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Europe

The lefts in the crisis

The situation of the "lefts" cannot be understood without starting from the crisis, its multiple dimensions and its effects on the social and political field. Hitting head-on all the organizations and parties linked to the history of the workers’ movement, precipitating ruptures, it obliges political forces to recompose around new axes. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet bloc announced a new era: the current upheavals give this era its content. The present crisis is global: in economic terms, it is the consequence of an over-accumulation of capital, an overproduction of goods and commodities and an under-consumption of the masses. The “real economy” of the imperialist centres is settling into a long-term recessive logic, and none of the "orthodox" economic experts ventures onto the theme of a "way out of the crisis”.

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Fourth International

To continue the debate on broad parties

This report was presented to the 2013 International Committee meeting of the Fourth International by Laurent Carasso for the Bureau to introduce a general discussion after the presentation and discussion of reports on the balance sheet of party-building experiences in Pakistan, the Spanish state and France. Contributions on these experiences and on the general discussion are published in our Debate section “Building new parties of the left”.

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Syria

Self-organization in the Syrian people’s revolution

The following documents are part of a publication on the current experiences of local councils, published in issue number 13 of the newspaper Al Khatt Al Amami ("The Front Line") of the Current of the Revolutionary Left in Syria. Some of the articles are taken from the website of the critical democratic opposition Zaman Alwasl, established in Homs in 2005.

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