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Will Africa Be the Last Oil Frontier?

Lee Wengraf — 2021-10-31T08:05:47Z

“Our continent cannot keep supplying the Global North. We can't.” —INA-MARIA SHIKONGO, Fridays For Future Windhoek

- IV561 - October 2021 / Ecology and the Environment, Namibia

Far from Spring

Joseph Daher — 2021-10-30T07:37:17Z

“We must oppose the authoritarian drift of President Saied, while supporting the progressive and democratic alternatives that confront Ennahda and the other parties in power, to prevent the return to a status quo which is unbearable for the Tunisian popular classes.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / Tunisia, Arab Revolutions

A Lucky Break from Populism?

Andre Kaspas — 2021-10-29T07:03:51Z

“As Czechia [Czech Republic] moves on towards a future that strangely resembles the past, with roughly the same political forces taking over after socio-economic turmoil, as they did in 2010 after the financial crisis, it remains to be seen whether the same mistakes will be repeated.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / Czech Republic

Haitian migrants brutalised and deported at US-Mexico border

Malik Miah — 2021-10-28T05:15:42Z

“What happened to Haitians at the Texas border is, unfortunately, not unusual.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / United States (USA), Haiti, Migration

The past haunts the present in Haiti

Karol Péralte — 2021-10-27T03:48:18Z

“Why is Haiti the poorest country in the Americas?”

- IV561 - October 2021 / Haiti

The Zemmour moment

Stathis Kouvelakis — 2021-10-26T03:24:42Z

Éric Zemmour's rise on the French political scene may seem dazzling — but it certainly didn't fall from the sky. The likely transfer of the main far-right media heavyweight into the party-political arena is a symptom that encapsulates the deeper trends of the current period.

- IV561 - October 2021 / France, Far Right

Algeria as State and Nation

Correspondents l'Anticapitaliste — 2021-10-25T05:00:25Z

“It is the defence of this sovereignty and its development, under new conditions, that the hirak has now introduced into society, with terms and objectives less reductive than those of the government.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / France, Algeria

Stora report: a historian at Macron's service

Josie Boucher — 2021-10-24T07:10:58Z

“History is not neutral, and it can be used and diverted as a support by all governments for their own interests. It is up to all the oppressed and the victims of colonialism and imperialism on both sides of the Mediterranean to write their own history.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / France, Algeria, Historical events and figures

The Great Resignation: A Workers' Movement in America

Dan La Botz — 2021-10-23T05:35:27Z

“For now, workers are quitting because they want to be happier at work. Perhaps nothing is more radical, if that desire can be transformed into more conscious, more collective mass action.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing

”The police kill”: let Darmanin come and get us!

Manu Bichindaritz — 2021-10-22T07:17:16Z

“Philippe Poutou has only described a sad reality, which has been widely documented elsewhere.”

- IV561 - October 2021 / France