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IV469 - February 2014 PDF

robm — 2014-02-28T07:57:00Z

IV 469 February 2014 PDF magazine available to download

- IV469 - February 2014 / PDF

All power to the plenums?

Mate Kapovi? — 2014-02-26T21:47:38Z

One of the most positive developments in the Bosnian protests has been the birth of direct democratic assemblies â€” but some major challenges remain.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Bosnia-Herzegovina

“A mass revolt for democracy”

Zakhar Popovych — 2014-02-25T07:44:10Z

Zakhar Popovych, an economist and member of the leadership of “Left Opposition”, a Ukrainian political group, was interviewed by Manu Bichindaritz for “Hebdo L'Anticapitaliste”, the newspaper of France's Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Ukraine

Ukrainians fighting for a better society

Ilya Budraitskis — 2014-02-23T15:00:45Z

In Kiev tens of thousands risk their lives to protect the Maiden from police aggression. A participant in the January protests, socialist activist Ilya Budraitskis, argues that the left needs to be a stronger and more visible force in the movement.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Ukraine

On Seattle, Kshama Sawant, Elections and the US Left

Andrew Sernatinger — 2014-02-22T19:42:41Z

At this point, most people are pretty familiar with Kshama Sawant's election to the Seattle City Council. Sawant first ran for the Washington State House of Representatives in the fall of 2012 and used her notoriety and unexpected positive reception to run again at the municipal level in 2013, defeating her opponent Richard Conlin in a tight race.

- IV469 - February 2014 / United States (USA)

The Exceptional Meaning of the Tuzla Plenum

Workers' Struggle — 2014-02-22T11:05:11Z

The following is an article by â€˜Radnicka Borbaâ€˜ (Workers' Struggle) and first appeared on their website. It was translated into English by the blog Bosnia-Herzogovina Protest Files.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Bosnia-Herzegovina

A racist vote?

Paolo Gilardi — 2014-02-19T07:47:57Z

Since the Swiss referendum on February 9, 2014, narrowly backing a move to restore strict quotas for immigration from European Union countries, many have decried the vote as racist and xenophobic. They have thus drawn the necessary political conclusion, which makes racism the target of a policy, anti-racism the guideline. In my view, nothing would be more erroneous and above all ineffective given the political and social urgencies of the moment, in the country with the lowest rate of unemployment in Europe. Here are some preliminary lines of explanation.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Switzerland

Social revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Catherine Samary — 2014-02-18T15:46:18Z

Spring is in advance of the prevailing cold. Nobody knows how far the social and democratic explosion will go. But now, already, we know that it will leave deep scars and that it could spread like wildfire: the peoples of the region are beginning to see "what makes the system tick" in both the protests and the aspirations that are expressed. From the denunciation of "criminal privatizations" there could emerge a denunciation of the Euro-Atlantic institutions that have fostered them.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Bosnia-Herzegovina

Tokyo Elections and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Kenji Kunitomi — 2014-02-18T11:58:04Z

What to make of the Tokyo gubernatorial election results? How can we organize a campaign to stop reactivating nuclear power plants that connects the whole country? How effective is the “single-issue” focus?

- IV469 - February 2014 / Japan, Nuclear power

The last stand of a system in crisis

Salvatore Cannavò — 2014-02-18T07:55:41Z

While we might dub Enrico Letta, recently thrown overboard by Matteo Renzi, the Copenhagen giraffe, Renzi might be characterised as the last stand. The last stand for a political-social system that has been carved up, taken apart and put in debt to the European Union but which is still functioning and whose leaders do want to be overwhelmed by the only real tidal wave that is rising in Europe which is anti-European, nationalist or populist or with more contradictory characteristics like the Five Star Movement in Italy. In this sense Renzi is the last card for all those pro-austerity, pro-government forces.

- IV469 - February 2014 / Italy