Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Movements
Paris, 11 December 2015
Seemingly out of the blue (or rather, out of the black smog of the UNFCCC process), some of the largest historical culprits for climate change, countries including the United States, Canada and the European Union, have decided to back an “ambitious goal” of limiting (...)
, by Global Ecosocialist Network
COP 28 will take place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.
Image: Ivan Radic
Back in May, the World Meteorological Organization reported there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027. On November 21, only nine (...)
, by Fourth International
Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International adopted on 25 October 2023.
Copyright. Demonstration in Liège. © Fourth International
1. The contradictions of the global capitalism continue to bring forth brutal wars and occupation. Threatened by economic and political (...)
, by SMITH Ashley, TOUSSAINT Éric
Activists in the global movement for debt abolition are gearing up to mobilize in Marrakesh, Morocco, where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are holding their annual meeting October 9-15, despite the devastating earthquake that laid waste last month to whole sections of the (...)
, by ATTAC-CADTM Maroc
For the second time since they were founded, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are holding their annual meetings in Africa. They will take place from 9 to 15 October in Marrakech, Morocco. Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of their founding. We are saying: 79 (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ANDRÉS Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO) has now been in power for five years, long enough to assess the successes and failures of his administration and to look toward the future. AMLO was elected to his six-year term in 2018 by a landslide, with 54.71% of the vote while his (...)
, by BROWN Becky
This summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement. Becky Brown reports.
This year the 4th International youth camp was held in Vieure, central France, from 23-29 July. 200 youth from across Europe came together to better understand how their (...)
, by TRAVERSO Enzo
Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.
This year marks the centenary of the (...)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of (...)
, by COOMARASWAMY Radhika
When I was given Kate Cronin-Furman’s book Hypocrisy and Human Rights to review, I imagined a different kind of book. International law scholarship is now flooded with literature that posits human rights as the big lie. Seen as a product of the European Enlightenment and the handmaiden of (...)
, by PARKER Ian
Ian Parker reviews a new book about the work of Ernest Mandel.
Manuel Kellner, a Fourth Internationalist comrade in Germany, had the good fortune to be able to write his doctoral thesis on the work of the Belgian Trotskyist activist and theoretician Ernest Mandel. Now here it is: Against (...)
, by APMDD
An Open Letter to the Governments of the Group of Seven States on the occasion of their 49th Summit, Hiroshima, Japan
Excellencies,
As you, leaders of seven of the world’s richest countries convene for your 49th summit, many Asian countries of the Global South are gripped more tightly (...)
, by LEE Eric
I’ve just come back from an international conference that could not have happened thirty years ago. And it’s a conference that might also prove impossible to hold in just a few short years.
LabourStart’s Global Solidarity Conference on the theme of “trade union internationalism today” was (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
Socialist scholar and activist Ernest Mandel was born one hundred years ago, on April 5, 1923. A ’Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent’, he was a militant and scholar, writing some of the most significant works of Marxist theory of the second half of the twentieth century.
Mandel was (...)
Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.
Belgian economist and radical thinker Ernest (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
Born on this day a century ago, Ernest Mandel was one of the major political thinkers of his age. From his teenage activism in the anti-Nazi resistance to his final days, Mandel was an uncompromising defender of socialist ideals and working-class interests.
he Belgian socialist intellectual (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway reports on a conference he participated in last Saturday in Rome.
On April 1, there were hundreds of us in the modern auditorium of the central Roman national library. It may have looked like an academic conference of mostly senior researchers and professors with a sprinkle of (...)
If it had been a film, it could have been said that the conference dedicated to Livio Maitan, on the centenary of the birth of the Venetian revolutionary Marxist intellectual and leader who died in Rome in 2004, was a success with both the public and critics.
“Looking to the future” was the (...)
, by Internationalist Standpoint
The feminist movement has been growing worldwide over the last few years; it is trying to “reclaim” March 8th from the bourgeois forces that try to turn it into a “holiday”, where men give roses to women and relieve them of household chores for a day.
So, on March 8 this year, millions of (...)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
In March 2023 women’s movements are playing a leading role in many countries around the world. This is neither new nor exceptional, but it should always be emphasized to show how women’s struggles are an integral part of the struggle to change, to revolutionize society, and that without (...)
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