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Latin America and the Arab revolution: the bankruptcy of Chavism?

Ataulfo Riera — 2011-03-02T12:52:02Z

In Europe, governments are trying to prevent contagion and solidarity between European workers and the Arab masses in revolt by brandishing the scarecrow of Islamism. In Latin America, it is the Venezuelan and Cuban progressive leaders themselves who are trying to isolate these rising revolutions by affirming the supposedly “anti-imperialist” character of the despotic Libyan, Syrian and Iranian regimes, which are also being destabilized by the rising wave of peoples in struggle.

- IV434 - March 2011 / Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Nicaragua, Arab Revolutions

The revolution is on the march!

Ataulfo Riera — 2011-01-26T13:43:08Z

“Faced with the world-wide crisis of capitalism, the workers and the population of Tunisia show us the only possible way out: the most resolute struggle. To organize and fight here for an alternative to the capitalist world order and to imperialism which is at the heart of it, is also a support for all oppressed people, just as their struggles are a support and a real encouragement for us. ”

- IV432 - January 2011 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions

A movement based on retrograde, monarchist, and ultra-Christian values

Ataulfo Riera — 2008-02-29T11:17:00Z

With the political crisis stemming from the difficulty experienced by the right wing parties in forming a new federal executive because of “community quarrelling” thousands of people, essentially in Francophone Belgium, are hanging Belgian flags in their windows.

- IV397 - February 2008 / Belgium

A new “Black Sunday”

Ataulfo Riera — 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

Belgium's European elections took place amid relative indifference, not the least of paradoxes in the country which is home to the European Parliament. Significant regional elections (since Belgium became a federal state, the Flemish, Brussels, Walloon and German-speaking regions possess greater powers) were held at the same time and these commanded all the attention.

- IV360/1 - Autumn 2004 / Belgium