Francisco Louca, who leads the Lisbon Left Bloc slate, outlines how the militant left would approach a new SP-led government.
Appeal to Defend Threatened Filipino Activists
3 February 2005Many personalities at the World Social Forum signed an appeal to defend Walden Bello, Lidy Nacpil and others threatened by the CPP’s assination threats. The meeting of radical parties at the ESF made a similar call.
The United Left...Divided
3 February 2005, byThe last Federal Assembly of the United Left revealed an organisation deeply divided on its attitude to the PSOE government of Zapateros.
A new Letter of Concern
2 February 2005, byIn the December 7, 2004 issue of its central publication, Ang Bayan, the CPP published a ‘diagram’ of Filipino ‘counterrevolutionary groups’ and their supposed international links. In another situation, or in another country, we could dismiss such a publication as a usual expression of ultra-sectarianism with limited implications. Unfortunately, this is not the case here. It announces a new stage in the CPP’s policy of threats and assassinations.
IV364 - February 2005 PDF
1 February 2005Download a pdf version of this month’s edition from here.
Fighting for Marxism in Syria
1 February 2005, byReleased after sixteen years in prison, Monif Mulhem threw himself into the construction of a global justice movement in Syria. After some successful social forums, the Syrian authorities banned them. Today, Monif continues political activity in a tense situation. IV spoke to him in his small apartment in Damascus.
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