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Lidia Cirillo
Lidia Cirillo has been a member of the Italian section of the Fourth International since 1966. Feminist activist and leading figures in the World March of Women in Italy, she also founded the Quaderni Viola (Purple notebooks, a feminist review). She is the author of several feminist works : Meglio Orfane (Better to be Orphans), Lettera alle Romane (Letter to Roman Women), and recently La Lune Severa Maestra (The Moon, a Strict Mistress) on the relationship between feminism and social movements.
IV400 - May 2008
| Right victorious
This interview with Lidia Cirillo of Sinistra Critica was carried out in the immediate aftermath of the Italian elections, which saw a substantial victory of the Berlusconi-led right wing coalition and the defeat of ’centre-left’. - read article...
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IV391 - July-August 2007
| Women
At the beginning of this year the Sinistra Critica (Critical Left) association in Italy had a discussion on drafting a feminist manifesto. While there are elements specific to Italy, the following notes on the discussions by Lydia Cirillo pose many important questions for the updating of a Marxist Feminist analysis. - read article...
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Theory
| A Journey with Livio
Lidia Cirillo reflects on nearly 40 years fighting for revolutionary marxism in Italy alongside Livio Maitan. She discusses the victories and defeats of the Italian Fourth International section, and the strengths of Maitan’s political vision which historically justified his work, even while he was apparently ’on the margins’. - read article...
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IV361 e-Supplement - Autumn 2004
| Obituary
Livio Maitan was a man of different times, but not for reasons of age. Rather, he was a man of different times because he was an organic intellectual - a rare breed that, while not entirely extinct, has precious few surviving members. - read article...
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News from the FI, the militant left and the social movements
 France
February 2010
The decision of the local NPA in the Vaucluse region in France to include a headscarf-wearing candidate on its list for the regional elections has caused a lot of debate in the French media. Here Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson of the NPA, corrects inaccurate reporting of his words. - read
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Fourth International
January 2010
Commemoration meetings for Daniel Bensaïd have taken place or will do so in Paris, Toulouse, Porto Alegre and London. - read
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Mauritius
December 2009
With US military activities growing fast in Africa, including the setting up of Africom, and with the new African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (known as the Pelindaba Treaty) now in force, the huge base on Diego Garcia becomes a key issue. - read
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 Pakistan
December 2009
Four LPP leaders died in a road accident yesterday in Baluchistan. They were coming back after meetings to organise home-based women workers. Three of them are shown in this photograph, taken at Khanis Pur Murree last year during a socialist school. - read
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Mexico
November 2009
Call for * Day for International Action in Embassies on December the 3rd. * To send International Delegations * To provide economic support - read article... |
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