“While the coup plotters in no way represent an alternative for Niger, the economic sanctions and threats of military intervention by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), backed by Macron, are a real danger for the population.”
Palestine: thirty years after Oslo, accords benefit Israel
9 September 2023, by“Thirty years on, the hopes raised by the Oslo Accords have been dashed. They point the way to what must not be done. There can be no “peace process” under occupation and colonization.”
Resisting Russian Imperialism: 2 Socialists—a Ukrainian and a Russian—on Ukraine’s Struggle for Self-Determination
8 September 2023, by , ,An interview with Hanna Perekhoda and Ilya Budraitskis.
In Greece, megaracists fan the flames of megafires
7 September 2023, by“Nerds who took armed action against refugees on the Turkish border in 2020, and who have since illegally set up huts and even villas in protected natural areas, played the role of sheriff (with videos of their exploits) by beating and arresting refugees, accusing them of setting fire to the forests, just as at least 20 of them were found burnt to death in the Dadia forest.”
Russia Policing and Repression Prisons The Persecution of Azat Miftakhov Is Designed to Silence Russia’s Left
6 September 2023, bySaturday 2 September was an international day of solidarity demanding the release of Azat Miftakhov, a mathematician and anarchist anti-fascist activist who is spending his fifth year in prison in Russia. He is accused of setting fire to an office of the ruling United Russia party in 2018. He is due to be released soon, having completed his sentence. However, he has just been declared a "terrorist" and therefore runs the risk of remaining imprisoned under any other pretext, especially as the wave of repression is now affecting the left opposed to the Kremlin.
AMLO’s Mexico: Fourth Transformation?
5 September 2023, by“AMLO is almost done and there has been no Fourth Transformation. AMLO failed to deal with Covid, to stop the drug violence, and to really lift up the poor, at the same time that he’s undermined democracy and militarized society.”
Report from the Fourth International’s Revolutionary Youth Camp
4 September 2023, byThis summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement.
Trump Faces Four Trials, Uses Charges Against Him to Fuel Campaign
3 September 2023, byFormer president Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign and his coming trials are driving the United States toward an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
Labour, protests, and state capitalism in Belarus, three years on
2 September 2023, byLast week, two labour activists from Naftan oil refinery were detained by Belarusian security service KGB on charges of undermining national security. The detained Volha Britikava and Aliaksandr Kukharonak have already spent short stints in jail for criticising Lukashenka’s government and participating in anti-government protests. They are among the latest victims of the ongoing repressions against labour organisations and activists who joined the country-wide protests three years ago, in (...)