“There is, however, an important role for left and socialist activism. This isn’t a moment for despair in the face of the social, political and natural emergencies confronting our society and our world, but a time to help build movements that will create their own new rules, not play by those of a dying order.”
The deadlocks of the left: health, pensions and employment
9 November 2021, by“After clearly setting out its negotiation proposals and demonstrating the government’s inflexibility, the Left Bloc has not given up on dialogue with the popular sectors of the left which leaned towards budget sustainability.”
Nicaragua, as Elections Approach
8 November 2021, by“We need to look to the country’s own civic organizations for leadership regarding how we, on the outside, may best help the Nicaraguan people achieve peace and equality.”
Kanaky: who’s causing trouble?
7 November 2021, by“So those who risk provoking future unrest are those, including the French government, who refuse to postpone the referendum to 2022.”
“You are the illness, We are the cure”
6 November 2021, by“Let’s hope the Cop 26 demonstrators take up the baton from their Rome comrades and bring even more people together. Let’s hope the Cop 26 demonstrators take up the baton from their Rome comrades and bring even more people together.”
Behind the coup in Sudan
5 November 2021, by“The coup d’état will be defeated above all by popular resistance. The general strike is being massively followed and despite the repression, the participation in the demonstrations is strong.”
When health is reduced to an individual choice
4 November 2021, by“In our view, it is not the responsibility of individuals but of the Confederation to implement an effective vaccination strategy.”
Blocking an Ecocidal Pipeline
3 November 2021, by ,Rebecca Kemble is a community activist and former member of the Madison, Wisconsin Common Council. This past summer she attended the blockade by Anishinaabe land protectors and allies against the construction of the new Enbridge Line 3 that cuts through their territory and threatens their treaty rights. Since then Enbridge has announced they have completed construction and are transporting tar sands oil. Meanwhile Indigenous protesters are still facing charges, and it was revealed that Enbridge has paid police $2.4 million for security. However, the protesters do not intend to end their opposition. Dianne Feeley interviewed her for ATC.
French trade unions after 5 October
2 November 2021, by“If we highlight the social movements, it is because they are the ones who organize the struggles, the direct action of the workers. Among these movements, trade unionism has an essential particularity: as we said earlier, it brings people together on the sole basis of belonging to the same social class. This is fundamental. A trade unionism of struggle of course, but also a trade unionism that dares to break with what exists in order to move forward.”