IV581 - June 2023

A text signed by NPA spokespersons Olivier Besancenot, Christine Poupin, Philippe Poutou and Pauline Salingue.

“During the Biden-Modi news conference, the chants of protestors could be heard, but both ignored them. Modi insisted there was no discrimination in India and argued that democracy is in India’s DNA.”

Threats to the rights of women and LGBTI people, gifts to employers, the dismantling of public services and the denial of the right to health: the current period is a source of great concern both for gender minorities and for the Italian proletariat as a whole.

“While the consequences of these events are difficult to predict, it’s already clear that they have forever changed Putin’s political system. If this attempted military insurgency was so successful, why can’t this example inspire future attempts to build on its success? ”

“The most important question at this moment is: Can this struggle in the Russian elite lead to the collapse of Putin and the oligarchy and could it make it possible for the Russian people to rise up and overthrow them all.” [24 June 2023]

“This is a major crisis of the globalized capitalist system, the worst crisis since those of the years 1914-1945.”

“The rich get a rescue mission, the poor get nothing.”

“The fact of the matter is that poverty and an utter lack of hope drives young people to hand over their parents’ life savings to human traffickers and hop on overcrowded boats leaving the Libyan coast in the dead of night.”

“Defending trans rights is a matter of reproductive justice (RJ).”

“Now is the time to unite these struggles and build an alternative. We are aware of the intention of the right and extreme right to unite to achieve power and of the need to combat this danger.”