Two important contributions on feminism from Fatou Sow on “The challenges of feminism in Senegal” and Dianne Feeley who discusses “Before & After Roe: Scary Times, Then & Now”. Two tributes to ”Daniel Pereyra, a Life Well Lived ”, by Jaime Pastor and Roberto Montoya. Florian Wilde assesses “Ahmed Shawki (1960–2023) ”.
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Russia/Ukraine
Freedom for Maksym Butkevych and for the other prisoners of the Russian army!
22 March, by European network for solidarity with Ukraine“The pressure of democratic public opinion is essential to save Maksym and the other prisoners sentenced by puppet courts or who are in the hands of the Russian army.”
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Iran
The Collapse of a Hybrid Regime: How the Iranian Authorities Lost the Population’s Support
21 March, by Nikita Smagin“Iran in its current situation has become a powder keg. Given the depth of its internal contradictions, which permeate all levels of society, domestic protests aren’t going anywhere.”
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USA
American Bank Failures Once Again Threaten Everyone
20 March, by Dan La Botz“Both the banking crisis of 2008 and the current one reveal the irrationality of the capitalist economic system based on private property in both the means of production and finance.”
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Geopolitics
“The world situation is that of a new cold war”
19 March, by Gilbert Achcar , Thierry Labica“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”
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France
Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him
18 March, by Léon Crémieux“We must, as has been the case for the last two months, continue to build a social balance of forces equal to the popular rejection of Macron’s reform. Today, he has his back to the wall, a situation that was unforeseeable a few months ago.”
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Britain
Tory budget – behind the gloss it is the Same Old Tories
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Nigeria
Election in Nigeria: between disenchantment and hope
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International Women’s Day in Russia
Feminist resistance in Russia
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Tunisia
France exports its racist theories to Tunisia
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USA
Chicago Mayoral Election Will Be a Battle Between Left and Right
Recently posted Debate
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Ukraine and Europe
Against the Russian war of aggression, the urgency of a radically decolonial left
22 December 2022, by Catherine Samaryread article...This contribution highlights the effects of this war in the opposite direction to what Putin was seeking, both in Ukraine - on the basis of popular mobilizations for dignity - but also in its Eurasian neighbourhood, as well as in NATO and the EU.
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War in Ukraine
For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine
8 December 2022, by Gilbert Achcarread article...“The Ukrainian left should also determine its position on the terms for ending the war, as it cannot adhere unconditionally to the view of Ukraine’s government.”
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War in Ukraine
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital
16 September 2022, by Christian Zeller, Denys Pilash, Hanna Perekhoda, Ilya Budraitskis, Zakhar Popovych, Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewskiread article...“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.”
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War in Ukraine
Why Russia’s Political Capitalists Went to War – and How the War Could End Their Rule
4 September 2022, by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat , Volodymyr Ishchenkoread article...Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. However, this war, depending on what happens on the battlefield, may equally bring about a fall or a radical transformation of the whole post-Soviet order. Interview by Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat.
By the end of February, you claimed (...)
France
Victory is possible against Macron, his reform and his 49.3!
March 2023
Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.
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Pensions: this Saturday 11 February in the streets! Strikes and blockades until total withdrawal!
NPA statement on Pensions struggle
February 2023
“To win, we must continue to organize, to put maximum pressure by blocking the economy.”
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Call for international action on 1 February
January 2023
Anti*Capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti trade union legislation.
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Stop the coupist offensive!
January 2023
“The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.”
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Portuguese nurses in solidarity with the NHS nurses strike
December 2022
“The reasons for this historic standstill are not unknown to us: every day we feel the disastrous effects of disinvestment in the public health service, the inadequacy of ratios or the loss of wages.”
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