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The future of the revolutionary left

Alain Krivine, Alex Callinicos — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Alain Krivine, main spokesperson of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), spoke in July at the London 'Marxism' event, organised by the British Socialist Workers Party (SWP), on the 'future of the revolutionary left'. Here we publish his speech, together with the contribution made in the discussion by Alex Callinicos, an SWP leader.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Debate section

Charlie van Gelderen (1913-2001)

Penelope Duggan, Terry Conway — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Charlie van Gelderen was the last survivor of those who attended the 1938 Founding Conference of the Fourth International in Paris. He attended as an observer on behalf of South African Trotskyists, though he was already living in Britain by that time. He died peacefully at home in Cambridge on October 26 after a short illness at the age of 88, still a fully paid up and until very recently an active member of the International Socialist Group (British section of the Fourth International).

- IV336 - December 2001 / Obituary, Fourth International

The strange death of Solidarnosc

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

The results of the Polish parliamentary elections of September 23, 2001 have profoundly restructured the country's political landscape. Polish observers are generally agreed that what has happened amounts to a genuine earthquake, albeit a limited one, in three respects.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Poland

Problems of far left recomposition

OKDE-Spartakos — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Some profound changes in the workers' movement and in class-consciousness have taken place in Greek society over the last 10 years. Xenophobia and racism have developed as "natural" reflexes to big waves of immigration.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Greece

Autonomy, war, globalisation

Presentes por el socialismo — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

In the case of the two main insurgent forces, the FARC and the ELN, their respective 40 and 30 years of struggle for the popular and socialist cause is starting to be clouded by an ongoing sequence of errors with respect to the social movements.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Colombia

The angry vote

Ernesto Herrera — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

October's mid-term elections in Argentina marked a significant turn in one of the deepest crises the country has ever faced. After a growing wave of increasingly militant social struggles, and with the prospect of total financial meltdown lurking just around the corner, everyone expected the ruling Alliance parties to take a beating at the polls.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Argentina

An end to immunity

Michel Warschawski — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

The Israeli Knesset has voted to strip Palestinian member Azmi Bishara of his parliamentary immunity. The following article by our Jerusalem correspondent was written for the July issue of News From Within, before the Knesset took its decision.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Palestine, Israel

Against terrorism and the war which threatens us

Fausto Bertinotti — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

WE had said that after Genoa nothing would be as it was before. Now, after the terrible deeds in New York and Washington, we must again affirm, but in an opposite sense, that nothing will be as it was before.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Italy

PRC opens congress discussion

Rifondazione - PRC — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

We publish below extracts from the first draft resolution under discussion for the next congress of Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation, which will take place in spring 2002. This text was adopted by a very large majority by the National Political Committee (CPN) on September 16, but it was written before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Italy

The Grand Chessboard

Charles-André Udry — 2001-12-10T00:00:00Z

Do Osama Ben Laden's "Al-Quaida" network and their Taliban supporters in Afghanistan represent the central target of the US military campaign? Certainly, the proclaimed target is wider: "international terrorism". Inside the vast "coalition" which has been set up, understanding on this theme will not be reached easily and in any case will not last.

- IV336 - December 2001 / Asia