The Founding Statement of the January 14th Front of Tunisia. fighting for an end to all the elements of the old regime and for the covening of a constituent assembly
Arabs and the Holocaust
6 March 2011, byDavid Finkel reviews The Arabs and the Holocaust : The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar, £25, Saqi, $30 Metropolitan for Against the Current
Towards a Queer Marxism?
6 March 2011, byPeter Drucker reviews Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, pages, $12 paperback and The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kevin Floyd Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 271 pages, $25 paperback for Against the Current
The very symbol of illegitimate debt
6 March 2011, byThe Greek public debt made the headlines when the country’s leaders accepted the austerity measures demanded by the IMF and the European Union, sparking very significant social struggles throughout 2010. But where does this Greek debt come from? As regards the debt incurred by the private sector, the increase has been recent: the first surge came about with the integration of Greece into the eurozone in 2001.
The New American Workers Movement at the Crossroads
5 March 2011, byThe new American workers movement, which has developed so rapidly in the last couple of months in the struggle against rightwing legislative proposals to abolish public employee unions, suddenly finds itself at a crossroads. Madison, Wisconsin, where rank-and-file workers, community members, and social movement activists converged to create the new movement, remains the center of the struggle. In Ohio, which faces similar legislation, unions have also gone into motion, while working people around the country have been drawn into the fight
Support the Libyan revolution!
3 March 2011, byThe shock waves of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions continue to spread throughout the Arab world and beyond. For several days, it has been Libya which is at the centre of the revolutionary upheaval.
Latin America and the Arab revolution: the bankruptcy of Chavism?
2 March 2011, byIn Europe, governments are trying to prevent contagion and solidarity between European workers and the Arab masses in revolt by brandishing the scarecrow of Islamism. In Latin America, it is the Venezuelan and Cuban progressive leaders themselves who are trying to isolate these rising revolutions by affirming the supposedly “anti-imperialist” character of the despotic Libyan, Syrian and Iranian regimes, which are also being destabilized by the rising wave of peoples in struggle.