The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a textbook case for those who wish to understand complex notions like the pillage of a country’s wealth, the intolerable loss of a State’s sovereignty, or the concept of odious debt.
The Red Mosque Saga
16 July 2007, byAt the time, when hundreds died of government negligence during the terrain rains and flood across Pakistan, the Musharaf regime has finally been able to clear the Red Mosque from the “Alqaida and Talaban” supporters after killing of 80, according to the official claims.
The WSF at the crossroads
16 July 2007, byCreated in 2001, after two consecutive years of big mobilisations against the institutions symbolising neoliberal globalisation, the WSF began modestly (15,000 participants) at the first WSF in late January 2001 in Porto Alegre. The process then consolidated itself very rapidly, first in Latin America and in Europe (1st ESF in November 2002 in Florence) and reached South Asia in 2003 (1st Asian Social Forum in 2003 in Hyderabad).
The liberation of Farooq Tariq and other detainees
16 July 2007, byTwo weeks after having been jailed, Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) was freed from prison on June 19, 2007. More than six hundred other people who were imprisoned for participating in demonstrations in recent months had already been freed. Last to be freed, Farooq was also the only national leader of a left party to have been thus placed in detention in June.
After the election, what perspectives for socialists?
12 July 2007, byThe new political situation puts two demands on the agenda: unity to resist the plans of Sarkozyism and a new workers party.
The People’s Parliament
9 July 2007, byA leading member of the Kenyan People’s Parliament talks about the struggle to assemble forces of social resistance in a key African country.
Socialist activist arrested in Saratov
9 July 2007, byIn the evening of 5th July Sergei Vilkov, activist of the Russian socialist movement ‘VPERED’, was taken into custody. This action of the local police results quite logically from their recent unprecedented campaign of pressure against the members of the movement section in Saratov.
For the foundation of a new anti-capitalist party
1 July 2007, byIn order to launch the debate on the perspective of a new anti-capitalist party, first of all among the militants of the LCR, then among all those who might be interested in this project, the National Leadership has adopted the following motion. It obviously does not prejudge the outcome of a discussion which is only beginning and which will now continue over the coming months...
IV391 - July 2007 pdf
1 July 2007Download a pdf version of this month’s edition from here.
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