https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Between-rumours-clamours-and-social-networks-a-social-explosion https://internationalviewpoint.org/Between-rumours-clamours-and-social-networks-a-social-explosion 2017-02-15T09:28:44Z text/html en Chamil Algeria <p>After the social explosion in opposition to the government's draft finance law followed by conflicts with the security forces in early January 2017 in a number of Algeria's wilayats – in Bejaïa, Bouira, Boumerdes, Blida and Tiaret – and the social discontent in others, the question is: are they the fruit of rumour and manipulation, as the government and the media tell us? This regime does not ask why violence has become a mode of expression, why youth has its horizon blocked, why the public school throws more than 500,000 children onto the streets every year, while the barons of the regime enrich themselves. The social explosions, riots, strikes and social movements reveal a profound political and social malaise.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV505-February-2017-PDF-" rel="directory">IV505 - February 2017 PDF</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Algeria-+" rel="tag">Algeria</a>