“If there is any hope in turning this dire situation into revolutionary momentum, it will be in Jamaicans making common cause with the Chinese laborers imported to the country.”
The social movement on hold in France
19 May 2023, by“Today the energy of local activists appears in the concerts of pots and pans and the welcoming committees for ministers, but this is not enough to give a new dynamic that could provide a general perspective of struggle to a social movement that is not exhausted.”
Hope shipwrecked: the opposition doesn’t triumph, the regime doesn’t collapse in Turkey
18 May 2023, by“In this nightmarish panorama a small (but significant) consolation is the result that the TIP achieved.”
Biden’s New Immigration Policy Will Keep Most Immigrants Out of U.S.
17 May 2023, by“Why do so many migrants seek to enter the United States? The history of U.S. imperialism could be called the principal driving force ”
The disappointing aftermath of the Turkish elections
16 May 2023, by"We knew that it wasn’t an easy election. We knew that it is would be difficult for the first round but we didn’t know that Erdoğan would get so many votes, especially in the earthquake areas.“
"The areas of the uprising were those that had suffered the most from the liberalization measures of the 2000s"
15 May 2023, by“Syria is a country on the periphery in relation to the centre of capitalist accumulation. Trotsky’s theory of uneven and combined development allows us to understand why forms of social organization that can be considered "archaic" or "primary", based on questions of tribe, religion, regionalism — which can also be found in Europe, but not necessarily as developed — are linked to the capitalist but also political development of this region.”
Imran Khan arrested, what next?
14 May 2023, by“The palace-intrigues between Pakistan’s political elite and military establishment have worsened the economic conditions in the country. Strengthening democratic forces would require a complete overhaul of the system including policies that favor the people.”
New fiscal framework: a barrier to building the Brazil that the people need
13 May 2023, by , ,“The underlying problems are hunger, unemployment and precariousness, inflation and the cost of rent and food, environmental destruction, global warming, deindustrialisation and a possible global economic crisis.”
Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing made clear that Israel’s war on Palestinian journalists is part of its war on Palestine
12 May 2023, by“Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen’s was one of them.”