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Canada - After the federal election: the dangers, and challenges, that lie ahead

Pierre Beaudet — 2019-10-31T07:55:07Z

It is still early to interpret fully the results of Canada's October 21 federal election. But behind the immediate results some trends are clear.
Canada's Federal Election, 2019

- IV537 - October 2019 / Canada

The World Up in Arms Against Austerity and Authoritarianism

Dan La Botz — 2019-10-30T12:37:10Z

Much of the world at this moment is a laboratory searching for the cure for capitalism, and the social scientists running the experiments are in the streets.

- IV537 - October 2019 / France, Iraq, Haiti, Chile, Algeria, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Sudan, Catalonia

Syria, refugees, and solidarity

Leila Al-Shami — 2019-10-29T10:17:57Z

As current international pushes for Syrian refugee returns take hold, European solidarity efforts must understand that the danger of return is not simply war but corrupt and brutal state repression.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Syria, Migration

Bolivian Horizons: An Interview with Pablo Solón

Jeffery R Webber — 2019-10-28T09:40:34Z

Bolivians went to the polls on Sunday, October 20, 2019. According to the country's electoral system, in order to avoid a second round in presidential elections the leading candidate must secure 51 percent of the vote, or more than 40 percent of the vote and a lead of 10 percent over the second place candidate.

- IV537 - October 2019

Impeachment and Imperialism

Against the Current Editors — 2019-10-27T08:59:47Z

Donald Trump is the first modern politician who's used the U.S. presidency â€” as everyone knows, since the liberal media, punditry and presidential historians repeat it on a daily basis â€” to brazenly solicit a foreign regime's intervention for his personal benefit in electoral politics. It's a damning indictment of the “big twit” in the White House. It also happens to be false. The notorious precedents aren't even secret anymore: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, in their election campaigns, pulled the kind of tricks that Trump did with Russia in 2016.

- IV537 - October 2019 / United States (USA)

Egypt: Massive repression against mobilizations

Joseph Daher — 2019-10-26T06:32:04Z

The biggest popular mobilizations since the coming to power in 2013 of the dictator Sissi shook Egypt at the end of September, against a backdrop of political protest by the regime and an ever more difficult socio - economic situation. After protests began in Cairo and several Egyptian cities on September 20, the authorities reacted by mass repression and a wave of arrests of over 3,000 people.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Egypt

Iraq: A wind of anger blows

Joseph Daher — 2019-10-26T06:31:42Z

Massive new mass mobilizations are shaking Iraq. The protesters are denouncing economic and social difficulties, corruption and the ruling bourgeois and confessional political parties.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Iraq, Iran

“The People Want the Fall of the Regime”

Joseph Daher — 2019-10-25T06:05:19Z

The streets of Lebanon are ringing with protest chants as the country witnesses its largest popular movement in decades. Their target: a political and economic system that impoverishes the many while enriching the few.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Lebanon, Arab Revolutions

Spirit of war in Turkey: Party of War vs Party of Bread

Metin Feyyaz — 2019-10-24T17:48:17Z

The alleged jubilation at the start of the First World War in Germany is called Spirit of 1914 by some people. If we use the same example we can call current public sentiment about war in Turkey Spirit of 2019.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Turkey, Kurdistan

The International Left Must Come to the Aid of the Hong Kong People

Fourth International Bureau — 2019-10-23T16:44:01Z

The Hong Kong government, in the face of the massive opposition movement since early June, finally made the promise to withdraw the China Extradition bill altogether in early September. However, the people have refused to put a halt to the movement. They continue pressing their five demands, formulated in July. The first four are related to the immediate situation (the complete withdrawal of the bill; establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into police conduct; retraction of the designation of “riot” to describe the protests; amnesty for arrested protesters), and the fifth is universal suffrage – something that Beijing promised in the (1997) Basic Law. They have kept up their protests because the three-month struggle has revealed one simple fact: Beijing's hidden agenda is to finish off Hong Kong's autonomy altogether. This understanding has prompted them to continue the struggle, which has escalated into a great battle to save Hong Kong autonomy.

- IV537 - October 2019 / Fourth International, China, Hong Kong