The 34th International Youth Camp in political solidarity with the Fourth International took place in Otranto, Italy in the last week of July. The camp, under a banner proclaiming "Revolution Addicted - 1917-2017", was opened by a rally with speakers from Italy welcoming the participants and explaining the political goals of the camp. The rally concluded with this contribution from a leading young woman comrade from the Anticapitalistas delegation of the Spanish state.
Solidarity with Activists and Victims in Charlottesville
15 August 2017, byWe express our deepest sympathy and solidarity with the brave protestors—including comrades in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and International Socialist Organization (ISO)—who fell victim to an act of white supremacist terror in Charlottesville, VA this weekend. We are heartbroken and angry to learn of the murder of Heather Heyer, and more determined than ever to continue fighting.
On the Russian Revolution of October 1917
15 August 2017, byThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was an unprecedented event in the history of the human species.
Making no concessions to the Palestinian people’s rights
14 August 2017Written upon the initiative of Media Palestine, this collective piece was produced in reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s commemoration of the Vel d’Hiv round-up and first published in Mediapart. The authors denounce the position taken by the French president: "Macron is here following in the footsteps of all those who want to criminalise the struggles fighting for justice in Palestine and for Palestinians’ rights." [1]
U.S. Workers in the Late Neoliberal Era
13 August 2017, byCapitalism in the United States and across the world has gone through a series of mind-bending crises, spatial “fixes,” and continuous restructurings that have disoriented organized labor in most of the developed economies since the beginning of the neoliberal era in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
USAID in El Salvador: The Politics of Prevention
11 August 2017, byThe U.S. agency for International Development (USAID) frames its work in El Salvador in the sterile, technocratic language of neoliberalism. The Agency is devoted to fostering “prosperity, security and good governance” in the small Central American nation. Notions of non-partisanship and apolitical, post-ideological action are key to this discourse.
The last time the US launched ’fire and fury’ on North Korea, a third of the population died
10 August 2017, byNumerous commentators in the US and elsewhere have poured cold water on the idea there could be a short term war.
“Successful Convention Moves DSA to Left”
9 August 2017, byThe socialist movement in the United States took a big step forward this past weekend as almost 700 delegates representing over 25,000 members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) met at the organization’sbiennial national convention in Chicago. This convention, the first since DSA more than tripled in size following last year’s election, brought together delegates from all of the country’s major cities and many towns large and small.
Podemos-PSOE agreement: a historic error!
8 August 2017, by ,The Cortès of Castilla-La Mancha (CLM) has three parliamentary groups: that of the PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), with 15 deputies, that of the PP (Partido Popular) with 16 and that of Podemos with 2. Podemos’s support is indispensable for the adoption of the budget or of any law if the PP is opposed. The two Podemos deputies are the regional secretary José GarcÃa Molina, favourable to entry into government and David Llorente, a member of the Anticapitalistas current of Podemos, who opposes such an entry.
The Future of Greece
7 August 2017, by ,Syriza continues to oversee the implementation of austerity. But all is not hopeless in Greece.
Footnotes
[1] Another reaction to Macron’s speech is published here: An Open Letter to Emmanuel Macron.