Workers at the Portuguese Port of Setúbal l returned to work on December 15, drawing to a close a virtual paralysis of the port since November 5.
Urgent Communiqué: Nicaraguan government attacks human rights groups, NGOs, media
19 December 2018, byAlert and Request for International Condemnation: Nicaraguan Government Raids the offices of the principal human rights, non-governmental and media organizations.
Global Compact for Migration does not represent a change in the offensive against migrants and refugees
18 December 2018, byAt the People’s Summit for a Global Pact of Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, held in Marrakech December 8th and 9th of 2018, hosted by La Via Campesina and its member organisations of the Middle East and North Africa (MeNa) Process, the global peasant movement and its allies have issued a scathing critique of the Global Compact on Migration and rejected it.
Macron’s answer: Threats and bread crumbs
12 December 2018, byWE WEREN’T expecting much, as the ministers had been peppering the media for two days...and we were indeed not disappointed. However, Macron’s speech tonight revealed the nature of his policy, even as it falters against the movement of “yellow vests.”
On Saturday, December 8, and after: general mobilization against Macron and his world!
7 December 2018, byFaced with the mobilisation of the yellow jackets, the government began to retreat, announcing the abolition, for the year 2019, of the increase in fuel taxes. The government, which was showing its "inflexibility" just a few days ago, is panicking and trying to put out the fire it started itself.
Publishing Livio Maitan - an update
7 December 2018, byThe call for donations we launched has been a success. Several thousand euros have been donated. In addition, we have received a commitment to donate a considerable amount of labour to finish the translation whch is now moving ahead rapidly. With these donations, the IIRE and Resistance Books can now plan the publication of the book in mid-2019.
Yellow jackets: continue the mobilization against the high cost of living
1 December 2018, byTens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, demonstrated today all over France against the cost of living and against the government, including the cries of “Macron resign!”
The Supreme Court decision is a victory of the rule of law
5 November 2018, by* Blasphemy laws must be reexamined
* Most courageous decision by top judges in favour of most exploited
* AWP welcomes decision of the Supreme Court
History of the Fourth International
27 October 2018, byThis is an important year for the Fourth International – eighty years since its foundation. A short account is published here September 1938 - the founding of the Fourth International and we continue the appeal to help us fund the translation of Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International “Per una storia della IV internazionale – la testimonianza di un comunista controcorrente”. Watch the public meeting with Michael Lowy here
“Per una storia della IV internazionale – la testimonianza di un comunista controcorrente”
11 October 2018, byHelp us publish in English “Towards a history of the Fourth International” by Livio Maitan, published in Italian by Edizioni Alegre, Roma.
