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• Ukraine
  

  The Streets Are Asking Questions the Leaders Cannot Answer in Ukraine

  24 July, by Adam Novak

  The mobilisation in the streets forced a backdown on Zelensky.

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• China
  

  China Hit by “Deadly Weather Events”

  23 July, by Pierre Rousset

  During the first ten days of July, cyclones (typhoons), tornadoes, storms, severe weather, floods, and landslides wreaked havoc in the central and southern parts of the country—and beyond. China is facing extreme weather events intensified by the climate crisis.

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• Brazil
  

  Super El Niño: Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold

  22 July, by Israel Dutra

  “To confront the climate catastrophe—accelerated by neo-fascist denialism—the emergency brake lies in the struggle and mobilization of the social majority”

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• Puerto Rico
  

  Some Reflections on the Water Crisis in Puerto Rico

  21 July, by Manuel Rodríguez Banchs

  “Overcoming the social and environmental problems that afflict us and reversing the reversible effects of the climate crisis is impossible under the rules of this economic system. The climate crisis is perhaps the most dramatic example. It is not possible to address the climate crisis without making the energy sector—as well as water management—public property and administering it democratically with the dual objective of satisfying our needs and reducing environmental impact. ”

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• USA
  

  Trump Says U.S. Elections Rife with Fraud, Demands New Election Law, May Send Troops to Polling Places. Is He Preparing a Coup?

  20 July, by Dan La Botz

  In a half-hour, prime-time national speech, President Donald Trump claimed that U.S. elections are vulnerable to foreign interference, to massive non-citizen voting, and to fraud. He called upon Congress to pass what he calls the SAVE America Act, though its actual name is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

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...and the rest of the current issue

• Belgium

  “This mobilization has awakened something in the youth”

• Geopolitics

  Latin America: A hostage to Trump’s United States

• Climate

  Record-breaking heatwave in Europe: Does the continent have a new climate?

• Syria

  Frustration and anger rise in the streets in Syria

• IVP 617 PDF

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Recently posted Features

• History of the CADTM’s anti- debt Policies

  Part 1: The history of the CADTM and its struggle against illegitimate debt: Origins

  15 August 2016, by Benjamin Lemoine, Éric Toussaint

  This interview presents the genealogy of the anti-debt struggle, the campaigns for debt cancellation, the empirical foundation, the political battles and the concepts of the “illegitimate”, “illegal” or “odious” nature of public debt. In other words, how it is necessary for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) – formerly known as the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt – to ally with opposition forces and social movements, where the concepts and the people involved can challenge and overpower debt and its "system” once the government hears their voice. Yet, for CADTM the outright priority is to fortify the activities described below rather than lobbying.

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• Marxism

  “The Hammer Blow of the Revolution”

  31 July 2016, by Michael Löwy

  Rosa Luxemburg’s defense of socialist democracy and her critique of the Bolsheviks in her pamphlet The Russian Revolution (1918) are well known. Less well known and often forgotten is her critique of bourgeois democracy, its limits, its contradictions, and its narrow and partial character. We propose to examine this critical line of thought in some of her political writings without any pretentions to completeness.

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• Our History

  Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China

  14 June 2016, by Charlie Hore

  It’s 40 years since workers, students and school-students broke the oppressive regime that had come out of the Cultural Revolution in China and forced a change of direction on their rulers with mass protests in the spring of 1976.

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• Part Two of the series “Greece and debt: two centuries of interference from creditors”

  Continued debt slavery from the late 19th century to the Second World War

  13 June 2016, by Éric Toussaint

  This series of articles analyses Greece’s major debt crises by placing them in the international economic and political context, an approach that is systematically absent from the dominant narrative and very rarely present in critical analyses. Since 1826, a series of major debt crises have profoundly marked the lives of the Greek people. Each time, European Powers formed a coalition to impose new debts in order to repay the earlier ones. This coalition of Powers dictated policies to Greece that corresponded to their own interests and those of the few big private banks and large fortunes. Each time, those policies were aimed at extracting the tax resources necessary for repayment of the debt and entailed a reduction in social spending as well as decreased public investments. In a variety of ways, Greece and the Greek people were denied the exercise of their own sovereignty. With the complicity of the Greek ruling classes, this kept Greece in a subordinate, peripheral condition.

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