IV593 - June 2024

“European politics is still dominated by right-of-centre parties adapting to the reactionary, racist positions of a growing post-fascist far right.”

“Just 150 days from the election, Republicans unite around Trump, despite his recent felony conviction, as Democrats fragment because of the lack of political and moral consistency from Biden. ”

“The fight for abortion isn’t disconnected from a whole range of issues that connect human beings to one another. There is no need to create hundreds of laws governing abortion — just access to good medical care. ”

“The discussions, both formal and informal, that followed the rallies were rich in lessons and showed us that our demands have a real resonance within society. Proof that there is political space for a radical and plural left, which assumes a strategy of rupture with capital and its representatives.”

These weeks see the end of the term for an ineffectual European legislature which served during the worst pandemic of this century, during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and with it, the outbreak of a war on European soil that evokes the worst memories of the world wars of the last century. And as we witness the televised genocide of the Palestinian people, it appears that the international system of liberal governance seems to be collapsing like a house of cards.

Since the end of last week, the news related to the ongoing genocidal war in the Gaza Strip has been overshadowed by the truce project that US President Joe Biden announced on Friday, attributing it to “Israel” without specifying which Israeli governing body had approved it.

“At the same time, a major strike in the state civil service shook the country. However, unlike the widespread recognition of Palestine, the strike was virtually ignored, including by the Norwegian media.”

“From this perspective, if teachers can be said to be proletarianised, it is because they are aware of the degradation involved in translating imagination into an abstract resource for capital. In this sense, the integration of teachers into the proletariat’s ‘class for itself’ is essential.”

“The U.S. Constitution does not prohibit a felon or even a prisoner from being a candidate or being elected to the presidency. The Socialist Eugene V. Debs, while in prison for his anti-war activities, ran for president in 1920.”

Gauche anticapitaliste (“Anticapitalist Left” – Belgian section of the Fourth International) is presenting a list for the European elections, for an anticapitalist alternative worthy of the name. At federal and regional level, we call for a vote for the PTB (Parti du Travail de Belgique), in particular for candidates representing social struggles. Beyond our disagreements, the essential thing is indeed that here and now, only the PTB is in a position to inflict the most monumental slap in the face possible to the right and the far right, while sanctioning this so-called left (the Socialist Party (PS) and Ecolo (Greens) which rolls out the red carpet for them.