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IV475 - August 2014 PDF

robm — 2014-08-31T08:47:00Z

IV 475 August 2014 PDF now available for download

- IV475 - August 2014 / PDF

Ceasefire in Gaza: a political and military defeat for the Israeli state

NPA-l'Anticapitaliste (NPA-A) — 2014-08-30T16:06:30Z

After more than 7 weeks of a murderous and destructive campaign of bombings and ground operations against the Gaza Strip the Israeli state has been forced to accept a ceasefire agreement accompanied by various intended measures to diminish the fatal and illegal blockade which has touched the small coastal strip for more than 7 years.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Palestine, France, Israel

“The alternative would be a Bank of the South, not the BRICS Bank”

Éric Toussaint — 2014-08-27T14:23:31Z

Éric Toussaint was interviewed by Benito Perez for the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier from Geneva on 22 August. The interview was translated by Suchandra De Sarkar in collaboration with Christine Pagnoulle and Eric Toussaint and published by CADTM.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Economy, Latin America, Ecuador, Debt

Ebola, Poverty and Racism

Thadeus Pato — 2014-08-27T09:01:53Z

In recent weeks, the German and British authorities have publicly expressed an inconvenient truth – without realizing it: Ebola would be not a major problem for them (and other rich industrialized countries) but it is completely different in the (presently) affected countries of Western Africa – for numerous reasons…

- IV475 - August 2014 / Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Public services , Liberia

Year Four of the revolution - results and prospects

Fathi Chamkhi — 2014-08-26T19:03:22Z

The revolutionary insurrection which shook Tunisia towards the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 allowed the popular classes and youth to drive out Ben Ali and to break his regime. But to get rid of the dictator is one thing. To cut down the economic and social system that sustained him is another.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Tunisia

Join the Climate Justice, Gender and Food Sovereignty Caravan 2014

2014-08-25T14:25:38Z

10 - 28 November 2014

â€¢ Running for 18 days

â€¢ Travelling through three countries; Bangladesh, India and Nepal

- IV475 - August 2014 / Ecology and the Environment, India, Nepal, Food crisis, Bangladesh

World War I and Its Century

Allen Ruff — 2014-08-25T09:44:54Z

In his Age of Extremes, the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm marked the start of World War I in August, 1914 as the beginning of the “short twentieth century.”
In Hobsbawm's account, that short century ended with the reunification of Germany and the breakup of the Soviet “East Bloc” in 1989-90. The “Great War” of 1914-1918, he argued, was the defining event of the century.
With the dismemberment of Yugoslavia underway in the early 1990s as he wrote, Hobsbawm observed that the (…)

- IV475 - August 2014 / Historical events and figures

Colonialism and the Working Class in Canada

David Camfield — 2014-08-24T19:26:42Z

It's good news that in a number of cities people "are meeting together in growing numbers to explore what it means - and doesn't mean - to stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples within Canada," as journalist Meg Mittelstedt wrote recently.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Canada, Indigenous struggles

Racism Refusing to Go Away

Malik Miah — 2014-08-24T07:15:33Z

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.” â€” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, from her dissenting opinion after the Supreme Court majority ruled April 22 that states can ban affirmative action in college admissions. Sotomayor is of Puerto Rican descent and the first Latino to serve on the Supreme Court. She was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York.

- IV475 - August 2014 / United States (USA), Historical events and figures, Racism and Islamophobia

Between “Popular Uprising for Democracy” (Canadian government version) and “Fascist Putsch” (Russian version)

David Mandel — 2014-08-24T07:14:49Z

Let's begin with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's version. One can think what one likes about deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, but his election in 2012 was recognized as legitimate by international observers and, after a certain hesitation, by the defeated candidate, Yulia Timoshenko. In fact, relatively honest elections were just about the only positive outcome for ordinary people of the last big mobilization on Maidan Square, the “Orange Revolution” of December 2004.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Russia, Canada, Ukraine