News from around the world

The Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International, having heard the Sri Lankan delegation, adopted a statement on the situation.

The World Congress of the Fourth International adopted a statement of solidarity with the Mexican Electrical Workers’ Union (SME) and the National Mine, Metal and Allied Workers’ Union (SNTMMSRM), engaged in a significant battle of the class struggle in Mexico.

Following its long and rich debate on the resolution "Climate change and our tasks", the Sixteenth World Congress adopted a motion outlining its orientation to the Cochabamba summit on climate.

The Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International adopted a motion of solidarity with the peoples of the Peruvian forest in the challenge to the government.

Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso, historic figure of the Fourth International in Bolivia, died in January. We publish this short notice now and will come back to a longer appreciation at a later date.

The decision of the local NPA in the Vaucluse region in France to include a headscarf-wearing candidate on its list for the regional elections has caused a lot of debate in the French media. Here Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson of the NPA, corrects inaccurate reporting of his words.

Commemoration meetings for Daniel Bensaïd have taken place in Paris, Toulouse, Porto Alegre, London and Lisbon.

With US military activities growing fast in Africa, including the setting up of Africom, and with the new African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (known as the Pelindaba Treaty) now in force, the huge base on Diego Garcia becomes a key issue.

Four LPP leaders died in a road accident yesterday in Baluchistan. They were coming back after meetings to organise home-based women workers. Three of them are shown in this photograph, taken at Khanis Pur Murree last year during a socialist school.

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