota” struggle continues, centred around the demand for the (...)
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What socialists are doing in Ukraine
Denys Pilash is tired. He travelled 600 miles from Ukraine's capital to Lviv to host the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine delegation, then after sleeping on a floor he translated between English and Ukrainian for a conference that overran several hours. With no break he moved from (...)
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Right to weapons - How can leftists support Ukraine?
The left and internationalists must recognize that a front against imperialism is impossible without armed resistance. Russia's invasion in Ukraine is currently the most brazen and cynical imperialist attack in the world. Behind the criticism of arms supplies to Ukraine is the ill-concealed (...)
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Pour aider l'Ukraine, il faut annuler sa dette extérieure
La dette publique de l'Ukraine a explosé après des années de guerre, les autorités européennes et le FMI offrant des prêts en échange de « réformes » favorables aux entreprises. Les Ukrainien-nes demandent l'annulation de la dette, afin de favoriser le redressement futur du pays. De nombreux (...)
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Sri Lanka: A Cabinet sans credibility
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's Cabinet of Ministers is coming into shape and it inspires very little confidence or credibility. Nine Parliamentarians who represented the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers (...)
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Putin's conquest of southeast Ukraine: Vexed questions of ‘negotiations', gotcha moments and real imperial interests
As Ukraine continues to resist Russia's horrific aggression and attempt to conquer and annex the south and east of the country, the quantity of arms being supplied to Ukraine by the United States and other western countries has steadily increased. As the country and people suffering from this (...)
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Sri Lanka: Fuel crisis: Short-term relief in sight
Petrol stocks only sufficient for a few days Diesel stocks on order, continuous supply promised Stop panic buying, Energy Ministry urges Industry and agriculture sector significantly affected Self-employed face severe hardships A telephone call at 3.40 a.m. had rudely awoken 29-year-old Saman (...)
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Shireen Abu Aqleh, une voix impossible à effacer
Le meurtre de la journaliste Shireen Abu Aqleh est un condensé de ce qui caractérise la domination israélienne : sentiment d’impunité et besoin d’effacer l’autre palestinien, peu importe le coût. À […]
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