We, the participants at the Istanbul ESF, affirming that we have a strong engagement aganist all war and occupation and that we are for a politial resolution of the Kurdish issue, have made the following resolution :
In Morocco as elsewhere repression won’t stop the revolt against anti-social policies
21 June 2010Under the impulse of the World Bank and international capitalist institutions, the Moroccan regime started a privatization process of the universities and attacks against the right to studiy. The announcement of the “Emergency plan” to the university at beginning of the academic year, i.e. of the brutal aggravation of these attacks, put a spark to the powder. The class-struggle trade unionists of fight, organised within the UNEM, are at the forefront of the mobilization against the “Emergency plan”.
Denise Comanne 1949-2010
31 May 2010We have learned with immense sadness of the death of our comrade Denise Comanne, last Friday May 28, following a mild heart attack, just after she had participated in a solidarity activity with the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Solidarity against repression in Kazakhstan
3 May 2010On April 27th, Ainur Kurmanov, journalist and political militant, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment for having reported on a strike picket. The picket was organized by the oppositional social movement "Kazakhstan 2012" to protest against the eviction of the poor from their homes.
Neither martial law, nor state of emergency, nor coup d’etat! Democracy and social justice.
14 April 2010Declaration of the Fourth International on Thailand: There must be an end to repression, the censure of the media and the denial of democratic freedoms. The rights to organise, freely associate, strike and demonstrate must be respected.
Motion on attacks on transgender/intersexed people
4 April 2010The Sixteenth World Congress unanimously adopted this resolution.
Against militarization and for human rights in Mexico
28 March 2010The 16th World Congress unanimously adopted this statement condemning the militarization and all its consequences on human rights in Mexico.
On the situation in Sri Lanka
12 March 2010The Sixteenth World Congress of the Fourth International, having heard the Sri Lankan delegation, adopted a statement on the situation.
Solidarity with the Mexican workers’ struggle
10 March 2010The 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.
Make the Cochabamba gathering a new stage in the fight for an anticapitalist response to climate change
7 March 2010Following 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.
