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“The division among their opponents has certainly helped the Houthis survive, but that’s not all. Perhaps the biggest mistake made by Saudi and Emirati officials was to believe their propaganda that the Houthis were puppets of Iran. In fact, the movement’s leaders have mobilized deep religious and social grievances behind their military campaigns, drawing on a decade of experience challenging the Yemeni state before they seized power in 2015.”
read article...In a context where the winds of war blow more strongly every day and the capitalist societies are starting a huge wave of remilitarization, where the war economy already has started, with big inflation rates and cuts to welfare state, health and education systems, it is of crucial importance for the anticapitalist youth to find moments to meet and coordinate.
It was 1984 when the revolutionary youth camp in solidarity with the Fourth International took place for the first time in (...)
Rwanda is becoming a key player for the European Union (EU) both in the fight against immigration and in securing African countries under attack from their rebels.
read article...In a major show of May Day solidarity, several hundred protestors in Peckham, South London managed to block the removal of a coach load of asylum seekers to the prison barge, the Bibby Stockholm. The barge, where an Albanian man killed himself last December and which is also thought to be warehousing torture victims, is expected to be a staging post to Rwanda – despite the fact that it is understood flights are not yet ready to try.
read article...The presidential election campaign has begun in Chad. Everything is being done to ensure that Déby wins despite the worsening difficulties faced by the population.
read article...The powerlessness in which one finds oneself at a given moment, a powerlessness which must never be considered as definitive, cannot dispense one from remaining faithful to oneself, nor can it excuse capitulation to the enemy, whatever mask he may take on. And the most important enemy remains the administrative, police and military apparatus; not the one on the other side, which is our enemy only insofar as it is the enemy of our brothers, but the one who claims to be our defender and (...)
The Executive Bureau of the Fourth International adopted this public statement of political disagreement with the positions of Socialist Action (USA) concerning the war in Ukraine.
“Positions on Ukraine” submitted for discussion and vote to the Political Council of “Anametrisi”, on 19 May 2022.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine caught most observers by surprise. I, for one, didn’t think that the Russian government would be so foolish as to invade. If Ukraine resisted, the Russian military could destroy it with nuclear weapons but couldn’t conquer it with the conventional forces they had deployed to its borders. The Russian ruling class needed a deal, not a war. Ukraine in the European Union and out of NATO, like Finland or Sweden, would have suited it very well. The Russian people certainly didn’t want war.
“In this calamitous situation, we are unable to maintain the Antifascist International Conference on the proposed date.”
- read article...“Therefore, today we stand united, pledging to continue the fight for the rights and welfare of the working class, and in saving our planet and humanity from the destructive capitalist system. Labor Day will always be a day of protest for all of us. So, with the days beyond.”
- read article...“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.”
- read article...Also published at https://freeboris.info/. Signatories who wish to be contacted by the campaign should sign on at this site
- read article...International Viewpoint is published under the responsibility of the Bureau of the Fourth International. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect editorial policy. Articles can be reprinted with acknowledgement, and a live link if possible.
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