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IV511 - August 2017 PDF

robm — 2017-08-31T14:00:00Z

IVP 511 August 2017 PDF now available

- IV511 - August 2017 / PDF

Why did Chile take 28 years to decriminalise abortion?

Mattieu Dejean — 2017-08-31T04:11:01Z

On 21 August, the Chilean Constitutional Court approved the law of partial decriminalization of abortion, which had been totally banned for 28 years. How can we explain that this social conquest was so late and so laborious?

- IV511 - August 2017 / Women, Chile

The "populist moment"

Daniel Tanuro — 2017-08-30T08:10:59Z

The "populist moment" is a concept proposed by the philosopher Chantal Mouffe. According to Mouffe, globalization, the hegemony of financial capital and the integration of social democracy into neo-liberal politics have created a "post-democracy".

- IV511 - August 2017 / Marxism

Baba Jan's review plea: GB's top court urged to rectify â€˜floating error' in verdict

2017-08-29T07:54:37Z

New development in the case of Baba Jan.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Pakistan

The "crisis in the Gulf": understanding the roots

Gilbert Achcar — 2017-08-25T04:41:01Z

In order to understand the violent campaign launched by the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt against Qatar, it is necessary to look beyond trivialities such as the ransom that the Qataris allegedly paid In Iraq (to Shiite groups, in order to free more than twenty hawkers hunting in Iraqi territory) and accusations that Qatar supports terrorism. Such accusations lose credibility because they are made by actors who have done exactly that for decades. We must return to the context before the Arab Spring and how it was affected by the Great Uprising.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar

Feminism at Work

Lynne Williams — 2017-08-24T06:25:00Z

As feminists we often focus our attention on the effects gender inequality has on women. And while this inequality still exists and requires our unwavering attention, as socialist feminists we also focus on the effect this inequality has on our ability to organize a class conscious movement, where our differences do not impede our ability to act collectively against capital.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Women

A Split at the Top: The Bourgeoisie Begins to Abandon Trump

Dan La Botz — 2017-08-23T07:27:32Z

President Donald Trump's failure for two days to condemn the violent Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and "alt-right" white supremacists, one of whom murdered a woman in Charlottesville, has led to a major development as sections of the capitalist class have begun to abandon him.

- IV511 - August 2017 / United States (USA)

An Orientation Toward Local Independent Political Organizations (IPOs)

Solidarity — 2017-08-22T01:31:59Z

The last several years have seen cracks in the hegemony of bourgeois electoral politics unlike anything we've seen since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the late 1970s. Tens of thousands of radicalizing young people have been mobilized the campaigns of Bernie Sanders in the US, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and others around the world, and have swelled the ranks of organizations or caucuses like Momentum within the British Labour Party, and DSA in the US.

- IV511 - August 2017 / United States (USA)

"The revolution will not be NGO-ised": four lessons from African feminist organising

Valérie Bah and Felogene Anumo — 2017-08-21T14:50:43Z

African feminist movements are diverse. But we can, and must, learn from decades of transformational organising on the continent.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Women, Africa

We need a large movement from below!

Joseph Daher — 2017-08-20T12:02:04Z

Joseph Daher was interviewed about his book Hezbollah - The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God (published by Pluto Press, London in October 2016) on the occasion of a visit to Berlin to speak about it.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Religion, Lebanon, Arab Revolutions