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Where is the Islamic Republic going?

Houshang Sepehr — 2009-09-30T13:55:28Z

What is happening in Iran is a spontaneous, ingenious and independent revolt by a people frustrated by thirty years of tyranny by an obscurantist, religious regime, a revolt that was unleashed by electoral fraud.

- IV416 - September 2009

New NCIW/JRCL joint weekly analyses elections

Kenji Kunitomi — 2009-09-29T18:21:50Z

This analysis of the elections comes from “Kakehashi” (Bridge), a newspaper which is, from this month, produced weekly in co-operation between two Fourth Internationalist organisations: the National Council of Internationalist Workers (NCIW) and the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (JRCL). The decision to publish a co-edited weekly is important for both organizations to develop a organizational reunification after a split in 1989.

- IV416 - September 2009 / Japan

Boost for left representation

Alda Sousa — 2009-09-29T00:46:34Z

Portugal's parliamentary elections, held on September 27, 2009 have changed the political landscape: the Socialist Party, which had an absolute majority in 2005, with 45 % of votes, lost more than half a million votes and fell to 36.56 %.

- IV416 - September 2009 / Portugal

Right coalition elected

Angela Klein — 2009-09-28T22:22:37Z

The German general elections of September 27, 2009 have given a clear majority to a right-wing coalition government between the Christian Democrats and the liberal FDP.

- IV416 - September 2009

The Ultra-Right Pot Boils Over

Gerry Foley — 2009-09-26T11:52:13Z

The appearance of right-wing mobs at town meetings organized by Democratic Party representatives to discuss the proposed health-care reform has set off alarm bells, in particular because of the blind fanaticism of the right-wing protesters and their threats of violence, including armed violence. These outbursts show many features of historic fascist developmentsâ€”and on a scale as yet unseen in the United States.

- IV416 - September 2009

Reasons for the right's anticipated defeat

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2009-09-23T14:38:19Z

Parliamentary elections will take place in Greece on October 4th. They had been planned for September 2010, but the pressure to have them early has become stronger in recent months. While the economic situation has led to sharper anti-worker measures, the right wing government of Kostas Karamanlis has been weakened by setbacks, of which the most visible was that of the June European elections (its vote was 32.3 %, against 43% in 2004). It only has a one seat majority in the current parliament!

- IV416 - September 2009

IIRE plans Regional Global Justice School in 9-28 November in Manila

Ronald Lara — 2009-09-19T15:51:11Z

Since 1982, the existence of the International Institute for Research and Education in Amsterdam (IIRE-Amsterdam) has been instrumental in bringing together activists from all inhabited continents for critical exchanges of thoughts and experiences in the daily struggle for emancipation of all oppressed peoples of the world.

- IV416 - September 2009