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The most serious crisis in the Workers Party's history

José Correa Leite — 2005-06-30T21:11:57Z

The declarations by the president of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), Roberto Jefferson, have provoked the biggest scandal the Brazilian Congress has seen since the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Budget, in 1992.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Brazil, New parties of the left

Zapatistas: What we intend to do now (parts 5 & 6)

EZLN — 2005-06-29T18:34:27Z

Final two parts of the EZLN's 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, in which they explain their new policy of outreach and alliances, to help refound the Mexican and international Left "from below."

- IV368 - June 2005 / Mexico

Denmark: The Case for a Red 'No'

Bjarke Friborg — 2005-06-25T18:49:59Z

During this round of EU-debate in Denmark, the left wing has had a clear and distinct presence - with a marked internationalist perspective. The past six months has been characterised by the appearance of a range of clearly left wing initiatives.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Denmark

China - capitalist superpower?

Gilbert Achcar — 2005-06-25T17:53:59Z

In this interview Gilbert Achcar discusses whether China will achieve the kind of global superpower status that would enable it to challenge the United States.

- IV368 - June 2005 / China

What the Western media doesn't tell you

Gilbert Achcar — 2005-06-23T18:56:06Z

Gilbert Achcar presents articles from the Arab press which give a startlingly different account of what is happening in Iraq to that of the mainstream Western media.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Iraq

Zapatistas: What we intend to do now (parts 3 & 4)

EZLN — 2005-06-20T00:00:00Z

Here we publish parts 3 and 4 of the EZLN Declaration, adopted by a big majority at their recent "consulta".

- IV368 - June 2005 / Mexico

Zapatistas: What we intend to do now (parts 1 & 2 of the 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona)

EZLN — 2005-06-19T00:00:00Z

Here we publish parts 1 and 2 of the EZLN Declaration, adopted by a big majority at their recent "consulta". The EZLN proposals are less dramatic than some expected. They maintain their "offensive ceasefire", and promise to pursue a much more proactive policy of alliances with the rest of the left, and all those fighting neoliberalism.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Mexico

Battles for peace

Pierre Rousset — 2005-06-16T23:01:08Z

In Mindanao, our comrades of the Revolutionary Workers' Party of Mindanao (RPM-M) are engaged in peace talks with the government. They are building relations of solidarity between the â€˜three peoples' of the island. This report was written following a recent visit to Mindanao.

- IV368 - June 2005

Hopes and Limitations of the Popular Forces

Jeffery R Webber — 2005-06-13T19:40:43Z

The first round of Bolivia's second gas war has concluded with the resignation of President Carlos Mesa and the promise of new elections. For the moment the mobilisations have been called off. There is everything still to play for.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Bolivia

Netherlands: A vote against neo-liberalism

Willem Bos — 2005-06-10T17:45:51Z

The outcome of the Dutch referendum on the European constitution is a clear stand against the neo-liberal project. It is not a vote against Europe, European co-operation, integration or union, but rather a vote against the neo-liberal Europe that this constitution was an attempt to set in stone. This does not mean that the vote was unambiguously left wing or progressive.

- IV368 - June 2005 / Netherlands