The convergence of resistance to capitalist globalisation is giving birth to a new internationalism of social movements. The second ’Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference’ (APISC), held on March 29-April 1st of this year in Sydney, shows that this question is also an issue for militant political parties.
Power of the working class
12 September 2002, byThe South Korean workers’ movement played a very important role in the resistance to the military dictatorship, a stance for which it paid a heavy price. The dynamism of the KCTU trade union federation is partly attributable to this heritage. However, unlike in the Philippines for example, no militant political party was able to establish itself on a nationwide basis before the 1990s.
The Filipino revolutionary movement
12 September 2002, byFollowing the Second World War, the revolutionary process in south east Asia was long dominated by developments in Indonesia and Vietnam. However, after the bloody crushing of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in 1965 and a decade later the historic victory (although achieved in very difficult conditions) of the Vietnamese resistance, it was in the Philippines that the continuity of struggle was affirmed with the most constancy.
What future for the national liberation movement?
12 September 2002, by , ,After almost two years of confrontation, the Palestinian people have suffered a new defeat, with thousands of dead and wounded, thousands taken prisoner, an unprecedented degradation of its living standards and a deep dislocation of its social life.
The isle of discord
12 September 2002, byOn July 11, 2002 a small band of Moroccan troops occupied a rocky, uninhabited island in the Straits of Gibraltar, sparking a conflict with Spain. The island is known as Perejil (Parsley) by the Spanish and Leïla by Moroccans.
Coalition falls apart
12 September 2002, byA general election in Turkey seems likely in November, against a background of political and economic crisis. IV’s correspondent in Turkey, Erdal Tan, spoke to Masis Kürkçügil, a member of the leadership of the ÖDP on the origins of this crisis.
Hunger strike
12 September 2002, byRadhia Nasraoui, a human rights activist and a lawyer well known for defending prisoners of conscience in Tunisia, has been on hunger strike since June 26, 2002.
Rebellion in the rust belt
12 September 2002, byThe Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has joined the WTO (World Trade Organization), not without difficulty and after 15 years of determined effort by a regime which is described as post-Maoist but which is in fact anti-Maoist in its social and economic logic. The next congress of the CCP will be held in the autumn. It is supposed to draw a balance sheet of the Deng Xiaoping years and organize the succession, or the appearance of succession, to the direct heirs of Deng around Jiang Zemin.
Marx and Engels: Democratic revolutionaries
12 September 2002, byAugust Nimtz tells us his book’s three central themes are: 1 Marx and Engels "were the leading protagonists in the democratic movement in the nineteenth century"; 2 "they were first and foremost political activists, and not simply ’thinkers’"; 3 their practical political experience was central to shaping their theories.
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