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Down with Sisi and Long Live the People!

Revolutionary Socialists of Eygpt — 2019-09-30T13:25:50Z

Whatever the outcome of the demonstrations we are witnessing, and whether or not you stand with them or against them, it is certain that the grip of terror on the hearts of people across Egypt is slackening and that the wall of fear built by the regime during the last six years is cracking and close to collapse. The departure of Sisi is no longer a distant dream, but nearer than ever before.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Egypt

Among the right-wing governments, Bolsonaro's is the one with most neo-fascist features

Michael Löwy — 2019-09-28T20:33:43Z

Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, has been one of Europe's most influential Marxists for the past 30 years. In this interview, translated from Portuguese, he discusses Jair Bolsonaro and the global return of the right.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment

Let's win back our future: change the system not the climate

Fourth International Bureau — 2019-09-26T19:37:26Z

The week of mobilization that began on Friday, 20 September is of an historic scale: already more than five thousand events in 156 countries, four million demonstrators. Hundreds of thousands of young people have been coming out of their schools and universities on climate strike for months and are massively present this week, largely responding to the call by Greta Thunberg. There is a new generation rising on all continents to avert the ongoing climate catastrophe.

- IV536 - September 2019 / World, Fourth International, Climate

The millennial generation's struggle for self-determination

Au Loong-Yu — 2019-09-26T06:52:26Z

Over the last few months, a massive wave of mass struggle emerged in Hong Kong and attracted the world's attention. We are republishing this interview with Hong Kong socialist Au Loong Yu published by Think Left, which has interviewed local social activists in Hong Kong, in order to allow its readers to have an in-depth understanding on the current political crisis and mass struggles in Hong Kong from a perspective beyond mainstream media.

- IV536 - September 2019 / China, Hong Kong

The New York City Student Climate Strike

Barry Sheppard — 2019-09-25T09:17:34Z

When I got up the morning of the September 20 world-wide student climate strike, I turned on the TV news with my cup of coffee, and saw a huge, spirited and loud demonstration in Melbourne, Australia, held the previous day, which was September 20 there. I was both surprised and inspired.

- IV536 - September 2019 / United States (USA), Ecology and the Environment, Climate

The Day After Macri's Downfall

Martín Mosquera — 2019-09-24T09:22:08Z

Argentina's recent elections have set the country's right on the path to defeat. But that won't immediately put the working class back in the driver's seat â€” much greater mobilization is needed for that.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Argentina

Striking General Motors Workers Aren't Backing Down

Dianne Feeley — 2019-09-23T12:23:06Z

Nearly 50,000 UAW members are on strike for the third day. For years, they've been hit with plant closings, pay cuts, and two-tier contracts â€” and they aren't ready to make concessions.

- IV536 - September 2019 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

Lexit will not dismantle Fortress Europe

Sabrina Huck — 2019-09-22T07:20:25Z

Climate strikes across the globe highlight the plight of climate refugees, or “economic migrants” as they are wrongly labelled. The question of migration has been a central one in the British debate on the European Union. We publish a contribution from Labour List.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Britain, Migration, European Union

Why build a global climate strike in Brazil?

Fernanda Melchionna, Samia Bomfin — 2019-09-21T09:33:39Z

The last four years (between 2015 and 2018) were the hottest years in our history, since temperatures were measured regularly and on a global scale in the year 18001. Global warming is a reality, denied only by those who insist on attacking science. Excessive emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane – mainly from the burning of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) and the livestock – intensify the greenhouse effect, a phenomenon of heat retention on Planet Earth.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment

Pakistan: Capitalism and climate change

Ammar Ali Jan — 2019-09-20T07:43:23Z

The week from September 20 till September 27 has been designated as the week of the â€˜Climate Strike'. It is an unprecedented event in its ambition to disrupt business as usual.

- IV536 - September 2019 / Ecology and the Environment, Pakistan