IVP 528 January 2019 PDF
The resignation of the World Bank president should encourage countries to terminate all agreement with the Bretton Woods institutions
30 January 2019, byOn Monday, 7 January 2019, Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (WB) has announced his resignation. Kristalina Georgieva, the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank will assume the role of interim President effective February 1 till the President of the United States, Donald Trump designates Kim’s successor. Truly symbolic of this anti-democratic institution working against the interests of the people of the planet.
How Kabila and the mining giants went from best friends to adversaries
29 January 2019, by ,A new mining code has created a rift between mining multinationals and government.
Toward Sudan’s Next Revolution
27 January 2019, byA popular revolt is spreading across Sudan. At stake is not just the fate of authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir, but the country’s whole power structure.
The King Stands Naked
26 January 2019, by ,The gilets jaunes movement has discredited not just Macron, but the entire French elite.
Middle East-North Africa: Peoples face counter-revolution and imperialism
25 January 2019, byThis is a look back at the year 2018, which began with a revolt in Iran, against the high cost of living, social inequalities, corruption and the authoritarianism of the regime of the Mullahs and with demonstrations bloodily repressed, like those currently taking place in Sudan . The insurrectional process that opened in the Middle East-North Africa region in the winter of 2010-2011 is far from complete, although it is clear, and the year 2018 has unfortunately again illustrated it, that the counter-revolutionary forces, supported by their imperialist allies, are still on the offensive.
No to the coup in Venezuela! For a democratic solution to the crisis!
24 January 2019, byThis statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 24 January 2019.
On the attacks on the EZLN
24 January 2019, byAt the beginning the year a series of attacks, some slanderous, were unleashed against the EZLN following its New Year statements, especially those by Commander Moises, concerning the projects of the new Mexican government, headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The African Continental Free Trade Area: What Kind of Pan-Africanism?
23 January 2019, byOn March 21, 2018, five years after celebrating the half-century of existence of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)/African Union (AU) – considered in the AU Newspeak as "fifty years of success" , 44 of the 55 AU member states signed in Kigali the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) - the creation of a "single market for goods and services facilitated by the movement of persons [...], a liberalized market for goods and services" according to the text of the Agreement.
