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Food Sovereignty: something's moving in Europe

Esther Vivas — 2010-02-20T10:54:28Z

Activists in Europe are beginning to coordinate action strategies in favor of food sovereignty at the local, national, and continental levels. As these networks bring in new players, they gather strength. The task is not easy, but food sovereignty movements and anti-globalization movements are steadily building a common front behind a call popularized by La VÃa Campesina: “Globalize struggle, globalize hope.”

- IV421 - February 2010 / Europe, Ecology and the Environment, Economy, Food crisis

Rising extremism, war on terrorism and women's lives in Pakistan

Bushra Khaliq — 2010-02-16T08:22:24Z

What is really needed is a united class-based struggle against the rotten system of capitalism, which is directly encouraging religious extremism and feudalism to continue. Capitalism, coopting with feudalism and extremism can not create the conditions in which women can enjoy full rights, freedom and equality.

- IV421 - February 2010 / Women, Pakistan

Ilham Moussaid : statement by the National Executive Committee of the NPA

2010-02-15T18:21:52Z

Ilham Moussaid : statement by the National Executive Committee of the NPA, February 8, 2010

- IV421 - February 2010 / France, Women

Beyond the World Social Forum ... the Fifth International

Éric Toussaint — 2010-02-14T09:24:26Z

Eric Toussaint, a doctor in political science and a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum (WSF), is in favour of the WSF becoming a platform of greater political influence in social struggles throughout the world. He is not particularly worried about the resistance of certain sectors within the Forum who would prefer this event to retain its original form. For him, the solution is simple. “If the Forum cannot accommodate it, we must build another instrument, without leaving or scrapping the Forum.”

- IV421 - February 2010 / Global Justice, Debate section, Debt

Postal workers have to pay for privatization

Lot van Baaren, Paul Benschop — 2010-02-13T06:30:55Z

Grenzeloos, journal of SAP, the Dutch section of the Fourth International, looked across Europe to ask to what extent the current state in the privatized postal company is particularly Dutch.

- IV421 - February 2010

Bravura expression of growing left influence in Pakistan

Farooq Tariq — 2010-02-08T13:32:00Z

The two-day Labour Party Pakistan Fifth congress helped to advance the revolutionary process in Pakistan. It brought together comrades from different traditions and trends to discuss the central topic: “build a mass working-class party independent of the influence of the capitalists and feudal elements.” The congress was a bravura expression of the growing influence and strength of emerging left-wing politics in Pakistan.

- IV421 - February 2010 / Pakistan