“President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela is claiming the territory of the oil-rich Essequibo region of neighboring Guyana, a claim recently backed by a referendum.”
Shock policy and mano dura in Argentina
20 December 2023, byWe need to build concrete solidarity with our Argentine comrades and learn the lessons we can use to confront our extreme right.
Immigration at Center of Political Debate—and Biden Turns Right
19 December 2023, by“Biden is taking this new more conservative position hoping to pass his Ukraine and Israel funding bill, but progressive Democrats, human rights and immigrant rights activists, and the left are furious over these proposed changes.”
Fossil takeover of the COPs
18 December 2023, byThe presidency of COP28 by the boss of the Emirati oil company (ADNOC, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ) is not an accident, attributable solely to the rotation of countries hosting climate conferences. It reflects a tactical repositioning of the main producers of fossil fuels, oil and gas in particular.
European trade union demonstration: International class solidarity is the only answer!
17 December 2023, bySeveral thousand trade unionists and activists marched through the streets of Brussels on 12 December, as European finance ministers met to review budgetary rules.
What solution in Palestine?
16 December 2023, by“From an internationalist point of view, any progressive solution to the question of Palestine requires recognition of the right to national self-determination of the Palestinian people, the right of refugees to reintegrate their homeland and to integrate the latter into a regional socialist federal framework.”
Divide and rule - policing London pro-Palestine demonstrations
15 December 2023, by“What they must be objecting to about our visible, noisy Jewish bloc is that we are demolishing that flimsy narrative. On every protest, more and more Jewish people, devastated at Netanyahu’s relentless criminal actions in Gaza, are gaining the confidence to join us. ”
The British "Rwanda plan": a government caught in its own racist trap
14 December 2023, by“In trying to put into practice the anti-immigration rhetoric heard since the 2016 referendum campaign, the Tory government is now torn between its extreme right, which is determined to push ever more violent measures, and its pro-business wing, which is aware of the imperative need for the British labour market to welcome the workforce that is in short supply in entire sectors of the economy.”
Anger and mobilization grow in Peru
13 December 2023, by“Let’s be the ones who decide the future of Peru by promoting a Constituent Assembly to bury the Fujimori constitution that surrenders and corrupts.”