“Throughout that organizing work, I didn’t believe we were going to win. I was used to working on campaigns where you fight, you fight, you fight because it’s the longterm struggle. But here we won.”
Region’s dilemmas reflected on the streets of Colombia
30 July 2021, by ,“The path will be neither linear nor easy, there will be ups and downs, defeats and victories. The big challenge is to be in the struggles, with this new combative generation fighter, to build with it (and not for it) our programme of rupture.”
Protests in Haiti repudiate authoritarianism and US intervention Interview
29 July 2021, byFrom 14 February 2021, thousands of Haitians took to the streets every weekend in the capital of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere to protest President Jovenel Moïse’s refusal to abdicate power. Moïse, elected with U.S. backing in November 2016, had exploited an alleged loophole in Haiti’s constitution that states the duration of the presidential term is five years. Moïse was subsequently attacked and killed in his home on 7 July, in circumstances which have still not been fully clarified. Arvind Dilawar of Jacobin spoke to Kim Ives, editor of Haïti Liberté about the protests, before Moïse’s assassination.
For the climate, for life, for us and our children now is the time to fight!
28 July 2021, by“Life on Earth can recover from major climate change by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems. Humanity cannot.” This is what can be read in the IPCC draft report (6th assessment report, expected for February 2022).
Not a single vote for United Russia! RSM statement on the Duma elections & Mikhail Lobanov’s candidacy
27 July 2021, by“The September 19 Russian State Duma elections will be very different from previous ones. On the one hand, they will take place against a background of a rapid decline in living standards, the dire consequences of the pandemic, and the extremely unpopular pension reform passed three years ago.”
Democratic Socialists of America Faces Challenges at Convention
26 July 2021, by“Most DSA members show little interest in international issues, yet they are likely to be the most contentious issue at this year’s convention.”
Erdogan’s violent equilbrium
25 July 2021, by“It would seem that the Western clan, who need Ankara on their side […], will not force Erdogan too much on the democratic question as long as he makes a pledge of allegiance and shows himself to be ‘cooperative’.”
KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are burning, we need to build a just peace
24 July 2021, by“We repeat that people are not interested in Zuma’s arrest. It is the fact that they have been unemployed and hungry for too long that has created this crisis.”
On the Chinese regime
23 July 2021, by“There is nothing communist about the Chinese model, which is run by billionaires.”
