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Did the Israeli left disappear?

Michel Warschawski — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

The silence of the Israeli peace camp during the last month has been widely reported in the international media, as well as the return of many of its main spokespersons to the bosom of National Unity and uncritical support to the criminal acts of the Israeli army and the Labour government.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Palestine, Israel

Al-Aqsa Intifada: The Refusal to Surrender

Dr Majed Nassar, Nassar Ibrahim — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

The present Intifada is based on a number of political realities that form a framework within which we can understand more fully the events of the past five weeks in the Palestinian occupied territories. Before beginning an analysis of these realities, however, it must be clearly stated that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is solely responsible for the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Palestine

Thus an Apartheid Regime Develops

Azmi Bishara — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seems that recent events are leading to the implementation of an Apartheid regime in the State of Israel, and the completion of a comprehensive Apartheid reality within the borders of Israel and in the Occupied Territories.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Palestine

The Tantheem Wildcard

Toufic Haddad — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sundown Saturday, October 7th. Doha neighbourhood, just south of Bethlehem. Droves of people have been making there way up this dilapidated hillside to pay their respects to the family of Mustapha Fararjeh. Fararjeh, 22,was killed two days earlier. A group of 25 masked men march into the funeral tent. This is the Tantheem.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Palestine

Success for Conference of European anti-capitalist left

François Vercammen — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

A European conference involving a series of parties and movements of the radical left was held in Paris on December 4-5, to coincide with the European Union (EU) Summit under French presidency.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Europe

European Conference of the Anti-capitalist Left

European Anti-Capitalist Left — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of December, preparing for the Nice counter-summit the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR, French section of the Fourth International) acted as host to the second European conference of the anti-capitalist left in Paris. Around forty representatives of left parties and united left formations from eight countries attended. Groups from three other states sent apologies. The following text was released as a press statement at the end of the conference.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Europe

Ecology debate opened

2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

At its November 2000 meeting the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Fourth International (the world-wide organisation of revolutionary socialists) discussed a draft resolution on "Socialism and ecology" which will be debated at the 15th World Congress of the Fourth International.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Ecology and the Environment

Ecology and Socialism

2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

Humanity has faced ecological problems at other times, but these have taken on a new urgency nowadays due to their scope and gravity. Damage to the environment often has an irreversible impact on man and nature and the ecological crisis on the horizon at the dawn of the 21st Century is endangering the lives of millions of people.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Ecology and the Environment, Fourth International

USA - Elections 2000

Noam Chomsky — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most striking fact about the November 2000 elections is that they were a statistical tie (for Congress as well, virtually). The most interesting question is what this shows, if anything, about the state of functioning democracy.

- IV327 - January 2001 / United States (USA)

Women lead the way

Susan Caldwell — 2001-01-05T00:00:00Z

Chanting and cheering, tens, hundreds and thousands of women demonstrated in 159 countries during the second and third weeks of October. The World March of Women Against Poverty and Violence was a huge success - although ignored by the media of almost all countries.

- IV327 - January 2001 / Women