"We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune... They lasted 70 days and we are still here since a year and a half." This is how the organic intellectual Omar Aziz described the revolution in Syria. On 17 February 2013, Aziz was martyred in Adra Central Prison.
An analysis of the present stage of the biggest popular movement
10 April 2017, by ,What we are proposing to do here is to analyse the ongoing movement in French Guiana. This article, written on March 31st, tries to offer an initial analysis and perspectives on what is already the largest popular movement in Guiana.
An update to the article was included in its publication in Inprecor on 3 April 2017. This is published at the end of the article, as is a statement from the GRS, Antilles section of the Fourth International, issued on 27 March 2017.
Why Being Against Assad Matters Too
10 April 2017, byRally against US imperial intervention, but remember Assad’s crimes and be in solidarity with his victims.
On Assad’s Chemical Bombing & Trump’s Latest Airstrikes
9 April 2017, by ,The Trump administration’s April 6 targeted missile strike on the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched, is not a reflection of any genuine concern for the Syrian people. It will not help the struggle against the Assad regime, ISIS and Al Qaida. Instead, this administration’s latest airstrikes are motivated by other aims.
Trump’s New and Used Middle East War
8 April 2017, byThis statement was issued by the National Committee of Solidarity on 7
April 2017.
After the US bombing in Syria
8 April 2017This statement was issued by Philippe Poutou, the NPA candidate for the French presidential elections, on 7 April 2017.
In support of Philippe Poutou
7 April 2017, byThe first round of the French presidential elections will take place on Sunday 22 April. The five “major” candidates are in some disarray. And a recent television debate catapulted “minor candidates” into the spotlight. Notably Philippe Poutou of the New Anticapitalist Party. Anticapitalistas, the Fourth Interntional identified current in Podemos, has stated its support for Poutou.
Europe’s false choice
4 April 2017, byLast weekend marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Union’s foundational agreement.
The party for the occasion was all set, except for one thing: EU elites were confused about which tune to play, caught between celebrating past conquests and focusing on the word of the moment — speed. Which is to say, a Europe going at two or more speeds, depending on who we’re asking.
Ireland Strikes for Repeal
3 April 2017, byJust prior to International Women’s Day Jacobin published this interview wih one of the prominent activists of the Irish pro-choice movement.
Romania’s protests - from social justice to class politics
2 April 2017, byRomania was swept at the beginning of February 2017 with the “largest protests since the fall of communism”. The protests were widely covered in the Western press, which generally took the liberal line that the protests represented the Romanian people’s struggle for “democracy” against the widespread “local corruption”, prompted by the scandalous attempt of the current government to “decriminalize corruption” [1]. An undertow of the same interpretation looked at the protests as a democratic revival of the struggles against communist totalitarianism from 1989.