IVP465 PDF available to download here
IVP465 PDF available to download here
A new stage for the left
31 October 2013, by , ,On Sunday, October 27, 2013 midterm elections were held in Argentina and their results may have important consequences for the country and the region. Franck Gaudichaud interviewed Claudio Katz and Eduardo Lucita, members of the EDI (Economists of the Left) collective.
The winds of June still blowing in Brazil
30 October 2013, byOn Friday 25 October, teachers in the State of Rio de Janeiro went back to work after 78 days on strike, and with a growing solidarity movement behind them. The local education authorities had agreed to a pay rise of 15%, the payment of strike days lost and a number of other benefits. One day earlier, oil workers across Brazil also returned to work after a one week strike against the first round of tendering exploitation rights in the huge Libra oil field, deep below the ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. They hadn’t stopped the auction, but they too won a significant wage increase from the semi-state oil company, Petrobras. This declaration by Insurgencia, a new current of revolutionaries within the Brazilian PSOL, was issued the weekend before, while both strikes were in full swing. [IVP]
18th and 19th October: two special days in the fightback in Italy
27 October 2013, byTens of thousands of workers, young people, migrants and activists from the environmental movements peacefully filled up Rome’s streets in two extraordinary days of mobilisation on the 18th and 19th of October.
From Aleppo: ?No one is legitimate but the people - Without the people there is no legitimacy
23 October 2013Once more the Syrian revolutionary process is betrayed by a figure of the international left. The article of philosopher Slavoj Zizek published in the Guardian on September 6 2013, entitled “Syria is a pseudo-struggle” (here) was unknown to me until very recently, actually yesterday. As this article came out from an important figure of the international left, I believe it is necessary to answer and contradict them and for others also on the left to show that this is not an opinion shared by all comrades. This is why I will deconstruct the article of Slavoj Zizek and demonstrate not only his wrong analysis and information on the Syrian revolution but his elitism as well.
Catalonia: a Constituent Process to decide everything
23 October 2013, byNobody said that it would be easy, but it is necessary to try. And this is precisely what is being done through the Constituent Process in Catalonia, led by the Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades and the economist Arcadi Oliveres, along with many other people. To create social consciousness, to mobilize, to promote civil disobedience and to raise a political alternative that defies those who monopolize power.
Its objective is to construct a new politico-social instrument, based on popular self-organization, loyal to those of at the bottom and able to contribute, in diversity, to the social and political left as a whole. On the horizon, if things work out, it expresses the will to compete in the next elections to the Catalan Parliament, with a broad candidacy, the result of the necessary confluence of many people, some currently inside and others outside the Process, that aspires to transform social discontent into a political majority and to establish the bases to promote a constituent process, that allows us to collectively equip ourselves with a new political framework in the service of the majority.
Eight questions on trade union independence and politics
22 October 2013The Charleroi & Sud-Hainaut regional organization is the second biggest of the FGTB in membership terms (102,000). It has just printed ten thousand copies of a pamphlet whose key passages we reproduce here.
The LCR, the radical left and the Charleroi Appeal
21 October 2013, byAll the left political organisations support the appeal of the Charleroi FGTB, all were enthusiastically present on April 27, 2013 at the day of struggle it organised jointly with the CNE, and all participate fraternally in the support committee that has been meeting monthly since January 2013.
40,000 march against nuclear power in Tokyo
19 October 2013, byRight-wing nationalist Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe claims radiation from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor is perfectly under control at his presentation speech to the International Olympic Committee general assembly in Buenos Aires on September 7.
Ths shameless assertion by Abe is completely false. Highly radiation-contaminated water is massively leaking into the soil and sea everyday, and both TEPCO and the government could nothing to control Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Class trades unionism seeks political expression
17 October 2013, byIn the social and political history of Belgium, May 1, 2012 could perhaps mark a milestone. On that day the leaders of the Charleroi regional branch of the socialist trade union FGTB — the second biggest in the country, with 102,000 members — publicly broke with the social democratic party and called for a rallying of the left to the perspective of a new broad, anti-capitalist force to the left of the PS and the Greens. An unprecedented thunder bolt… and not without consequences.
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