Dave Kellaway discusses “Debate on the Left in Britain – towards a new broad party?”. Promise Li considers “Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation” and Jaime Pastor examines “Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of “reactionary acceleration””.
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USA
Trump’s Cabinet of Dangerous Fanatics and Kooks
21 November, by Dan La Botz“Comics and journalists have referred to the new cabinet as “Trump’s clown car.” The clowns, however are not funny; they’re frightening.”
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Netherlands
Amsterdam riots and the wolf who cried antisemitism
20 November, by Alex de JongIsrael’s Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ignited violence in Amsterdam, but the far-right is victimising them to repress Palestine solidarity, writes Alex de Jong.
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USA
USA: Trump’s victory: a major warning
19 November, by Daniel TanuroThe clear-cut election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America is a major development in the process of right-wing and extreme right-wing extremism underway in global capitalism. At a time when neoliberalism has deepened abysmal social inequalities that hit women and racialised people the hardest; at a time when the ruling classes are wallowing more and more in an opulence whose legal and illegal sources are so mixed that they can no longer be distinguished; at a time when the climate catastrophe and the collapse of biodiversity caused by the race to make a profit from fossil capital are hitting millions of poor people hard and threatening to take them with them; at a time when the race for hegemony is increasingly taking on the hideous face of neo-colonial supremacism and the savage appropriation of wealth at the cost of monstrous massacres.
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Middle East
Palestine: Islamophobia and resistance to the Israeli occupation
18 November, by Louisa D‘There was no such thing as Palestinians… They did not exist.’ This statement by Golda Meir in 1969 is the essence of what, fifty years later, would lead to the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Despite live media coverage by its victims and a solidarity movement organised in many countries, it has continued unabated for a year.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Junta steps up repression
17 November, by Paul MartialTo make up for its inability to improve the security situation in Burkina Faso, the ruling junta is stepping up its repressive course. On 24 August, nearly 400 civilians were killed by jihadists in the village of Barsalogho in north-central Burkina Faso. This tragedy sheds a harsh light on the real situation in the country, far removed from the triumphalist rhetoric of the putschists.
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...and the rest of the current issue
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Palestine
Palestine: The Resistance
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Germany
Germany: government breaks up
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USA/Middle East
Trump and the Middle East: What Lies Ahead?
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Martinique
“The high cost of living in Martinique is the consequence of the colonial system”
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USA
Trump’s Election: A Decisive Victory for Republicans, Now Resistance Begins
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War in Ukraine
Ban cluster bombs – Ukraine is no exception
16 July 2023, by Fred Leplatread article...“Anti-capitalists and internationalists support unconditionally the people of Ukraine in their armed resistance to liberate their country from the Russian genocidal invasion. But the support for Ukraine is not necessarily uncritical.”
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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.”
Marxism/Fourth International
Publishing a new collection of writings by Daniel Bensaïd
October 2024
New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France’s most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention.
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The Summer ‘Uni’, a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation
September 2024
The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism’ with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.
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Statement on Palestine
Fourth Internation Youth Camp
September 2024
This solidarity statement was adopted by the 39th edition of the Fourth International youth camp in France in July 2024.
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People’s Struggle Alliance Election Fund
August 2024
The People’s Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people’s uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle’) in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘system change’. The Socialist People’s Forum (SPF), supporters of the Fourth International in Sri Lanka, is among its founders.
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Solidarity and unity now
August 2024
Anti*Capitalist Resistance statement on far right violence sweeping Britain and Northern Ireland in August 2024
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