WE had said that after Genoa nothing would be as it was before. Now, after the terrible deeds in New York and Washington, we must again affirm, but in an opposite sense, that nothing will be as it was before.
An end to immunity
10 December 2001, byThe Israeli Knesset has voted to strip Palestinian member Azmi Bishara of his parliamentary immunity. The following article by our Jerusalem correspondent was written for the July issue of News From Within, before the Knesset took its decision.
The angry vote
10 December 2001, byOctober’s mid-term elections in Argentina marked a significant turn in one of the deepest crises the country has ever faced. After a growing wave of increasingly militant social struggles, and with the prospect of total financial meltdown lurking just around the corner, everyone expected the ruling Alliance parties to take a beating at the polls.
Autonomy, war, globalisation
10 December 2001, byIn the case of the two main insurgent forces, the FARC and the ELN, their respective 40 and 30 years of struggle for the popular and socialist cause is starting to be clouded by an ongoing sequence of errors with respect to the social movements.
Problems of far left recomposition
10 December 2001, bySome profound changes in the workers’ movement and in class-consciousness have taken place in Greek society over the last 10 years. Xenophobia and racism have developed as "natural" reflexes to big waves of immigration.
The strange death of Solidarnosc
10 December 2001, byThe results of the Polish parliamentary elections of September 23, 2001 have profoundly restructured the country’s political landscape. Polish observers are generally agreed that what has happened amounts to a genuine earthquake, albeit a limited one, in three respects.
Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001)
10 December 2001, by ,Charlie van Gelderen was the last survivor of those who attended the 1938 Founding Conference of the Fourth International in Paris. He attended as an observer on behalf of South African Trotskyists, though he was already living in Britain by that time. He died peacefully at home in Cambridge on October 26 after a short illness at the age of 88, still a fully paid up and until very recently an active member of the International Socialist Group (British section of the Fourth International).
The future of the revolutionary left
10 December 2001, by ,Alain Krivine, main spokesperson of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), spoke in July at the London ’Marxism’ event, organised by the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), on the ’future of the revolutionary left’. Here we publish his speech, together with the contribution made in the discussion by Alex Callinicos, an SWP leader.
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