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A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement
21 October 2018, by So Yun Alysha Park
In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women’s movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.
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China

Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?
20 October 2018, by Yu Chunsen
After four decades of rural-to-urban migration, the class identity of more than 280 million rural migrant workers in China remains ambiguous. Many scholars have attempted to capture the transformation of their identity from ‘peasants’ to ‘workers’ by resorting to such labels as ‘new industrial workers’ (xin chanye gongren), ‘semi-proletariat’, ‘full proletariat’, ‘precarious proletariat’ (buwending wuchanzhe), and even ‘Chinese new workers’ (zhongguo xin gongren) (Lee 2007; Lü 2012 and 2014; Pun and Chan 2008; Pun and Lu 2010; Smith and Pun 2017; Standing 2016; Swider 2015; Woronov 2016; Xie 2005; Yang 2010).
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Fourth International

September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International
19 October 2018, by Arthur Nicola, Laurent Ripart, Léon Crémieux, Michael Löwy, Penelope Duggan
This ensemble of articles was originally published as a centre-spread in l’Anticapitaliste weekly newspaper of the NPA in France.
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Palestine/Israel

The implications of the Balfour declaration
20 September 2018, by Gilbert Achcar , Julien Salingue
Below we publish two articles written almost a year ago to mark the centenary of the Balfour declaration, a key moment in the history of the Middle East. The issues raised in the two pieces, respectively by Gilbert Achcar and Julian Salingue, are as least as pertinent today as they were when they were written.
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Israel

Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy
18 September 2018, by B. Skanthakumar
The shock result of the February 2018 local government election, on a high turnout exceeding 75%, has triggered governmental instability and continuing turmoil within the ‘good governance’ touting coalition that rode to power in the presidential election of January 2015, and stabilised itself after the August 2015 parliamentary election.
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Obituary

A last farewell to Mick Woods
16 September 2018, by Lone Degn, Ulf B. Andersson
Mick Woods, a comrade from Britain who had lived in Denmark for more than twenty years, died at the too young age of 64 in July. But its not only in Britain and Denmark that Mick is mourned - the proudest achievement of his political life was his involvement in International Workers’ Aid, a campaign of practical solidarity with multi-ethnic Bosnia. The tribute below, from Ulf B Andersson from Swedish Workers’ Aid, was read at his funeral by former Danish MEP Søren Sondergaard who first met Mick through the campaign. The second piece was written for his memorial meeting in London, also addressed by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell by Danish comrade Lone Degn. Establishing a proper archive for IWA would be the best tribute we could pay to Mick - Eds
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Catalonia

Catalonia’s independence movement :A strategic assessment
5 September 2018
After more than two million people in Catalonia voted to declare independence from the Spanish state in October 2017, the state struck back. The Spanish central government, under the conservative President Mariano Rajoy, dissolved the Catalán government and charged its leaders with crimes of rebellion against the state. Rajoy called new elections in Catalonia for December 2017. In the results of those elections, the pro-independence parties took the small majority of a sharply polarized electorate. The independence movement, the Catalán government, and the Spanish state are currently locked in an impasse.
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Philippines

Muddying the Revolution
3 September 2018, by Alex de Jong
We should be honest about the Communist Party of the Philippines’ record, including its assassinations of left-wing activists.
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Greece

The Troika’s Policy in Greece: Rob the Greek people and give the money to private banks, the ECB, the IMF and the dominant States of the Eurozone
2 September 2018, by Éric Toussaint
On 20 August 2018, the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras, the IMF and the European leaders celebrated the end of the Third Memorandum.
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Syria

Syria’s Disaster, and What’s Next
30 August 2018, by Joseph Daher
More than seven years after the beginning of the Syrian popular uprising, which was gradually transformed into a deadly war with an international character, the situation in the country is catastrophic at all levels. The popular classes are the most affected with continuous suffering.
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A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

Gongyou: The New Dangerous Class in China?

September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International

The implications of the Balfour declaration

Local Government, Local Governance, Local Democracy

A last farewell to Mick Woods

Catalonia’s independence movement :A strategic assessment

Muddying the Revolution

The Troika’s Policy in Greece: Rob the Greek people and give the money to private banks, the ECB, the IMF and the dominant States of the Eurozone

Syria’s Disaster, and What’s Next

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