What a time of powerful conflicting emotions in the United States last week as we dealt with COVID, abortion rights, and a white nationalist’s mass murder.
High tensions and fragile peace in Ethiopia
15 May, by“The Ethiopian government is proposing national conciliation after more than 18 months of a war that has torn the country apart. While the country is experiencing a precarious calm, important issues remain unresolved.”
Report: International conference of European Solidarity with Ukraine
14 May, by“We talk a lot in the labour movement about international solidarity and mutual aid. If any of that is real and sincere, we need to act on it now. The Ukrainian left is in a life or death struggle.”
Learning Solidarity Together
13 May, by ,Right now, our international solidarity must be based on the payment of reparations to benefit Ukraine. […] It is also important to clarify that, first and foremost, reparations should be paid by the rich: officials, the nomenklatura, oligarchs, businessmen, etc.
Why should Ukraine’s debt be cancelled?
12 May, by“But, while the international press focuses precisely on the Russian oligarchs, there is no reason for the CADTM to consider that the Ukrainian oligarchs are allies of the Ukrainian people. The class struggle during the war continues.”
A new electoral union on the French left
11 May, by“So, the limited but real risk that the left will become the main opposition to Macron and could even deprive him of a majority really frightens the presidential majority.”
From Managed Democracy to Fascism: Putin’s Imposition of Obedience and Order on Russian Society
10 May, byIn the aftermath of its invasion of Ukraine, Ilya Budraitskis describes Russia as evolving to a new form of fascism. What had been a “managed democracy” with limited personal freedoms, has become a society and polity which requires unequivocal acceptance of the Ukraine invasion and treats any sign of deviation as treason. The article first appeared in German in Die Wochenzeitung, under the title, “Gruseliges Vorzeichen einer möglichen Zukunft.”
Pogromists in power in India
9 May, by“These spectacular shows of force by the Hindu far right are a way of conditioning the Indian population to accept the bigger massacres still in preparation.”
New Frontal Attack on Abortion
8 May, by“But the only effective way to fight back is to continue mass actions and to make them more powerful.”
Faced with popular hostility Macron imposed his re-election
7 May, by“The political polarization of recent weeks raises questions that go beyond the June deadline, in the continuation of the social struggles of recent years.”
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