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Religious fundamentalism

Religious fundamentalism in Muslim countries

Farooq Tariq

Countries with Muslim majority are in grip of religious fundamentalism in various forms and shapes. Some countries are more hit than others but this menace is spreading slowly but steadily in all countries. It has emerged as a great danger to the democratic gains that has been achieved by the great uprising of the masses of these countries.

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Greece

The tasks for the left after SYRIZA’s victory

DEA

This statement by DEA (Internationalist Workers’ Left), member of Syriza and the Left Platform within it, was issued on 27 January 2015. It was first published in Greek on the RProject website. The English translation was published by socialistworker.org.

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Africa

What’s Left in Africa?

Reflections on the failure of left, working class movements to take root in most of Africa
Firoze Manji

The early 1950s witnessed an extraordinary sweep of popular mobilisations across the continent inspired by aspirations for emancipatory freedom – an end to the colonial yoke. Across the continent, nationalist parties convinced people that the path to freedom was through political independence.
Since then, many of the gains of independence, which cost the blood and lives of millions in Africa, have been reversed with the privatisation of the commons and public utilities, as well as by dispossessions of land, by unemployment and by the increasing costs of food, rent and other necessities of life. In response, discontent has been growing across the continent, with spontaneous eruptions and mass uprisings that have in some cases resulted in the overthrow of regimes nurtured and nourished by imperialism (e.g. in Tunisia, Egypt and Burkina Faso). In such circumstances, one would have thought that there would have been fertile grounds for the emergence of strong left working class movements across the continent. But why has this not happened?

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