The 2012 Quebec student strikes delivered one of the few victories we have seen in anti-austerity struggles in the Canadian state. The mobilization, which at its high point saw over 300,000 students on limited or unlimited strike, and demonstrations of hundreds of thousands, was a crucial highpoint that has a great deal to teach radicals. The attempted clampdown by the Jean Charest government through Bill 78 [1] that attempted to outlaw the movement, unleashed a new and innovative round of resistance including the casseroles night marches.
Solidarity against repression!
16 February 2013, byTwo months ago, we, representatives of the Russian left, asked for your solidarity in the face of the coming wave of political repressions in Russia.
All the region is boiling
13 February 2013, byGilbert Achcar’s forthcoming book, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013) is due out later this year. He was interviewed in December 2012 by International Socialist Review with whose permission we are republishing the interview.
Down with the government of murderers!
7 February 2013Ligue de la Gauche Ouvrière (LGO – Workers’ Left League) press release on the assassination of the comrade martyr Chokri Belaïd (February 6, 2013).
Spain is in the hands of thieves
4 February 2013, byNo doubt. We are in the hands of thieves. The Barcenas, Pallerols, Crespo, Nóos and Mercurio cases, added to the Gürtel case, Millet, Champion, Pretoria and many others, show that those who have been giving us lessons of austerity have been benefitting: not only the bankers and businessmen but also, when the cameras have not focussed on them, the politicians, who have filled their pockets in order to live in opulence and extravagance. And at our expense.
Labour Activists Criminalised!
4 February 2013, bySulthoni Farras is a worker that became a victim of layoffs at a company in the capital city of Jakarta when the crisis hit in 1998. Despite this, he continued with the struggle by building the cross-sector union that later became the union Federation Progresip under the confederation KASBI.
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