Women in Black of Madrid remember the Cassandras of the Great War:
An update on the government-MILF peace process
19 July 2014, byExactly a year ago today (July 13, 2013), the GPH and the MILF peace panels had concluded the 30th exploratory talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the result and content of which had become one of the main points of the 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Benigno S. Aquino when he announced to the nation the positive developments of the peace process between the two panels.
Freedom, a common destiny for Gaza, Yarmouk and the Golan
18 July 2014The Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which started 10 days ago and caused the death of more than 200 Palestinians, including 80 percent of them civilians and about 20 percent of them children, reminds us of the reactionary and agressive nature of the Zionist State: an entity that is guilty of occupation, colonization and Apartheid.
Brazil: Death of PlÃnio de Arruda Sampaio
17 July 2014, byOn July 8, 2014 PlÃnio de Arruda Sampaio, one of the principal militants of the Christian socialist left in Brazil, died in Sao Paulo at the age of 84.
Bureaucracy, Ernest Mandel legacy and the Danish Red-Green Alliance
17 July 2014, byIn the 1960’s Ernest Mandel analysed the bureaucracy of the labour movement. 50 years later his thoughts are introduced into the debates about the Danish Red Green Alliance. A growing number of party full-timers make it relevant.
Saving the PSOE
16 July 2014, byA spectre is haunting the Spanish political system, the spectre of the collapse of the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español – Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) . A spectre which inspires fear in those at the top and hope in those at the bottom. As unimaginable as it is possible. As much wished for by some as feared by others.
Descent Into Butchery: Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza
15 July 2014, byThere should never have been any doubt that another Israeli assault on Gaza would occur, with the inevitable accompanying mass atrocities. That’s not necessarily because it serves anyone’s strategic interests—but simply because Israel’s brutalities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the strangulation of Gaza by Israel, the new military-dominated regime in Egypt, and the latest collapse of the absurd “peace process” exercise would inevitably produce a triggering event one way or another. [1]
Magnificent success of the PTB-Left Opening lists
11 July 2014, byBefore May 25, there were no elected representatives of what is called the "radical" left in Belgium, unlike in other countries in Europe. This anomaly has now been corrected. The PTB-GO! [2] lists are in fact sending two members to the Belgian federal Chamber of Deputies (Raoul Hedebouw in Liège and Marco Van Hees in Hainaut), two to the Walloon Parliament (including the steelworker Frédéric Gillot) and four to the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital region. Apart from Vincent Decroly and Bernard Wesphael, who were elected for the Ecolo party but who continued to sit after resigning from their party (one on the feral level federal and the other in the Walloon Region), there had been no member of parliament to the left of the Socialists (PS) and the Greens since the early 1980s ...
Declaration of the Central Committee of OKDE-Spartakos on the electoral result and the political situation
11 July 2014, byThis statement by the Central Committee of OKDE-SPARTAKOS,
was issued on 31 May 2014.
Statement of Syrian, Iraqi and Lebanese Intellectuals Against Religious Tyranny
8 July 2014Writers, journalists, academics, artists and intellectuals warn of the depth of the gap which these religious and political movements drive our societies and peoples to
Footnotes
[1] See photographs from the bombing on the Guardian website http://www.theguardian.com/world/ga...
[2] The PTB, Belgian Workers’ Party, PvdA in Flemish, is a party of Maoist origin, and by far the strongest force to the left of social democracy in Belgium. For these elections it opened up its lists to other forces under the name PTB-GO! (PTB-Left Opening).