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Current Issue: IV402 - July 2008 - Full contents here
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Respect members open discussion
The purpose of this document is to launch a regroupment process, which will culminate in a conference after a period of discussion. It registers the most important areas of agreement we have achieved at the beginning of this discussion. There are other areas, not included, which will have to be the subject of further discussion. - read article...
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Context for the invitation for regroupment
Marxists inside Respect Renewal have initiated a discussion on the possibility of revolutionary regroupment. The initiative has been taken by Respect members from different traditions, including former members of the Socialist Workers Party, and members of Socialist Resistance, and independent Marxists inside Respect. - read article...
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| France
Appeal of the national coordination of action committees for a New Anti-capitalist Party
We are thousands of workers, men and women, from the cities and the countryside, with or without employment, with or without papers, young people, pensioners, precarious workers, activists from political organisations, trade-unions, associations, new and old, who are in the process of making this project a reality. - read article...
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| Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference
The recent conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation did nothing to solve the world food crisis; on the contrary the final statements only reinforce the root causes of that crisis. - read article...
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A progress report to the LCR’s national leadership
Following on the meeting of the National Leadership (DN) of the LCR over the weekend of May 17-18, some elements on the progress of the process of building the new anti-capitalist party (NPA) - read article...
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Recently posted Debate
In the light of the Italian right’s big victory in the April 2008 elections, major debates about strategy are breaking out in the Italian left. Here we publish Cannavò’s speech to the December 2007 conference of Sinistra Critica. - read
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Discussion in the International Socialist Group
When revolutionary Marxists engage in complex processes such as building broad left parties, with all the political pressures that entails, it is essential to reaffirm our long-term strategic objective of building a revolutionary party and its meaning for our practice today. - read
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Since the beginning of the decade important steps have been made in rebuilding the left internationally, following the working class defeats of the ‘80s and ‘90s and the negative impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union. - read
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Recently posted Theory
How is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements? - read
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With the development of the revolutionary process in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the sharp left debates and divisions on overall strategy in countries like Brazil, France and Italy, the issue of revolutionary strategy is coming back on the agenda. - read
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Talk presented March 21 at an International Conference - organized under the name “Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought and Its Contemporary Value” - at Wuhan University by the School of Philosophy and The Institute of Marxist Philosophy in the People’s Republic of China March 20-22, 2006. - read
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Recently posted Documents
The International Committee passed a detailed resolution on climate change. - read
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The IC adopted a further resolution on the development of the Lula government and changes on the Left. - read
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The 15th World Congress of the Fourth International which met in early 2003 recorded a much-changed situation - in world politics and the International itself - compared with the previous Congress in 1995. - read
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News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements
 Pakistan
June 2008
Over 3000 activists and supporters of Labour Party Pakistan took part in rally in Lahore 7 June against the ongoing neoliberal policies of the present Pakistan People’s Party government. - read
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Britain
April 2008
It was with very great sadness that we heard of the death of our comrade Greg Tucker. We knew of course that he was ill and the outlook was not good but that does not attenuate the shock and sadness of the loss. - read
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London’s mayoral election
Political Committee statement
April 2008
Ken Livingstone is unsupportable as a first preference vote. We do however call for a second preference vote for Livingstone against Tory bigot Boris Johnson. - read
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Pakistan
March 2008
Over 1600 workers from Alnoor Sugar Mill Moro, Sind took over the factory today on 12 March 2008. They occupied all the administration departments of the Mill and asked the General Manager (GM) of the Mill to sit on the floor. - read
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Venezuela
Marea Socialista is online
March 2008
A new political space, this website will be an instrument in favor of the development and deepening of the Bolivarian and Latin American revolution towards socialism. - read
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