A continuing displacement crisis and growing discontent with martial law risk creating yet another conflict.
After the earthquake, the social quake
4 May 2018, byThe Iranian working class, long suppressed and brutally exploited, burst onto the scene in early January of 2018, shaking Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime. Iran was shaken by protests against rising food prices, mass unemployment, growing social inequality, the brutal austerity agenda and political repression. The protests began on Thursday (December 28th) in the second largest city in Iran, Mashhad (a holy city, home to the shrine of Imam Reza), then spread to about forty towns and villages in the country, as well as to the capital Tehran.
Oppose the Continuous and Deadly Repression of Palestinians in Gaza
3 May 2018These are not “confrontations” or “clashes” as the mainstream media and Western governments are saying. We are dealing with the deliberate crimes of an occupying, colonial and racist force against unarmed protesters.
“Things could go into a spin very quickly in the Macron camp”
2 May 2018, byOlivier Besancenot is a spokesperson for France’s Nouveau parti anticapitaliste (NPA - New Anti-Capitalist Party). He was interviewed by Mathieu Dejean of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles on 19 April 2018. Since then the movement has continued, meeting with severe repression in evicting occupations from universities and on the occasion of May Day demonstrations. See the NPA statement of 2 May below the article.
1968 seen from Britain
1 May 2018, byNone of the key events of 1968 happened in Britain, but they impacted dramatically on the configuration of the Left. One socialist journal said it was “the year the ice cracked”. But more realistically it was the culmination of a process of left political renewal started in 1956 when the near-simultaneous Hungarian revolution and the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt shook the British Left to its core, resulting in the emergence of the “first” New Left.