The rejection of the policies of cuts and aggression against the working classes that started on 15M also has been expressed today in the polls. It is a further demonstration that there are many people who have not given up, that there is a broad social base to continue to work for radical social and political change, that puts an end to the evictions, the abuses in banking, exploitation and labour precariousness, to macho violence, to the impediments to the self-determination of the peoples, to ecocide.
Greece: Why Capitulate? Another Way Is Possible
21 December 2015, byÉric Toussaint critiques SYRIZA’s attitude since 2010 regarding the debt, explaining how the Greek government came to sign the disastrous agreement of 13 July 2015. One of the fundamental explanations is their failure to take the audit of Greece’s debt into consideration. And yet had they done so, they could have suspended repayment of the debt and avoided submitting to the creditors’ diktats. Éric Toussaint presents a Plan B that takes into account the debt, the banks, austerity, currency and taxation.
COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
19 December 2015, byThe COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
What Happened to the Arab Spring?
18 December 2015, by ,Today marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprising. Sparked in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, a wave of revolutionary contagion spread across the Arab world. Millions of people took to the streets demanding dignity, democracy, and social justice. Mass mobilizations on an unprecedented scale in recent history took place in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, and transformed social and political dynamics across the whole region. A politics of hope became possible.
The state of play before December 20
17 December 2015, by ,Manual Gari, interviewed by Katerina Sergidou (activist of the Greek organization DEA, which is part of Popular Unity)
Catalonia: Referendum and constituent process
16 December 2015, byThe electoral campaign for the Spanish state parliamentary elections on December 10, 2015 has brought back the elongated shadow of the great absentee of Catalan politics: the binding referendum. Denied by the state and replaced by the pro-independence forces with elections converted into a plebiscite, the presence of the absent referendum is felt increasingly.
Regionals: Look out! Danger! The world of labour must take back the initiative
14 December 2015, byThis statements was issued by the NPA on the evening of Sunday 13th Deecember after the second round of the French regional elections. Depsite having topped the polls in six regions out of thirteen in the first round the far-right party of Marine Le Pen finally won none, the right wing Les Républicains (The Republicans) party of Nicolas Sarkozy won 7 while the Socialist Party (PS) won 5. Corsica was won by a bloc of nationalist parties.
Against Sexual Violence and Rape, Against State Terror, Against Communalist Violence and Intolerance
13 December 2015, byThis is an edited version of Soma Marik’s speech at the Press Conference on 4th December and that given at the Das Theke Das Hajar meeting of 7th December 2015.
Let us mobilise against dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity
11 December 2015We fight dictatorships, imperialist aggression and Daesh. We reject the politics of “national security”, racism and austerity. It’s time to mobilise!
Grassroots environmental struggles in China
11 December 2015, byJust in the last month there have been two cases of environmental protests occurring in China. Around one thousand people protested on the streets of Yangjiang city, in Guangdong province, against the construction of an incinerator. And ten thousand people protested against a chemical factory in Shangrao city, Jianxi province. The protesters in both cases battled with the police. As a result, many people were injured or arrested.