IV362 - December 2004

The centrality of the Palestinian question is explained by the fact that more than any other conflict on our planet, it concentrates the stakes of the global war launched by the Bush administration and its allies.

To understand what happened at the US presidential elections of November 2, 2004, you have to think of the United States as a kind of Christian Iran, only with actual and not hypothetical nuclear weapons.

We print here a “letter from the editors” of the magazine Against the Current, published by the US socialist organization Solidarity.

The 3rd Social Forum took place this year from 15th to 17th October in London. It underlined once again the vitality of the global justice movement and its strengthened links with the trade-union movement.

Among the various plenaries, seminars and working groups at the European Social Forum was a discussion - ‘Strategies for Social Transformation’.

Transcript of a speech in the debate on ‘Strategies for Social Transformation’, at the European Social Forum, October 16, 2004.

Flavia d’Angeli made the following contribution in the opening session of the discussion for the PRC congress scheduled for March 2005

Through the autumn Holland has been swept by a wave of industrial action in response to planned government welfare reforms. The mass struggle against social cuts has already deeply influenced the debate on the left.

We publish here a contribution by François Sabado, member of the Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR, French section of the Fourth International), and of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International. (subtitles by IV)

From the 25th to 31st July, the 21st youth camp of the Fourth International took place in Ruesta in the province of Aragon in the Spanish State.