Landless workers’ leader spoke with Brasil de Fato on the next steps for the left after Jair Bolsonaro’s victory
The Irish government needs to stop protecting property developers and start looking out for its people
9 November 2018, byRents are soaring and the government is hand-in-glove with property moguls. Oliver Eagleton reports on the activists fighting for a fairer housing system.
A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte
8 November 2018, byThe letter below was written just before the recent presidential elections in Brazil. We are republishing it here because we think much of what Walden Bello draws out of the comparisons between what Duerte has done in the Philippines and what Jair Bolsonaro presages in Brazil is timely and apposite. (IV)
The new undesirables
7 November 2018Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny unpack neoliberal attitudes to migration and ’low-value’ humans.
Practical internationalism: solidarity in Germany with the Algerian anti-colonial liberation struggle
6 November 2018, by ,Hans Peiffer, born in 1934, has since 1955 been active in the German section of the Fourth International (today the Internationale Sozialistische Organisation, ISO). He was interviewed by Manuel Kellner.
Solidarity With The Latin American Migrant Caravan Headed for the U.S.
5 November 2018, byThis statement was read at a Los Angeles rally in solidarity with the Latin American migrant caravan on November 3, 2018.
The Caravan “Crisis” — Myth and Facts
5 November 2018, byThere’s a lot to be said about the caravan of Central American refugees, hundreds of miles from the U.S. border as they struggle through southern Mexico in hopes of achieving asylum in the United States. Here we will only touch on some of the most basic facts.
The Google Walkout: An International Working-Class Movement
4 November 2018, byThousands of Google employees throughout the United States and around the world walked off their jobs yesterday, Nov. 1, “to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace that doesn’t work for everyone.” Beginning in Singapore and working its way around the globe the movement closed Google offices from Mountain View, California, in Boulder and New York, as well as in London, Dublin, Zurich and Berlin.
Québec solidaire prepares to confront a new government of austerity and social and ethnic polarization QS caucus 2018
3 November 2018, byQuébec solidaire’s 10 members of the National Assembly, elected October 1, took their oath of office on October 17 in two parts.
Europe’s Political Turmoil (Part I)
2 November 2018, byOver the past two years, European politics has seemed like an old-fashioned melodrama with a cliffhanger at the end of each episode. Virtually every election has kept observers on the edge of their seats asking, “Will a far right party be the biggest this time? Will it end up in government? Might it even head the government?”