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“Build Podemos, defending our ideas adapted to the reality of experience and our activists”

François Sabado — 2015-01-30T19:26:48Z

Greetings. We would like, first of all, to congratulate you for the intuition, the “flair”, the sense of initiative that you have had to buildÂ Podemos, from the beginning.

- IV480 - January 2015 / Spanish state, Anti-capitalist left

Europe adrift and an earthquake in France

François Sabado — 2014-06-16T11:59:25Z

It was a genuine historic shock for Europe and a huge thunderclap in France with the victory of the Front national. The results of the elections confirm the terrible political crisis which is striking Europe. There is a shock wave whose political effects cannot yet be measured. For sure, we should avoid a France-centred reading of electoral results affecting 28 states: according to the political situation in each country, the relationship of forces can vary here and there, but broad trends are nonetheless discernible on the basis of crisis and degradation of the relationship of forces for the worker's movement: massive abstention, rise of the far right, setbacks for the traditional right, considerable weakening of social democracy, maintenance of the radical left with the rise of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain.

- IV473 - June 2014 / Europe, France, Anti-capitalist left, Far Right, European Union

The role of the left in Syriza

Sotiris Martalis — 2013-05-27T15:07:12Z

This contribution was made by Sotiris Martalis during the debate on broad parties at the March 2013 meeting of the Fourth International's International Committee.

- IV460 - May 2013 / Greece, New parties of the left, Anti-capitalist left

The lefts in the crisis

François Sabado — 2013-05-20T07:52:46Z

The situation of the "lefts" cannot be understood without starting from the crisis, its multiple dimensions and its effects on the social and political field. Hitting head-on all the organizations and parties linked to the history of the workers' movement, precipitating ruptures, it obliges political forces to recompose around new axes. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet bloc announced a new era: the current upheavals give this era its content. The present crisis is global: in economic terms, it is the consequence of an over-accumulation of capital, an overproduction of goods and commodities and an under-consumption of the masses. The “real economy” of the imperialist centres is settling into a long-term recessive logic, and none of the "orthodox" economic experts ventures onto the theme of a "way out of the crisis”.

- IV460 - May 2013 / Anti-capitalist left, European Union

A left government to conquer the debt

Françisco Louçã — 2013-05-16T17:59:45Z

1. The Portuguese problem is democratic. This problem is the democratic answer to the blackmail of debt and the austerity that results from it, with social effects that destroy Portugal. This is the problem of problems.

- IV460 - May 2013 / Portugal, Anti-capitalist left, Debt

International anti-capitalist meeting in Athens

François Sabado — 2013-03-30T06:42:10Z

On the initiative of “Rproject” – the coordination of left forces in Syriza: DEA, Kokkino and Apo – an international anti-capitalist meeting took place which attended by nearly 1,000 people in Athens, from 1-3 March.

- IV458 - March 2013 / Greece, Anti-capitalist left

An anti-capitalist and disobedient candidacy

2011-11-03T21:33:21Z

The November 20th elections will not be any elections. They will take place in the midst of a social and economic crisis that has no end and extends throughout the European Union, placing the Spanish state in the eye of the hurricane. Now more than ever it has become clear that global capitalism is unable to satisfy the basic needs of the majority of the population and threatens the survival of all humanity and the planet due to the serious ecological crisis that it has generated.

- IV442 - November 2011 / Spanish state, Anti-capitalist left, European Union

Statement by Anti-capitalist Left conference

2011-07-18T16:33:34Z

This statement was adopted by the anti-capitalist left organisations meeting together on the call of the SWP (Britain) and the NPA (France) as a follow-up to the previous conferences held in Paris in June 2008, December 2009, and May and December 2010.

- IV438 - July 2011 / Europe, Anti-capitalist left

A European strategy for the left?

Michel Husson — 2011-01-28T13:17:26Z

Michel Husson offers a contribution to the debate on how the European left should respond to the economic crisis and argues that leaving the euro is not currently an option for countries which use it.

- IV432 - January 2011 / Europe, Economy, Anti-capitalist left, European Union

Third European Anti-capitalist Conference, an encouraging step forward

Yvan LemaÃ®tre — 2010-12-13T22:36:35Z

Delegates from all over Europe, from Ireland to Poland, from Greece to Norway, met for the Third European Anti-capitalist Conference met in Paris on October 16 and 17 at the height of the demonstrations against the French pension reform.

- IV431- December 2010 / Europe, Anti-capitalist left