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Climate chaos and the global ecological crisis

Fourth International — 2011-02-27T18:42:34Z

One year after the resolution adopted at the 16th World Congress of the Fourth International, the International Committee adopted the following statement.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Fourth International, Climate, Ecosocialism, IC 2011

Tunisia, Egypt: a revolutionary process of world scope

Fourth International — 2011-02-25T18:15:53Z

The International Committee of the Fourth International at its annual meeting in late February 2011 unanimously adopted the following statement.

- IV433 - February 2011 / MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Fourth International, Tunisia, Egypt, Arab Revolutions, IC 2011

Top judges' anti-workers attitude: Now face the music of workers' anger on 1st March

Farooq Tariq — 2011-02-25T11:38:33Z

Labour Party Pakistan has decided to organize a day of action for workers' right to protest and against the top judges' discriminatory attitude towards the struggle of the working class. On Tuesday 1st of March, thousands of workers across Pakistan will organize rallies, demonstrations and strikes to assert their rights of organizing peaceful means of struggle.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Pakistan

Domestic workers take to the streets

KPRM-PRD — 2011-02-25T11:18:28Z

Scores of demonstrators from the Yogyakarta Domestic Worker Protection Network (JPPRT) took to the streets on Monday February 14 demanding decent wages and protection for domestic workers.
According to action coordinator Henny, the domestic workers' demands are totally reasonable because in reality domestic workers are still vulnerable to physical, psychological, social and economic violence.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Women, Indonesia

Palestinians and the ever-widening intifada across the Middle East and North Africa

Keith Darwin — 2011-02-25T11:13:22Z

The mass upsurges that drove out Ben Ali from Tunisia and Mubarak from Egypt have electrified people everywhere, but nowhere more than in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where people are still glued to al-Jazeera television, suspiciously evaluating the military “undertaker” regime in Cairo and alternatively excited and agonized by mass protests and brutal repression in Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Djibouti, Kuwait, Morocco and Iran. Keith Darwin, an Australian FI supporter, sent us this report.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Palestine, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Arab Revolutions

The struggle for public education continues in the UPR

Gamelyn Orduardo — 2011-02-23T18:09:09Z

San Juan, Puerto Rico- After 70 days of strike and hours of deliberation under the unmerciful Caribbean sun, the students of the Rio Piedras Campus, of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) approved a plan of action to continue wielding their struggle for public education.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Puerto Rico, Youth and student movements

Radicalisation of the financial, economic, social and political crises at the European level

Cédric Durand — 2011-02-19T08:43:22Z

On Sunday November 21, 2010 Irish prime minister Brian Cowen formally requested international assistance from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Subsequently, EU finance ministers gave their agreement in principle on condition that a drastic austerity plan was implemented. Throughout the week speculative attacks against not just Ireland but also Portugal - in spite of the announcement of a new austerity plan - and Spain intensified. Five months after Greece, the "rescue" of Ireland marked the beginning of Act II of the Euro crisis and opened a social-political sequence which looks particularly agitated.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Europe, Economic crisis

Youth revolt shakes authoritarian order

Chawki Salhi — 2011-02-16T19:46:47Z

After a week, the riotous fires burnt out, leaving a feeling of bitterness, a taste of ashes. But the national scope of the revolts and the virtually total paralysis that resulted shook the existing authoritarian order and opened the possibility of qualitative changes in the political situation.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Algeria, Youth and student movements, Arab Revolutions

Final declaratio?n of the Assembly of the Social Movements

Assembly of the Social Movements — 2011-02-12T17:39:53Z

As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Dakar, 2011, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of Africa and its peoples in the construction of human civilisation. Together, the peoples of all the continents are struggling mightily to oppose the domination of capital, hidden behind illusory promises of economic progress and political stability. Complete decolonization for oppressed peoples remains for us, the social movements of the world, a challenge of the greatest importance.

- IV433 - February 2011 / Africa, Social Forum, Global Justice, Arab Revolutions