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• Arab Spring
  

  From the Ashes of the Arab Spring

  14 January, by Gilbert Achcar

  Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
  On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known as the Arab Spring — a democratic upsurge across the region, which, (…)

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• Municipal socialism
  

  How Can Socialists Run Cities – will Mamdani show us the way?

  13 January, by Iain Bruce

  Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and beyond. It has also reignited debate about the strategic choices facing socialists elected to local government, and eventually to national governments too.

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• iran
  

  A new popular uprising in Iran

  12 January, by Sarah Selami

  “Faced with these mobilizations, the authorities have responded with repression, mass arrests and violence. However, the experience of the movements of 2017, 2019 and 2022 shows that this strategy has never made it possible to impose submission in the long term. The current protests are thus part of a continuity of recurrent protests. ”

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• USA
  

  ICE Murder of Minneapolis Woman Leads to Grief, Anger, Sparks National Protests

  11 January, by Dan La Botz

  Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of Renèe Nicole Good, a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tens of thousands joined “ICE Out For Good” protests in a thousand towns and cities on January 10 and 11. In New York protestors signs read, “Abolish ICE Now!”, “Masks Off! No Secret Police.”, “Trump Must Go Now”. Passing in front of Trump Tower protestors shouted, “Fuck Trump!”

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• Poland
  

  Valeo Poland - a first success

  10 January, by NPA Auto Critique

  Valeo workers in Poland have secured pay rises and commitments on working conditions. This initial success demonstrates the effectiveness of collective action and international solidarity.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Venezuela

  Trumpist recolonization and the coming resistance in Venezuela

• Philippines

  From Flood Fund Plunder to Environmental Plunder – On the Moral, Political, and Ecological Crises Shaping the Philippines

• Palestine

  The ethnic cleansing of Gaza by NGOs and Somaliland

• France

  Feminist struggles against the far right and repression

• Ukraine

  The reality of the front belies the Kremlin’s little music

Recently posted Features

• Spanish state

  The long May 68 in the Spanish state

  21 November 2018, by Manuel Garí

  In the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.

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• Internationalism

  Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism

  21 November 2018, by Catherine Samary

  As if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.

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• Pakistan

  50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution

  21 November 2018, by Lal Khan

  Fifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.

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• Fourth International

  Livio Maitan: History wrinkle-free

  16 November 2018, by Daniel Bensaïd

  Daniel Bensaïd wrote the Preface to Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente published in 2006.

  Resistance Books and the IIRE have launched an appeal to fiund publication in English. It has almost reached the first goal of 5,000 euros, thanks to a substantial donation in the form of translation work.

  To give an idea of the book, and of the person of Livio, we publish here the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s preface.

  We hope to raise 1,000 euros more to pay for the design and promotion of the book. Details on how to make a donation can be found below.

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