Salvatore Cannavò pays tribute to Rossana Rosanda “What does Rossana say?”, Dave Kellaway reviews Dan La Botz’s “what if” novel Trotsky in Tijuana in “ Prophet Prolonged….?”, and we publish an excerpt from Kumari Jayawardena’s classic Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World “The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East”.
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- 25 October – Elsewhere in International Viewpoint
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France
Our pain is immense, and the scavengers are there
31 October, by Ludivine Bantigny, Ugo PalhetaHorror, shock, dread : this is what we feel faced with the assassination of Samuel Paty, who taught of history and geography at the Collège du Bois d’Aulne in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by a fanatical murderer. This death is atrocious. It is atrocious in absolute terms, the death of a man killed in the middle of the street. It is atrocious because of the appalling way in which the murder was committed: by beheading. And also, because its author justified it by referring to the lesson given by Samuel Paty on freedom of expression, during which he presented his students with a caricature of Mohammed ; that a lesson could lead to a murder is unbearable.
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Indonesia
Indonesia Is in the Middle of a New Protest Wave
30 October, by Alex de JongIndonesia’s new Omnibus Law was passed earlier this month, enacting a major series of counterreforms to workers’ rights and the environment. In protest, tens of thousands of workers went on strike, and in dozens of cities, students took to the streets.
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Chile
Popular triumph in Chile referendum
29 October, by Karina Nohales, Pablo AbufomThe popular will has been forcefully expressed in a historic plebiscite. Rather than a finishing point, this huge triumph should represent the signal for starting the construction of a new Chile
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Women’s rights in Poland
Poland Is in Revolt Against Its New Abortion Ban
28 October, by Ewa MajewskaLast Friday, Poland’s Constitutional Court banned almost all abortion, as part of a wider Catholic-conservative offensive against women’s rights. But the ruling has already sparked strikes and blockades across Poland — and the working-class women least able to afford a clandestine abortion are leading the revolt.
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Belarus
Police violence on a mass scale in Belarus
27 October, by Siarhei BiareishykSince the election, it has been two months of sustained leaderless protests, police violence, and local self-organization.
After relatively peaceful Sunday marches of past several weeks, amounting each time to 100+thousand people, Sunday 11 October saw resumption of police violence on the mass scale.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Pakistan
October 14 and the Sparks of Workers’ Movement in Pakistan
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France
France’s Demonization of Muslims Is Getting Worse
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Switzerland
An exemplary feminist mobilization
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USA
Next steps for Black Lives Matter movement, elections and beyond
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Bolivia
All power to the peoples of Bolivia
Recently posted Debate
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Spanish state
Radiance and sunset of Podemos - reasons for a farewell
16 September, by Manuel GarÃread article...The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have been “Radiance and decline of Podemos ... as an emancipatory political project.”
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Party building
Anticapitalist strategy and the question of organization
12 June, by Julia Camararead article...No matter how much time passes, or how often history is declared to have ended, the debate over socialist strategy and organization always returns. This foundational question appeared in embryo at the very start of the workers movement in the nineteenth century and was raised explicitly by Lenin when he described his perspective as “tactics as plan” and when revolutionaries split with social-democracy during World War I.
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Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards?
Self-Extinction of Neoliberalism? Don’t Bet on It.
4 May, by Gilbert Achcarread article...For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds and in conjunction with central banks to bail out entire sectors of the economy and prevent a general economic collapse. The ongoing rescue operations necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has already reached a much higher scale than the one deployed against the 2007–08 financial crisis. These operations clash with the basic tenets of neoliberalism in that they constitute a massive regulatory intervention by the state in reining back the market, whereas deregulation and market “survival of the fittest” are central to neoliberal ideology.
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Ecosocialism
The role of planning in the ecosocialist transition – a contribution to the debate
25 April, by Michael Löwyread article...The semiannual French review Les Possibles, a publication of Attac France, in its most recent issue (No 23) features a number of articles on planning for the ecological and social transition. Most are addressed to the issue of socialist planning vs. capitalist markets that was prominent in the debates of 20th century socialism. The contribution by Michael Löwy puts this debate in the ecosocialist framework that has emerged in this century. My translation of it is published below.
– Richard Fidler
France
After the horror in Nice, reject the logic of war
NPA statement
October 2020
On 29 October another horrific attack left three dead in a church in Nice, by a man reportedly of Tunisian descent. In response, President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France “is under attack” and, according to The Guardian, ordered the military mobilized “to protect all places of worship, particularly Catholic churches, for the religious holiday of All Saints Day on Sunday. The number of soldiers on the streets is to be raised from 3,000 to 7,000 and troops will be deployed outside schools for the return to class on Monday.”
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After the drama of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine: anger, solidarity, rejection of amalgams
October 2020
“The NPA will join initiatives to express mourning, anger and solidarity following this tragedy, while refusing any logic of national unity with the false friends of teachers and those who advocate a repressive headlong rush and increased stigmatization of Muslims. ”
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CADTM rejoices in the united anti-fascist mobilization in Athens on 7 October 2020 and the judgement against the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party
October 2020
The CADTM congratulates demonstrators for the success of the united antifascist mobilisation in Athens this Wednesday 7 October, as well the Athens penal court for its decision to label the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party as a ‘criminal organization’.
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Daily Dawn editorial on GB politics takes up the case of Baba Jan and others
October 2020
This editorial was published in the English-language Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn on 8 October 2020.
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World Congress in Defense of Public Education, Sept 26-27
September 2020
The following invitation to participate in the First World Congress in Defense of Public Education and Against Educational Neoliberalism was written by a broad coalition of educators in Latin America and Europe. Educators from all over the world are encouraged to register and take part. For more information about how to take part, email: congresomundialdeeducacion2020@gmail.com. First published in Spanish by Otras Voces en EducacÃon, translated by No Borders News.
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