IV597 - October 2024

For the past month, the popular movement against the high cost of living in Martinique has been gathering momentum. Marcel Sellaye, an activist in the GRS (Groupe révolution socialiste) and a former leader of the Respé (Résistance ESPoir, Émancipation) list, explains the reasons for the anger and how the movement is continuing.

Demonstrations against illegal gold mining in Ghana are becoming a major political issue, highlighting the corruption of the country’s ruling elites. With just two months to go before the country’s presidential elections, the environmental issue is entering the debate as citizens mobilise against illegal gold mining.

Joseph Daher explains why celebrating Israel’s assassination Hezbollah’s Nasrallah is short sighted when it comes to Syrians’ struggle against Assad’s regime.

Interview published by Megaphone (Beirut) on 9 October 2024. Translated from Arabic.

Dave Kellaway looks at the 12 key takeaways from the Labour government’s first hundred days.

With just a little more than two weeks until the November 5 U.S. presidential election that pits vice-president Kamala Harris against former president Donald Trump, the contest remains too close to call. A variety of issues, from conspiracy theories to assassination attempts complicate the campaign and sometimes confuse and mislead both voters and poll-takers.

In memory of 22 September 1988, the day on which Semira Adamu, an undocumented migrant activist, was killed by two police officers during an attempted deportation.
For freedom of movement and settlement and the abolition of fascist migration policies.

Last week, massive demonstrations took place throughout Argentina in defence of public universities and against President Milei’s veto of a law passed by parliament to fund them.

When four Americans were stabbed in Jilin on June 10, I bought the CCP foreign ministry spokesperson’s comment that it was an ‘isolated case’ [1]. Then when another knife attack targeted at a Japanese school bus in Suzhou happened in the same month [2], I could still tell myself that China has a huge population so there must be more lunatics than smaller countries. Nevertheless, I started doubting my judgement after a Japanese school kid got killed in Shenzhen in September. This month, the victims of latest cowardly attack carried out by Chinese murderer were three kindergarteners in Zurich and the tragedy happened on China’s National Day. Now I am quite sure that this is a seriously worrying trend.

I remember Kenya’s June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer in soccer games) and loud blasts of teargas.