The Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgian section of the Fourth International, is putting together its own list for the European elections on 9 June. After a long and difficult road and a campaign to gather signatures, the Belgian comrades are taking to the electoral field for the first time in ten years under the name Anticapitalists. - IV591 - April 2024 / Belgium ..read more

This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese “Carnation” Revolution that erupted in 1974 and was finally tamed in 1976 with the election of a government led by Soares from the Socialist Party(SP). The moderate SP consolidated many reforms won in the previous two years but also restored the capitalist order. - IV591 - April 2024 / Portugal, Historical events and figures ..read more

The controversy surrounding a historian's attempt to give a minute's monologue on the meaning of Italy's National Liberation Day, 25 April. - IV591 - April 2024 / Italy, Far Right ..read more

“They accused Switzerland, with evidence to back up their accusations, of failing to take care of their health and well-being in the face of increasingly worrying heatwaves, and of failing to take steps to achieve the target set for 2030 by the Paris Agreement in 2015.” - IV591 - April 2024 / Women, Climate, Switzerland ..read more

“Until now, the South has been a bastion of bosses, of non-union open shops, where workers had no vote and no voice in their workplaces. If this victory leads to others, as it is expected to, it will change completely the balance of forces between the corporations and the working class in America.” - IV591 - April 2024 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing ..read more

In an interview with Jacobin, Leonidas Iza, president of Ecuador's CONAIE (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador - Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), the country's main indigenous movement, discusses the government's repressive policy, militarization, and the expansion of drug trafficking while criticizing neoliberal policies and examining political debates within the indigenous movement and the left. The interview was conducted by Martín Mosquera and Iain Bruce. - IV591 - April 2024 / Ecuador ..read more

“Faced with the militarisation of the world, we need a global anti-war movement. It's easy to say, but hard to do. Can we rely on local cross-border solidarity (Ukraine-Russia, India-Pakistan) to achieve this? Or on the huge solidarity movement with Palestine? Or social forums like the one that has just taken place in Nepal?” - IV591 - April 2024 / World, Ecology and the Environment, War drive/Anti-war movements ..read more

“If I were to give some general advice, I would recommend paying less attention to which abstract position is correct, and focusing more on practical action to help us climb out of the hole we are in.” - IV591 - April 2024 / Ukraine ..read more

Philippe Poutou, a former candidate in the French presidential elections and spokesperson for France's Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste (NPA), will be in third place on the “Anticapitalistes” list put forward by Belgium's “Gauche anticapitaliste” (Anti-Capitalist Left) organisation in the European parliamentary elections on 9 June 2024. - IV591 - April 2024 / Belgium, France, European Union ..read more

Franco-Lebanese researcher Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, reviews the Israeli attack on April 1st against the consulate in Damascus and analyses the response of the Islamic Republic. He also examines the effects of this renewed tension on the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Gaza. [French original published by L'Humanité] * * * * * What was Israel seeking by striking the Iranian consulate in Damascus? The (...) - IV591 - April 2024 / Israel, Iran ..read more