IV536 - September 2019

Female protesters are increasingly facing off against police amid escalating violence during the city’s summer of discontent.
Some say the movement has helped change stereotypes but it has also seen reports of sexual violence and other forms of harassment.

Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.

Jeremy Corbyn encouraged people to take to the streets on Saturday 31 August to protest against Boris Johnson’s attempt to shut down Parliament. A massive crowd filled Whitehall blockading Downing Street vocally demonstrating their opposition to what is widely perceived as a coup by the extreme right of the Tory party.

Demonstrations protesting again the expulsion of the squats in the Exarcheia neighbourhood of Athens were held on Saturday 31 August. We publish a statement by OKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the Fourth International.

BERNIE SANDERS’ CAMPAIGN of four years ago put socialism on the U.S. political agenda for the first time in generations. He’s on the trail again, explaining what a “democratic socialist” vision means, beginning with building mass movements and supporting unions and union organizing.