IVP 525 October 2018 PDF magazine
What lasted for 3000 years has been destroyed in 30": the struggle for food sovereignty in Tunisia
31 October 2018, byOctober 16 is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the Global South.
The fight for the Hambach forest: impressions of the weekend of victory
30 October 2018, by"Hambi bleibt!" ("Hambi rest!" The rallying cry of the movement. Hambi is an affectively charged abbreviation.) The long, mass citizens’ struggle to protect the Hambach woods near Cologne, threatened by the extension of a lignite mine, has won a major, albeit partial, victory.
Faced with Nicaragua’s social and political crisis - Solidarity with popular demands and against Ortegista repression!
29 October 2018, byThis statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 28 October 2018.
Murder Most Foul: Accomplices After the Fact
28 October 2018, byThe abduction-torture-murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey must have been planned as a kind of perfect crime in which the journalist would mysteriously disappear without a trace. It went “wrong” because the death squad dispatched by the Saudi royal court – which everyone knows means Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) – made several miscalculations.
Bolsonaro’s Most Dangerous Supporters
27 October 2018, by ,Establishment outlets like the Economist insist the Brazilian military is a moderating influence on the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. But precisely the opposite is true.
The scandalous position of the São Paulo forum on Nicaragua
26 October 2018, byJuly 2018, Havana. On the podium of Heads of State: Miguel DÃaz Canal, Raúl Castro (President-Elect and President of Cuba), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Salvador Sánchez Cerén (El Salvador) opened the sessions of the XXIV São Paulo Forum (SPF), the annual summit of Latin American progressivism.
Behind the ‘Black Protests’
25 October 2018, byOn the second anniversary of the massive protests that defeated an ultra-reactionary abortion law in Poland, an indepth analysis of how this movement came about.
Why the EU keeps organising anti-migration propaganda events in Africa.
24 October 2018, byOn a hot November evening last year [2017], I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football star Didier Drogba was urging hundreds of local youth to chant, "I promise I won’t migrate! I promise I won’t migrate! I promise I won’t migrate!"
China-Africa: harmful illusions
23 October 2018, byThe object of fantasies, polemics and academic theses, China’s presence in Africa raises many questions.