In the final statement by the constitutional council on Saturday 18 March, 11 candidates for the first round of the French presidential elections were validated. The efforts of the NPA to get more than 500 signatures in a vigorous campaign for the democratic right to stand met with success obtaining 523 sponsorships form local mayors and regional councillors, as well as 50 sent spontaneously to the Council.
Fund drive off to a flying start
4 March 2017, byThe fund drive launched for International Viewpoint on 20 February 1.6 million reasons to help IV raise £1,600 is off to a flying start thanks to some generous contributions from readers.
Transcribing Daniel Bensaïd
13 February 2017Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) was one of the most innovative contemporary Marxists, a leading figure of May ’68, and an influential French public intellectual. Bensaïd wrote and lectured widely on burning issues of theory, strategy, history and philosophy in a number of works such as Marx for Our Times, Strategies of Resistance, and a moving autobiography - An Impatient Life: A Political Memoir.
The Asset Freeze of Nazra for Feminist Studies is not an end to its Feminist work
3 February 2017North Cairo Elementary Court decided on 11 January 2017, to freeze the assets of feminist and woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan, Founder and Executive Director of “Nazra for Feminist Studies”, freeze the assets of “Nazra for Studies” Company, and to freeze the assets of “Nazra for Feminist Studies”.
Protests to continue if social media activists are not released
22 January 2017Over 200 activists associated with civil society organizations and political parties held a demonstration on Thursday outside the Lahore Press Club to call for the release of five social media activists who were abducted in the last week.
No to the Gas Hike! Out with Enrique Peña Nieto!
19 January 2017, byThe up-to-20-percent hike in gasoline, diesel, natural gas, and electricity prices starting January 1, 2017 is a brutal blow to the pockets of all working people. Since these sources of energy are inputs for everything produced, an increase in prices of all basic products and services is imminent.
The Ecuadorean government desisted in closing Acción Ecológica
18 January 2017Dearest friends,
We want to publicly acknowledge the thousands of letters, embraces and messages that we have received from every corner of the world. We have, indeed, received an answer that for many, was unexpected: the Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica.
For the immediate and safe recovery of Salman Haide, disappeared poet and activist
14 January 2017, byThe Awami Workers Party (AWP) Deputy-General Secretary Ismat Shahjahan expressed deep concern about the mysterious disappearance of renowned literary figure, university lecturer and progressive activist Salman Haider from the outskirts of Islamabad on the night of Friday January 6.
The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
3 January 2017OUR MANDATE HAS not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
The Foundation of an International Socialist Organisation (ISO)
9 December 2016The International Socialist Left (ISL) and the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB) have merged.
