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IVP 525 October 2018 PDF magazine

robm — 2018-10-31T09:12:00Z

IVP 525 October 2018 PDF magazine

- IV525 - October 2018 / PDF

What lasted for 3000 years has been destroyed in 30": the struggle for food sovereignty in Tunisia

Max Ajl — 2018-10-31T07:17:08Z

October 16 is the International Day of Action for Peoples' Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the Global South.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Ecology and the Environment, Tunisia

The fight for the Hambach forest: impressions of the weekend of victory

Angela Klein — 2018-10-30T08:28:40Z

"Hambi bleibt!" ("Hambi rest!" The rallying cry of the movement. Hambi is an affectively charged abbreviation.) The long, mass citizens' struggle to protect the Hambach woods near Cologne, threatened by the extension of a lignite mine, has won a major, albeit partial, victory.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Germany, Ecology and the Environment

Faced with Nicaragua's social and political crisis - Solidarity with popular demands and against Ortegista repression!

Fourth International Bureau — 2018-10-29T07:53:11Z

This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 28 October 2018.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Fourth International, Nicaragua

Murder Most Foul: Accomplices After the Fact

David Finkel — 2018-10-28T07:56:03Z

The abduction-torture-murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey must have been planned as a kind of perfect crime in which the journalist would mysteriously disappear without a trace. It went “wrong” because the death squad dispatched by the Saudi royal court – which everyone knows means Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) – made several miscalculations.

- IV525 - October 2018 / United States (USA), Turkey, Saudi Arabia

Bolsonaro's Most Dangerous Supporters

Aldo Cordeiro Sauda, Benjamin Fogel — 2018-10-27T08:06:40Z

Establishment outlets like the Economist insist the Brazilian military is a moderating influence on the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. But precisely the opposite is true.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Brazil

The scandalous position of the SÃ£o Paulo forum on Nicaragua

Ernesto Herrera — 2018-10-26T05:15:15Z

July 2018, Havana. On the podium of Heads of State: Miguel DÃaz Canal, RaÃºl Castro (President-Elect and President of Cuba), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) opened the sessions of the XXIV SÃ£o Paulo Forum (SPF), the annual summit of Latin American progressivism.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Latin America, Future of socialism (Latin American debate), Nicaragua

Behind the â€˜Black Protests'

Pawe? Szelegieniec — 2018-10-25T12:02:12Z

On the second anniversary of the massive protests that defeated an ultra-reactionary abortion law in Poland, an indepth analysis of how this movement came about.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Poland, Women

Why the EU keeps organising anti-migration propaganda events in Africa.

Fabian Wagner — 2018-10-24T15:11:56Z

On a hot November evening last year [2017], I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football star Didier Drogba was urging hundreds of local youth to chant, "I promise I won't migrate! I promise I won't migrate! I promise I won't migrate!"

- IV525 - October 2018 / Africa, Migration, Ivory Coast, European Union

China-Africa: harmful illusions

Paul Martial — 2018-10-23T10:30:56Z

The object of fantasies, polemics and academic theses, China's presence in Africa raises many questions.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Africa, China