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- IV472 - May 2014 / PDF

Between a rock and a hard place is there a way out? –

Joanne Landy — 2014-05-26T15:08:18Z

The governments of the United States and Russia are attempting to shape events in Ukraine in their own interests, not for the benefit of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainians have long suffered from domination by Moscow, under the Russian czars and later in the Soviet Union, most horrifically under Stalin. With the end of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, millions hoped for freedom and a new beginning. However, the United States and Western Europe exploited the collapse of the Soviet system to expand their own military and economic power, extending NATO into a dozen formerly Communist nations (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Albania and Croatia), and, they hoped, into Ukraine and Georgia as well. Equally destructive, the West attempted to use its economic heft, “shock therapy,” and international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to push a brutal capitalism on the people of the former Communist countries.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Ukraine

Asian organizations: No to another coup in Thailand!

2014-05-26T09:56:06Z

Asian organizations condemn the coup in Thailand.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Thailand

Three years of indignation

Jaime Pastor — 2014-05-21T22:05:05Z

As we celebrate the third anniversary of 15M in different forums of reflection it has been possible to remember the events that gave rise to a new cycle of protests and with them to an “expansion of the field of the possible”, recreating a broad and plural public space for political action other than the institutional sort. Thus was generated a broad relation of initiatives, arising in an increasing symbiosis between social networks, the plazas and the streets of so many places, with greater or lesser fortune, but all of them bringing to light the fact that something was changing in the landscape and the political climate, in contrast to the Newspeak of a regime bent on continuing installing in the minds of people the culture of cynicism, fear and resignation.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Spanish state

Fear clouds the Indian elections

Nagesh Rao — 2014-05-19T06:49:16Z

Nagesh Rao provides the background for understanding the elections in India—and the looming threat of a triumph for the Hindu right when they end this month.

- IV472 - May 2014 / India, Far Right

Lean & Mean Health Care

Greg Chern — 2014-05-13T07:35:50Z

Writers in Alternative Left media â€” e.g. Socialist Worker, Labor Notes, Jacobin and Truth Dig â€” have reported on what the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean for health care consumers (the individual family or individual shopfloor) when they sign up for health insurance.

- IV472 - May 2014 / United States (USA), Public services

Only the workers' movement can stop flaring up of war in Ukraine

Zakhar Popovych — 2014-05-12T15:54:53Z

On 2 May 2014 more than 40 people were killed in Odessa during the brutal clashes and fire in the “House of Trade Unions”. The violent actions came from both sides of the confrontation and there is no excuse for this. Very careful investigation is needed to find out the true story of events.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Ukraine

The situation in Europe today

François Sabado — 2014-05-11T17:59:47Z

This report on Europe was made to a national meeting of NPA branch representatives on 1-2 December, 2013.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Europe, European Union

For an independent social movement! For a free Ukraine!

Socialist Union “Left Opposition” — 2014-05-11T17:44:01Z

This statement by the Left Opposition was published on 7 May 2014 on the site Observer Ukraine. It was translated
from the Ukrainian by Marko Bojcun.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Ukraine

After Odessa, “remaining human” as a political programme.

Ilya Budraitskis — 2014-05-10T08:00:59Z

In the two days that have passed since the tragic events in Odessa, we have heard dozens of versions of what happened. And all of these versions have been, one way or another, linked to the search for a “hidden hand” that sent two armed groups of demonstrators to clash with each other, and pushed one of them into the slaughterhouse at the House of Trade Unions.

- IV472 - May 2014 / Ukraine