This election epitomises something that has been talked about for some time – the increasing distance between politics , specifically the apparatuses that have taken turns in governing Italy over the last twenty-five years – and society. This time the prize for being out of synch with reality and misunderstanding has to go to Renzi’s PD.
Stop the repression in Mexico
22 June 2016This statement was agreed by the Bureau of the Fourth International on June 20 2016.
AKP government’s permenant war against women
22 June 2016, byThe AKP government is waging a bloody war against women in Turkey. All forms of violence against women increased by a rate of 1400% since they came to power in 2002. At least three women are killed in a day (5406 women were killed between 2002 and 2015) mostly by their husbands or ex-husbands for seeking divorce. The AKP government have done nothing against femicide and violence but promulgated laws that strengthen the family, obsruct divorce and weaken women. The judiciary, which is totally under the control of the AKP government, supports killing of women with impunity.
A setback for Renzi
21 June 2016, byThe second round of Italy’s municipal elections on June 19, 2016 represented a heavy defeat for the governing party, the Partito Democratico (Democratic Party - PD), and its leader Matteo Renzi. The Movimento 5 Stelle (Five Star Movement - M5S) won in two of the country’s biggest cities, Rome, the capital, and Turin, Italy’s largest industrial city. The M5S candidate in Rome, Virginia Raggi, obtained an overwhelming victory, gaining 300,000 votes more than she had in the first round by capitalizing on opposition to the PD candidate, Roberto Giachetti and his sponsor Renzi, realizing very high scores in the popular districts.
How the "bathroom bills" feed bigotry
21 June 2016, by ,They mouth support for the victims in Orlando, but weeks earlier, many political leaders were backing anti-LGBTQ legislation.
Protest the sentence of Baba Jan and the other activists
20 June 2016, byThe decision of Gilgit Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court on June 9 to overturn Chief Court’s acquittal of Baba Jan and 11 other Awami Workers Party activists is politically motivated. It does not meet the standards of impartiality and fairness. “If highlighting this shortcoming of the short order is tantamount to contempt of court, I am in contempt of court,” AWP Pakistan president Abid Hassan Minto said on June 16, speaking at a press conference held to announce a mass campaign for the immediate release of Baba Jan and other activists’ and the cancellation of all politically motivated cases registered against them on trumped up charges of terrorism.
Life After Bernie: People’s Summit Searches for the Movement’s Political Future
19 June 2016, byThe mood among the 3,000 Bernie Sanders supporters meeting in Chicago McCormick Place was improbably optimistic this past weekend, with many of the speakers proclaiming to cheering crowds that the movement has been victorious—even though Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party has received a majority of the popular votes and a majority of elected delegates and super-delegates, as well as the endorsements of President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
After the killings in Orlando: grief, anger and vigilance
19 June 2016This statement was made by the Bureau of the Fourth International at its meeting of 19th June 2016.
Venezuelan socialists say: "We won’t retreat in the face of threats"
19 June 2016Marea Socialista is a socialist organization in Venezuela which was part of the Bolivarian revolution led by Hugo Chávez from the beginning. It joined the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) when it was founded by Chávez in 2007, but left it last year in protest against its political direction under his successor as President, Nicolas Maduro.