A few days after the public announcement [on 17 January] that an agreement had been reached between the Mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, and à ñigo Errejón around the platform Más Madrid for the forthcoming municipal elections, as well as the scathing response from Pablo Iglesias (not to mention that of his organisational secretary, Pablo Echenique), it is evident that the Podemos we have known over the last five years has come to an end.
Why work-to-rule is a mobilising act on Ukraine’s railways
11 April 2019, byIn May 2018, Ukraine’s railway workers took an unprecedented stand against deathtrap conditions. Six months on, I went to found out what’s changed.
With new position on secularism, Quebec Solidaire redefines left-wing politics in the province
9 April 2019, byParty seeks to reclaim secularism from conservative political trends in Quebec
On the Deir Yassin Massacre Anniversary
8 April 2019, byThe Israeli election on April 9, 2019 will coincide with the anniversary of the massacre of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, a turning point in the mass flight of Palestinians during the 1948 war (the Nakba, or catastrophe). According to establishment historiography, this massacre was carried out by the extreme rightwing Irgun militia — the military arm of the party that gave rise to today’s governing Likud — but the truth is more complicated to say the least.
Outsourcing Exploitation to Europe’s Periphery
6 April 2019, byMost people probably associate outsourcing and subcontracting, whereby a company pays another company (usually in a country where wages and labour standards are significantly lower) to produce its goods which it then resells for a profit, with the clothing and electronics factories of China and Southeast Asia. While “Made in Korea” and even “Made in Japan” were once synonymous with cheap, mass-produced goods in the West in the 1960s and 1970s, today “Made in China” or “Made in Bangladesh” stand for low wages, cheap goods, and hyper-exploitation along the global value chain. Whether basketball jerseys, DVD players, or laptop computers, the disposable consumer lifestyle prevalent across the industrialized world is made possible by externalizing production costs onto poorly paid workers in the global periphery.
Mexico: a victorious general strike in 92 maquiladoras
5 April 2019, byLong live the victorious strikes of Matamoros!
For a sovereign constituent assembly, the struggle continues!
4 April 2019, byWorkers, young people, women and the popular masses as a whole have just snatched, after more than 40 days of strikes and unprecedented mass demonstrations, a precious and historic first victory by forcing the departure on 2 April 2019 of Bouteflika – the embodiment of an oligarchic, authoritarian, quasi-monarchical liberal regime subject to the interests of imperialist foreign powers.
Système dégage!
3 April 2019, bySurprise after surprise in Algeria: President Bouteflika appointed the general who wanted to remove him as minister, before announcing his own resignation on 2 April 2019. Kamel Aïssat, an activist in the Parti socialiste des travailleurs (Socialist Workers’ Party, Algerian section of the Fourth International), explained the situation to Sam Wahch and Antoine Larrache of the NPA newspaperl l’Anticapitaliste on 1 April 2019.
Those who are fighting back are in danger
3 April 2019, by ,Brazilian feminist activist Taliria Petrone talks to Sebastien Brulez about the struggle today against the reactionary government of Jair Bolsonaro and the political assassination of her comrade Marielle Franco last year