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• Iran
  

  Resumption of Bombing and Internal Crisis in Iran

  17 August, by Babak Kia

  The ceasefire between the US and Iran was shattered around the question of control of the Strait of Hormuz. As the US bombing resumes, divisions are deepening at the top of the Islamic Republic, with no way out for the people of Iran.

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• USA
  

  Revoking TPS: Trump Escalates Racist Assault

  16 August, by Malik Miah

  TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States was overturned by the government, following a June 25 ruling by the Supreme Court to allow the termination.

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• Latin America
  

  The spectre of the far right is haunting Latin America

  15 August, by Eduardo Lucita

  Far-right movements have come to power in numerous countries across the region. They are linked to Trumpism; resisting them requires the broadest possible coordination of these resistance movements at both local and regional levels.

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• Spanish State
  

  Ceuta: the boundary of the right to have rights

  14 August, by Miguel Urbán Crespo

  Last Friday [31 July], thousands of people swam across the border to reach the autonomous city of Ceuta. This enclave of some 83,000 people received, in a matter of 24 hours, just over 50,000 more people, exhausted from a migratory journey that has caused the deaths of at least 100 in the last two days. In summer, arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla by sea increase significantly, as sea fog hinders early detection on the coast by the Civil Guard. But no one in the government seemed to foresee a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude, with significant political repercussions that extend far beyond the usual media headlines.

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• Ukraine
  

  The Wrong Lever: Europe, Ukraine, and the Refugee Question

  13 August, by Adam Novak

  EU leaders are moving towards removal of asylum rights for Ukrainian men aged 23-60, to improve conscription and functioning of essential services in the fifth year of Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialist aggression. The Zelenskiy government asked for this change. But that does not make the policy right.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Ukraine

  In Kyiv, the street makes its voice heard

• Italy

  The battle for the beaches in Italy

• Morocco:

  New escalation of repression in the face of rising resistance

• Tunisia

  Mobilizations amid water and electricity crisis in Tunisia

• Balkans

  The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans

Recently posted Features

• Part 8 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  In 1922 creditor powers again attempt to subjugate the Soviets

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Western governments presented a full list of demands aimed at solving in their favour the litigation over debt repudiation and expropriations decreed by the Soviet government. Those demands were presented in Genoa on 15 April 1922, five days into the conference, in a document entitled “London Experts’ Report on the Russian issue.” [1]

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• Part 7 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  Diplomatic manoeuvers around Russian debt repudiation

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  For five weeks in April and May 1922, a summit conference was held. Britain’s prime minister, Lloyd George, played a central role in it, as did Louis Barthou, the minister of the French president Raymond Poincaré.

  The main aim of the meeting was to persuade Soviet Russia [2] both to acknowledge the debts it had repudiated in 1918 and to cease calling for a global revolution.

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• Part 6 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  Russian loans never die

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  Even though Russian bonds were repudiated by the Soviet government in February 1918, they were still traded right up until the 1990s.

  French government policy and that of other governments was directly related to this life after death.

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• Part 9 of the Series: Centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Repudiation of Debt

  The Soviet counter-attack: the Treaty of Rapallo, 1922

  7 October 2017, by Éric Toussaint

  The London report presented in the previous chapter was such a deliberate provocation on the part of Western powers that the Soviet delegation immediately got in touch with the German delegation, which Paris and London had somehow prevented from fully attending the Genoa Conference. France and Britain were hoping that they could coax the Soviet Russians into accepting the conditions mentioned above or, at least some of them, to strengthen their position when negotiating with Germany afterwards. The Russian issue clearly was a priority.

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