This statement on solidarity with women in the revolutionary process
in the Arab region was adopted by the annual IC meeting of the Fourth International on the 28th of February, 2012.
International Women’s Day in Indonesia: a struggle for liberation
7 March 2012, byThis year International Women’s Day in Indonesia is marked by an increase of attacks on women. The increasing frequency of violence against women, particularly sexual violence, and the recent government plan to raise the fuelprice threatens and burdens all women, especially poor women. Perempuan Mahardhika (Free Women) is a women’s organization that has been trying to build a women’s movement against all forms of oppression and exploitation caused by capitalism, patriarchy, and militarism. Fighting sexual harassment and economic policies which would further feminize poverty are parts of the important struggle for women’s liberation in Indonesia.
Solidarity with Mexican Electrical Workers
7 March 2012Revolutionary and anticapitalist organizations of countries from throughout the world Meeting in Amsterdam in the Netherlands at the call of the Executive Committee of the Fourth International, demand from the Mexican government led by Felipe Calderón the immediate resolution of the conflict arising from the illegal closure of the company Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
One Year after Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
7 March 2012, byOne year has passed since tremendous scale of earthquake and tsunami catastrophe which severely attacked and destroyed towns and villages in North-East coastal region of Japan. Nearly 20,000 people were killed and missing, 341,000 have been evacuated, and many people lived in affected zones lost their fundamental basis of daily existences, such as houses, public transport, health care, jobs, and their communities.
“The Japanese population won’t accept it any longer”
7 March 2012, byOn March 11, it’s exactly one year ago that North-Eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake and a tsunami with giant 15 meter waves. One of the devastating consequences was a meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the biggest nuclear disaster in 25 years. How is the situation today? Is everything under control? What about the population of Fukushima? How does the disaster influence the nuclear power debate in Japan? David Dessers of De Wereld Mogen asked Satoko Kishimoto, a Japanese climate activist who works for the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam: “People no longer believe what the government tells them. They now measure radiation levels themselves, search for alternative sources of information and take their own safety precautions. The government has abandoned people to their fate”. This interview was made in the run up to the demonstration “No more Fukushima” scheduled to take place on 11 March 2012 in Brussels.
Myths and reality
6 March 2012, byFor about fifteen years, microfinance has been touted as an essential means of emerging from poverty by international institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of microcredit, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microcredit should relegate poverty to history.
Left movement in Bangladesh and CPB(ML)
4 March 2012, byAt the recent meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist) was accepted as a Permanent Observer within the Fourth International. This presentation of the Bangladesh left and his party was made by Pathak Lal Golder at the French New Anticapitalist Party (NPA)’s summer university in Port Leucate in August 2011.
Peasant Movement in Bangladesh and Bangladesh Krishok Federation
3 March 2012, byThis presentation was made by Pathak Lal Golder at the French New Anticapitalist Party (NPA)’s summer university in Port Leucate in August 2011. At the recent meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (M-L) was accepted as a Permanent Observer within the Fourth International.
Greece at war in 2012, as Spain was in 1936 for the people of Europe!
2 March 2012, byThis speech by Sonia Mitralia, member of the Greek Committee Against Debt and the Women’s Initiative against Debt and Austerity Measures, was delivered at the meeting organised in Marseille on 17 February, by the French campaign for “a citizens’ audit of the public debt”.
Europe Gets Shock Therapy like Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s”
2 March 2012, byEric Toussaint, Doctor of Political Science and President of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), is a member of the Commission for an Integral Auditing of Public Debt in Ecuador (CAIC) whose findings resulted in Ecuador stopping its repayment of part of its debt. He claims that Greece must stop paying its debt and must rise up against the Troika (the European Central Bank, the IMF and the European Commission) otherwise it will sink into the doldrums of permanent recession.