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IV470 - March 2014 PDF

robm — 2014-03-31T14:56:00Z

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- IV470 - March 2014 / PDF

Punishment of the SP, rise of the FN... A leftwing response is urgent!

Roseline Vacchetta — 2014-03-31T11:50:17Z

The second round of the lcoal elections in France on Sunday 30 March confirmed the trends seen in the first round on 23 March, as outlined in this article from l'Anticapitaliste (weekly newspaper of the NPA) of 27 March 2014.

- IV470 - March 2014

Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?

Aima Khosa — 2014-03-31T08:42:56Z

“We condemn the co-option of the question of women's emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women's Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.” Awami Workers' Party's General Secretary Farooq Tariq started his statement on Women's Day with this powerful line.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Women, Pakistan

Cabinets sans women – “the space is shrinking for the women”

Adnan Aamir — 2014-03-31T08:06:23Z

The political space of Pakistan has taken turns for the worst over the years. There is an ever increasing influence of Islamists who sell religion to gain power. Increase in their influence means that liberal and progressive elements are losing power, if they ever had any. Political scene is dominated by right wingers, be it mainstream parties like PML-N, PTI or religious parties such as JI and JUI-f. As a result the militancy has surged in Pakistan whereas plurality is taking a steep decline. One of the hallmarks of right wing dominated political systems is always a misogynistic attitude. Same is the case in current political setup of Pakistan where the space is shrinking for the women.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Women, Pakistan

March 2011- March 2014, the essential solidarity

Jacques Babel, Joseph Daher — 2014-03-30T21:30:10Z

To commemorate the three years of their uprising, the Syrian revolutionaries reminded the world that it should be included in the processes of the region, giving Friday, March 14 the slogan: “This is a popular revolution, not a civil war! “. Despite the killings and massive destruction caused by the Assad regime on the one hand, and the oppression of Islamic reactionary forces on the other, the Syrian people continue to struggle for its initial objectives: democracy: social justice and the refusal of sectarianism.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Syria, Arab Revolutions

Neoliberalism and class struggle today

Franck Gaudichaud — 2014-03-29T17:04:37Z

An interview with Chilean Marxist economist Rafael Agacino. Interview conducted by Franck Gaudichaud

- IV470 - March 2014 / Chile

After Bachelet's election

Franck Gaudichaud — 2014-03-29T17:04:19Z

Interview with Marco Alvarez, an activist with Libres del Sur. The interview was conducted by Franck Gaudichaud

- IV470 - March 2014 / Chile

The springtime of the peoples arrives in Europe

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski — 2014-03-26T16:04:27Z

The Arab Spring arrived in winter 2010, close to Europe; in the countries located on the other side of the Mediterranean. Four years later, we see that the springtime of the peoples is not solely an Arab phenomenon. Now in winter it has also erupted in Europe, although for now in the external periphery of the European Union. We probably did not recognise to what point the process of capitalist integration in Europe contributed to the explosive accumulation of tensions in its near but extra-European periphery. This is still truer now in its nearer European periphery. The link this time was direct, clearly visible: initially, the conflict broke out in Ukraine around the question of adhesion to the EU. This was the first slogan which began to gather the crowds, which gave birth to a mass social movement and which led to huge upheavals including the threat of war. Not a civil war as in Libya or Syria – although that was expected and incited in Russia and in all the propaganda networks linked to it around the world – but an international war.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Ukraine

The new Bachelet government, neoliberalism and struggle

Franck Gaudichaud — 2014-03-25T17:28:43Z

This article is the introduction to a series of articles covering different aspects of the situation in Chile today. The other articles and interviews will be published as they become available.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Chile

The people want – but do they have a chance ?

Gilbert Achcar , Rana Nessim, Rosemary Belcher — 2014-03-25T10:09:47Z

Nasserism, by far, is the main form of progressive political consciousness that one can find in Egypt, when it takes the form of nostalgia, not for military rule, but for social benefits, jobs, agrarian reform, democratisation of education, and the national dignity of Egypt as incarnated and embodied by Nasser. Interview : 14 February 2014.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Egypt, Arab Revolutions