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On Sunday 14 March 2021, after 65 days, the 63-year-old political prisoner, Dimitris Koufodinas, stopped the hunger strike he had started on 8 January. Since 16 February, he had been in the intensive care unit of Lamia Hospital, with either a serious threat of irreversible damage to his health (...)
The danger to see the first victim of hunger strike in Europe on 21th century is ante portas.
“Storming Heaven”, artwork by painter and Street artist Sonke Wia, made especially for D. Koufodinas
Dimitris Koufodinas is serving 11 times life sentence plus 25 years after he was convicted as a (...)
This urgent motion was adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International on 23 February 2021.
The International Committee of the Fourth International urgently demands the fulfilment of the just demands of the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger- (...)
Over the last four nights we have seen big demonstrations and also some pitched battles between mostly young protesters and the police of the Spanish State.
They are outraged at yet another attack on democratic rights and free speech. Pablo Hasel (Pablo Rivadulla Duro, 32 years old) is a (...)
The process of constructing Anti-Capitalist Resistance has taken a significant step forward. Ian Parker was there.
The two-day online event took place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January, bringing together revolutionary Marxists from England and Wales, and visitors from elsewhere. This is one (...)
In the late 2000s the Dutch Socialist Party was a success story, having risen from a small Maoist group into a 50,000-member party. But a split with its youth wing and talk of a coalition with right-wingers have demoralized activists — and shown the dangers of a parliamentary party becoming (...)
Dimitris Koufodinas is serving 11 times life sentence plus 25 years after he was convicted as a member of the “Revolutionary Organization November 17th” (17N). The 17N was active in Greece from 1975 to 2002 when it was dismantled after a failed attack. It first appeared with the shooting of the (...)
Sylvana Simons’ party will stand in the 2021 Dutch general election. ‘We’re activating people who’ve never felt politicians speaking to them.’ #12DaysofResistance
“The Dutch have perfected their facade. They are the definition of ‘facade!’” Sylvana Simons tells me, laughing, on a video call from her (...)
On 13 December as part of the “Subversive Festival” in Zagreb, two European zoom-panels were organised presenting the two texts translated into Croatian produced by the network Recommons Europe (see https://www.cadtm.org/ReCommonsEurope-Manifesto-for-a-New-Popular-Internationalism-in-Europe and (...)
Forward Andalusia leader Teresa Rodríguez.
Maribel Mora, representing the radical left coalition Forward Andalusia on the Andalusian parliament’s speakership board, got a nasty surprise on October 27.
Minutes before the board was due to meet in Seville, fellow Forward Andalusia MP Inmaculada (...)
All principled socialists should join the newly forming A*CR, argue Neil Faulkner and Simon Hannah. Here’s why.
We have taken a small step forwards in the attempt to realign the Left. At the weekend, around 70 people joined the Ecosocialism or Disaster Capitalism event organised by (...)
The creation of Podemos in the Spanish state was an important attempt to build an anti-neoliberal and pluralist mass party to the left of social-liberalism. That experience, which started very well, has finally ended very badly. Perhaps, for this reason, the title of this article could have (...)
Last weekend’s Croatian election saw a fresh step forward for the Green-Left coalition, with the Workers’ Front electing Katarina Peović as its first MP. She told Jacobin how activists in the former Yugoslav republic are building the fight for democratic socialism.
The results of the Croatian (...)
On 14 May 2020, Anticapitalistas, a founding component of Podemos and historical current of the radical left in the Spanish state linked to the Fourth International, announced its departure from Podemos. In reality, this decision was taken on 28 March when, in an internal consultation process (...)
The demonstration called in Turin, in solidarity with the African Americans in revolt over the murder of George Floyd, seemed to be one of those routine solidarity actions which we do because we feel we have to, but too often do not really have much of an impact with local people.
Black Lives (...)
On 28 March, an internal voting process ended in which Anticapitalistas decided to leave Podemos. Seventy-nine per cent of the membership participated; of these 89 per cent voted in favour, 3 per cent against and 7.5 per cent abstained. We decided to wait until today to make this decision (...)
The following statement is from Anticapitalistas, an organization of revolutionary socialists who helped initiate the Podemos political party in the Spanish state. Over the past six years, Anticapitalistas has maintained a rocky but constructive relationship with Podemos’ central leaders, (...)
“It’s not pretty, it’s not beautiful, but among those of us who defend social justice it’s not goodbye, it’s au revoir.” With these words, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias conveyed this Wednesday in a video broadcast with Teresa Rodríguez a feeling that underlies Rodríguez’ departure from the Andalusian (...)
“What is missing in this budget is not just the willingness to negotiate, which the government demonstrated very late. It lacks answers and a strategy for today’s problems”, said Catarina Martins, in her speech in the 2020 budget debate.
The Coordinator of the Left Bloc, in her speech in the (...)
From Syriza’s betrayal to the normalisation of austerity across Europe, it’s been a series of harsh lessons for progressive forces.
The financial crisis defined the European decade. It was the child of neoliberal policies, sketched by economists like Milton Friedmanand rolled out by leaders like (...)
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