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"Pakistan is not a heaven for left ideas"

Chris Den Hond — 2008-03-16T09:31:31Z

The elections of 18th of February in Pakistan were a severe sanction for general Musharaf. Farooq Tariq is spokesperson for the Labour Party of Pakistan. He was put into the prison several times last year and he explains us the difficulties to implement left politics in a country of 160 million of inhabitants, surrounded by Afghanistan, Iran, India and China.

- IV398 - March 2008 / Pakistan

Impressive mobilisation at the edge of capitalist Europe

Chris Den Hond , Lucien Perpette — 2008-01-11T10:50:10Z

In November 2007, trade unions in Slovenia organised a major demonstration in their capital city, Ljubljana, to protest the effects of inflation, and to demand cost-of-living adjustments to salaries in this former Yugoslav Republic, which joined the European Union in May 2004.

- IV396 - January 2008 / Slovenia

For a federalism that is social and based on solidarity

Chris Den Hond — 2007-10-20T12:20:12Z

The recent elections have provoked debate on the left about the crisis of the federal Belgian state. This contribution by journalist Chris Den Hond illustrates many of the issues under discussion; it should not be taken as a formal expression of the views of our Belgian section.

- IV393 - October 2007 / Belgium

Fighting for Marxism in Syria

Chris Den Hond — 2005-02-01T00:00:00Z

Released after sixteen years in prison, Monif Mulhem threw himself into the construction of a global justice movement in Syria. After some successful social forums, the Syrian authorities banned them. Today, Monif continues political activity in a tense situation. IV spoke to him in his small apartment in Damascus.

- IV364 - February 2005 / Syria

Interview with Marwan Othman

Chris Den Hond — 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marwan Othman, aged 45, identifies himself as a Trotskyist and is one of the leaders of Yekiti, the second most influential party among Syrian Kurds.

- IV360/1 - Autumn 2004 / Syria