To mark the sixth anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian revolution we are publishing this interview with Joseph Daher, Syrian-Swiss activist and founder of the blog “Syria Freedom Forever“ conducted by Jerome McDnnel of Worldview.
“Feminists are currently leading the way”
15 March 2017, by ,“I think that the feminist movement should try to reach out to wide social sectors and to act as a leading force toward a rebirth of broad social movements. Of course, this will also depend on the capacity of the left to overcome sexist prejudices that still remain. If the left, on an international level, will not understand that feminists are currently leading the way and will not valorize this fact and transform itself accordingly, it will do a serious disservice to itself and to the working class as a whole.”
In the Netherlands and Turkey: solidarity and resistance to the right-wing campaigns
14 March 2017, by ,This joint statement on the Dutch government’s ban on Turkish ministers holding meetings in the Netherlands and what is at stake in this conflict was issued by the Turkish and Dutch sections of the Fourth International on 14 March 2017.
“Ecosocialism is more than a strategy, it’s a project for Civilization”
13 March 2017, by ,Alexandre Araujo Costa, a Brazilian ecology activist, spoke to Belgian ecology writer and activist Daniel Tanuro on a range of questions concerning ecology and ecosocialism.
Power in Podemos
12 March 2017, byPodemos’s second congress reaffirmed Pablo Iglesias’s power. But there were also openings for a more democratic, left party.
Maghreb: elements of a debate on the situation.
11 March 2017, by1. The Maghreb region - Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia - is traversed by social movements of revolutionary scope, at uneven rhythms. The most representative and advanced example of this revolutionary dynamic is obviously the movement unleashed by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia in 2011. This today constitutes a model reference in the eyes of the movements and protests of the region. Ten years previously, in 2001, Algeria experienced the same type of protest movement, with the same breadth and a higher level of organisation, but without leading to any political change in the structure of the regime. The movement was to some degree marginalized by its territorial confinement to Kabylie and its identity-based and cultural connotations linked to its specificity in the political history of the country. Nonetheless the social and democratic dimensions profoundly structured the movement (Mohamed Guermah, known as Massinissa, died on April 20, 2001, after having been wounded by sub-machine gun fire; his death unleashed a vast revolt).
The Netherlands lurches towards elections: Islamophobia, austerity and crisis of the left
10 March 2017, byOn March 15, there will be general elections in the Netherlands - and it seems the country will not escape the trend of a rising radical-right and the crisis of the centre-left. But left-wing political parties as well are having difficulties, and social movements are struggling to find their way. A radicalising far-right with a virulent Islamophobia at its core has succeeded in altering the political and social landscape.
It is no use denying that for the Left, the situation is bleak. How did we get here?
On global turmoil, the regime crisis and Podemos
9 March 2017, byThis comment on the general situation and after the Podemos Congress “Vistalegre 2” was written for the magazine Viento Sur and published on 21 February.
How Was the March 8 International Women’s Strike Woven Together?
8 March 2017, byLast October 19, the call for a women’s strike to protest the femicide of sixteen year old LucÃa Pérez, who was stabbed to death, connected male violence with forms of labor, economic, social, and territorial violence and precarization, and denounced them as a new “pedagogy of cruelty” on women’s bodies (in a scene with undeniable colonial echoes).