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The Ligue scores a hit in its fight for a new mass anti-capitalist party.

The chairperson of the Labour Party Pakistan, Nisar Shah, was released this evening from Rawalpindi Adiala jail.

A rally against the State of Emergency in Pakistan was held on a bitterly cold Saturday evening, 17 November, in the political centre of Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, in North-Eastern Spain.

Labour Party Pakistan Chairperson Comrade Nisar Shah Advocate, a leading lawyer was arrested along with dozens of protesting lawyers in Islamabad today during a protest demonstration.

The new web magazine Punto de Vista Internacional is the Spanish language site of the Fourth International and the sister magazine of International Viewpoint.

Following a new wave of arrests in late September, Europe solidaire sans frontières has relaunched the international solidarity campaign that was organized after the arrest of Farooq Tariq and several hundred people in May-June 2007.

After more than 80 days of occupation the workers of the bike factory Bike Systems in Nordhausen Thuringia resumed production in a grass-roots democratic way - the workers brought out a new product, the so-called strike-bike. International solidarity and support for the workers in Nordhausen is needed.

“These gentlemen don’t fear ideas that float in the air, that are written on paper, or that appear in printed or spoken form. What they fear is organization – organized action, organized attempts to bring these ideas to fruition.”

After 15 days imprisonment and numerous appeals for his release, Farooq Tariq has finally been released.

The confrontations between Palestinians in Gaza are the direct consequence of the Israeli occupation and the transformation of the Gaza Strip into a ghetto.