IV574 - November 2022

“Supporting people protesting from below will not escalate the US-led imperial conflict with China. In fact, our popular solidarity across borders is the best way to dampen down tensions and build a common international struggle for justice, equality, and democracy, all of which are under threat from our rulers throughout the world.”

“There is today a real issue at stake of political polarization, of crystallization on class bases of discontent and of social struggles.”

“The movement today has made possible a considerable leap forward in the feminist consciousness of Iranian society, and whatever the outcome of the current confrontation, there will be no turning back.”

“Far from what we might have feared […] the struggles of the working class have not only resumed, but have spread and increased.”

Belgium is no exception to the wave of strikes in this hot European social autumn.

17 November 1973 is one of the key dates in contemporary Greek history and in the country’s political and social struggles: following the countless acts of resistance to the fascist regime of the colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974), hundreds of students occupied the Polytechnic University of Athens and popularised their action by calling for the fall of the colonels.

Faced with the promise of finally seeing his family on Thursday 17 November and after 7 months on hunger strike, Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian activist imprisoned since 2019, a figure of the 2011 revolution, decided to start eating again on 12 November.

“This huge strike, especially if it wins, could have a significant impact on other workers, in higher education and public employees.”

“The new military orientation advocated will, without a doubt, continue to be exercised against the peoples in struggle.”

“The crisis of the right may not last but will weaken the government in the face of social pressure from the street.“