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Bali: An Initial Balance Sheet

Daniel Tanuro — 2007-12-31T11:09:50Z

How should we judge the outcome of the Bali Conference? The fact that the IPCC targets were not explicitly and directly included in the roadmap has lead some to call it a pointless meeting, a victory for the USA, etc.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Ecology and the Environment, Climate

The Anticapitalist Left and Social Struggles

Ilya Budraitskis, Maria Kurzina — 2007-12-31T10:57:42Z

The language of the contemporary radical left in Russia seems surprisingly antiquated. That concerns not only the habit, bad but forgivable, of using phraseology. Such linguistic stagnation also testifies to the ossification of thought.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Russia

Unprecedented mass reaction

Farooq Tariq — 2007-12-30T19:03:39Z

Pakistan has never seen so many people protesting in streets all over as been the case during the last two days. They were all united across Pakistan to condemn the brutal murder of Benazir Bhutto.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Pakistan

Statement on the Assassination of Benzir Bhutto

Labour Party Pakistan — 2007-12-30T18:35:26Z

A tragedy wrought by combination of dictatorship, fundamentalism, imperialism

- IV395 - December 2007 / Pakistan

Bhutto assassination: a Product of Military Despotism and Anarchy

Tariq Ali — 2007-12-28T12:27:43Z

Even those of us sharply critical of Benazir Bhutto's behaviour and policies - both while she was in office and more recently - are stunned and angered by her death. Indignation and fear stalk the country once again.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Pakistan

Why I Will Not Participate in the Madrid Social Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East

Michel Warschawski — 2007-12-28T12:27:10Z

Is the 'Social Forum' on Middle East peace and justice in Madrid really part of the independent Social Forum process - or has its work been prejudiced by interference from the Spanish state?

- IV395 - December 2007

Lack of organisation of honest and consistent sectors which underlie revolutionary process

Marea Socialista — 2007-12-19T14:09:52Z

Faced with the close victory of the “no” vote on reform of the Constitution, rendering possible a victory for the right, we should begin a profound reflection.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Venezuela

Ford-Vsevolozhsk strike continues

Maria Kurzina — 2007-12-19T09:04:09Z

The strike on the Ford assembly plant in Vsevolozhsk continues already for
three weeks although management already twice announced it is broken.

- IV395 - December 2007

The remaking of the movement

Farooq Tariq — 2007-12-17T09:06:25Z

There are daily demonstrations against the military dictatorship all over Pakistan. Students, lawyers, journalists and others from the civil society are in the lead this time.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Pakistan

Court delivers a victory for liberation fighters the world over

Ron Ridenour — 2007-12-16T11:07:45Z

A great victory, an unexpected one for several of the affected and observers, was delivered today by Copenhagen's City Court for those who fight for their liberation and sovereignty and for those who act in solidarity.

- IV395 - December 2007 / Denmark