The summer of 2019 will go down as a major moment in Puerto Rico’s history.
A second wind to defeat Macron
20 January 2020, byThe movement for the withdrawal of the pension counter-reform entered its 46th day of strike at the RATP and SNCF on 18 January, the 46th day of mobilisation in various forms across the country.
“The priority for the Left Bloc is clear: to increase the income of those who live by their labour”
19 January 2020, by“What is missing in this budget is not just the willingness to negotiate, which the government demonstrated very late. It lacks answers and a strategy for today’s problems”, said Catarina Martins, in her speech in the 2020 budget debate.
“This struggle is historic” - striking railworkers speak
18 January 2020, by ,As the strike movement in France continues we republish testimonies from two striking railworkers from the NPA newspaper L’Anticapitaliste.
Megafires in Australia: in the image of capitalist excess
17 January 2020, byAs of 3 January, the forest “mega-fires” ravaged 60,000 km², the equivalent of twice the size of Belgium. 500 million animals were charred in the disaster, say scientists at the University of Sydney. New Zealand’s glaciers are covered in soot. Temperature records have been broken, January and February could exceed 50°C in the shade. Nothing is under control. These fires are out of the ordinary.
Remembering and Forgetting: No to War with Iran!
16 January 2020, byThe criminal negligence of the Iranian regime and military — shooting down a passenger airliner that had just taken off from their own Tehran airport — should immediately remind us of the dozens, if not hundreds of occasions when United States forces have caused the same kind of civilian collateral carnage.
The Lebanese October revolution against sectarian realism and neoliberal authoritarianism:
15 January 2020, byAs the Lebanese revolutionary uprising enters its third month, the ancien régime has already unleashed its counterrevolutionary practices in all its forms. Fear mongering of pre-October 17 sectarian tensions alongside blaming the impending economic collapse on the continuous protests and reviving the spectre of the civil war are rife on Lebanese TV channels as members of the Lebanese ruling class battle to hold on to a sinking structure. Although the momentum is not as prominent as it used to be during the first weeks of the revolution, slogans, chants and demands are witnessing a sharp politicization that opens endless possibilities for class conscious struggles as the anger of the masses are directed at the main perpetrator of the economic crisis, local banks. Mattia Gallo, from Global Project, interviews Elia El Khazen on the recent developments and the “Nationalize the banks” campaign of which he is a member.
A progressive government born under the gun in Spanish state
14 January 2020, byAmid rising tensions in a badly fragmented parliament (including 10 parliamentary groups and 22 parties), the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, won a very tight second vote (167 to 165 with 18 abstentions) to be confirmed prime minister of the first coalition government in the history of post-Franco democracy, which has until now rotated between two dominant parties.
The movement is holding on...but not spreading
13 January 2020, byTaken as a whole, the current movement against Macron’s planned pension reform is now on a par with the three main social movements of recent decades launched in response to pension reform: those of 1995, 2003 and 2010.
Was Marx an ecosocialist? A reply to Kohei Saito.
12 January 2020, byKohei Saito’s book Marx’s Ecosocialism is an essential contribution to the current debates on Marxism and the environmental question. What makes Saito’s work particularly interesting is that it traces the evolution of Marx’s thought from a “productivist” to an “anti-productivist” vision of human development, in particular by incorporating natural limits into perspectives for agriculture. This historical approach allows the author to transcend the quarrels between Marxists who see Marx’s ecology as a glass which is empty, half empty, half full or full.