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Reflection on the “sardines” movement

Franco Turigliatto — 2019-12-31T07:32:37Z

The Italian political situation is marked by a new and particular movement, that of the “sardines”, which saw several hundred thousand people, many of them young people, take to the streets, culminating in the great demonstration in Rome on 14 December.

- IV539 - December 2019 / Italy

New Prime Minister takes office in Cuba

Fernanda Montanys — 2019-12-30T07:25:25Z

Cuba is reintroducing the office of prime minister, a position that had disappeared in 1976 with the country's first socialist constitution and which returns with the new constitution drawn up in May 2019. Who is this new head of government that nobody expected? How did he get the job and what are his likely political orientations?

- IV539 - December 2019 / Cuba

India and anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act: Modi Might Have Finally Gone Too Far

Achin Vanaik, Thomas Crowley — 2019-12-29T09:02:31Z

With the ongoing mass protests to Modi's anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, India is at last seeing a real challenge to right-wing Hindu nationalism.

- IV539 - December 2019 / India

Viewpoint: Defeating Trump

Dave Jette — 2019-12-28T09:56:46Z

The September-October and November-December 2019 issues of Against the Current carry a debate on the 2020 U.S. presidential election with articles advocating support for Bernie Sanders, support for the Green Party's Howie Hawkins, and “anybody but Trump.” The first two articles have been republished in International Viewpoint, here is the third position.

- IV539 - December 2019 / United States (USA)

Continuous Rebellion in Hong Kong

Au Loong-Yu — 2019-12-27T09:16:05Z

The online journal Sozial.Geschichte Online interviewed Au Loong Yu about the Hong Kong protest movement.

- IV539 - December 2019 / China, Hong Kong

Statement of Radical Socialist on the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), the Proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Ongoing Protests Against Them

Radical Socialist — 2019-12-26T06:58:06Z

The Radical Socialist Group (RS) salutes the students up and down the country that have been the real spark that has ignited this popular agitation against the iniquitous CAA [Citizenship Amendment Act] and the proposed all-India NRC [National Register of Citizenship] that is already being prepared.

- IV539 - December 2019 / India

The political crisis seen “from below”

Claude Le Gouill — 2019-12-25T08:51:45Z

Since the disputed elections of October 20, 2019, Bolivia has been in crisis. Rural inhabitants are at the centre of the debate, with Evo Morales calling on them to mobilize against the cities, reconnecting with his historic base, while the extreme right has found in some rural organizations pragmatic allies to shed its “white” image. But the crisis remains seen from the cities and the games of alliances and oppositions of national organizations. However, analysing it from the bottom allows us to take into account the gap between the different levels of action and to reveal the fragmentation of the opposition as well as the crumbling of historical support for Evo Morales.

- IV539 - December 2019

Keep the embers of the strike alive to start the flames again

Léon Crémieux — 2019-12-24T06:57:11Z

The new day of demonstrations on 17 December confirmed the general trend of increasing social confrontation against pension reform.

- IV539 - December 2019 / France

Argentina: facing another debt crisis

Éric Toussaint — 2019-12-23T07:14:20Z

After four years of brutal neoliberal policies under Mauricio Macri as President, Argentina is again facing a major debt crisis.

- IV539 - December 2019 / Economy, Argentina

Unprecendented mobilizations in Haiti

Arthur Mahon — 2019-12-22T08:08:19Z

The mobilizations that paralysed a large part of Haiti for two months, from mid-September to mid-November 2019, were exceptional. They were the temporary culmination of a movement that started in the summer of 2018, which resurged several times. The spark came in July 2018 following an increase in the price of petroleum products. Then the denunciation of a huge financial scandal, the Petrocaribe fund affair, took on an unprecedented scale. In September 2019, a general shortage of petrol led to the protests, which until then had mainly affected the big cities, spreading throughout the country.

- IV539 - December 2019 / Haiti