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robm — 2019-01-31T08:39:00Z

IVP 528 January 2019 PDF

- IV528 - January 2019 / PDF

The resignation of the World Bank president should encourage countries to terminate all agreement with the Bretton Woods institutions

CADTM International — 2019-01-30T07:07:15Z

On Monday, 7 January 2019, Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (WB) has announced his resignation. Kristalina Georgieva, the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank will assume the role of interim President effective February 1 till the President of the United States, Donald Trump designates Kim's successor. Truly symbolic of this anti-democratic institution working against the interests of the people of the planet.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Economy

How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries

Claude Kabemba, Pascal Kambale — 2019-01-29T10:11:44Z

A new mining code has created a rift between mining multinationals and government.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Democratic Republic of Congo

Toward Sudan's Next Revolution

Tarek Cheikh — 2019-01-27T09:06:15Z

A popular revolt is spreading across Sudan. At stake is not just the fate of authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir, but the country's whole power structure.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Sudan

The King Stands Naked

Josu Egireun, Olivier Besancenot — 2019-01-26T07:21:52Z

The gilets jaunes movement has discredited not just Macron, but the entire French elite.

- IV528 - January 2019 / France

Middle East-North Africa: Peoples face counter-revolution and imperialism

Julien Salingue — 2019-01-25T15:47:55Z

This is a look back at the year 2018, which began with a revolt in Iran, against the high cost of living, social inequalities, corruption and the authoritarianism of the regime of the Mullahs and with demonstrations bloodily repressed, like those currently taking place in Sudan . The insurrectional process that opened in the Middle East-North Africa region in the winter of 2010-2011 is far from complete, although it is clear, and the year 2018 has unfortunately again illustrated it, that the counter-revolutionary forces, supported by their imperialist allies, are still on the offensive.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Yemen, Sudan

No to the coup in Venezuela! For a democratic solution to the crisis!

Fourth International Bureau — 2019-01-24T20:39:17Z

This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 24 January 2019.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Fourth International, Venezuela

On the attacks on the EZLN

Edgard Sanchez — 2019-01-24T05:20:35Z

At the beginning the year a series of attacks, some slanderous, were unleashed against the EZLN following its New Year statements, especially those by Commander Moises, concerning the projects of the new Mexican government, headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Brazil, Mexico

The African Continental Free Trade Area: What Kind of Pan-Africanism?

Jean Nanga — 2019-01-23T08:45:10Z

On March 21, 2018, five years after celebrating the half-century of existence of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU) – considered in the AU Newspeak as "fifty years of success" , 44 of the 55 AU member states signed in Kigali the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) - the creation of a "single market for goods and services facilitated by the movement of persons [...], a liberalized market for goods and services" according to the text of the Agreement.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Economy, Africa, Nigeria

“Overthrow the regime and prepare the future”

2019-01-22T07:14:43Z

Rashid Saeed Yagoub is a journalist and former militant of the Sudanese Communist Party. in exile France since 1992, he is an active member of the networks supporting the ongoing popular uprising in Sudan.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Sudan