After de first round of the Presidential elections
, by AGUITON Christophe
After de first round of the Presidential elections
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, by VERSCHAVE François-Xavier
Text by François-Xavier VERSCHAVE, president of Survie from 1995 to 2005.
This brief summary is based on an article published in a special dossier of the review Mouvements (“Movements”, May 2002), “De la Françafrique à la mafiafrique” (“From Françafrique to mafiafrique”). My main works on (...)
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, by VERCAMMEN François
The third Conference of the European anti-capitalist left was held in Brussels on December 12-13, 2001.
It brought together parties, alliances and anti-capitalist movements from 10 countries, all committed in their respective countries to policies of regroupment and convergence.
This (...)
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, by SAMARY Catherine
How has foreign direct investment affected eastern Europe? Is stable capitalist enterprise being established?
ANY balance sheet of foreign investment in the countries of Eastern Europe, to be meaningful, must be prefaced by some comments and clarifications. Firstly, on the social (...)
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, by VERCAMMEN François
The attack on the United States by a terrorist organization of Islamic fundamentalist origin has shaken the planet: nowhere is safe any more, not even the USA. After all the other wildcat privatisations, states have now lost their monopoly control over the most destructive and pernicious (...)
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, by LÖWY Michael
The spirit of 68 is a powerful beverage, an intoxicating mixture, an explosive cocktail composed of various ingredients. One of those, and not the less important one, is revolutionary romanticism, a protest against the foundations of the modern industrial/capitalist civilization, its (...)
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, by DAVIDSON Neil
The Origins of Scottish Nationhood was an attempt to resolve two problems, one of history and the other of contemporary politics. The historical problem was the apparent failure of the Scottish nation to conform to the modernist conception of nationhood, in which national consciousness first (...)
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, by EACL
The third Conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left took place in Brussels, Belgium, on December 12-13, 2001. The participants in the conference were: the Red-Green Alliance (RGA, Denmark), the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), the Socialist Alliance (SA, England), the Socialist Workers (...)
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, by PATTIEU Sylvain
English Abstract
During the Algerian war, the Fourth International shaped the first network in order to help the National Liberation Front (FLN). The French section, headed by Pierre Frank, was the first one to support the FLN, considered to be the leader of the Algerian revolution, because (...)
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, by VERCAMMEN François
Those who leaf through the newspapers of the years 2000 and 2001 in 10 or 20 years time will not fail to be impressed by the intense debate on the construction of the European Union (EU) which has taken place over this period.
German foreign minister Joschka Fischer began it in May 2000, (...)
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, by DRUCKER Peter
Review of Max Shachtman et al., The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol. 1edited by Sean Matgamna. London: Phoenix Press, 1998, $14.99 paperback.
THE MAINSTREAM EXPLANATION of Stalinism is all too well known: The Bolsheviks were power-hungry conspirators whose (...)
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, by McGIFFEN Steve
An introduction to the book by its author, and Spectrezine editor, Steve McGiffen.
This book was written with two aims in mind: the first might be summed up as “know your enemy”. Quite simply, many people who rail against the EU don’t really know what they’re talking about. This doesn’t (...)
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, by VERCAMMEN François
Nervousness reigns in the highest European spheres as the Nice summit approaches. The Danish setback followed a series of failures: the fall of the Euro and the inability of Duisenburg and his cronies at the European Central Bank (ECB) to develop a coherent policy (from a bourgeois point of (...)
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, by SAMARY Catherine
A fundamental obstacle fell on October 5 for those who want to establish a genuine “left”. The whole day had been marked more by jubilation than by confrontations; the police presence ’guarding’ the Parliament or state television buildings was derisory - by comparison with what is seen in (...)
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, by ROUSSET Pierre
Contribution presented at the third Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) held, Seoul, Korea, 17-21.
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1. A turning point
In the coming years, the European Union (EU) will have a decisive choice to make in relation to nuclear energy. The first generation of reactors and power (...)
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, by RICHARDS Gareth Api
Presented at the Trade and Economy Forum: “The Impact of Neo Liberal Globalisation and the Struggles for People’s Alternatives”, ASEM 2000 People’s Forum , Seoul, 18-19 October 2000.
Introduction
For many authoritative commentators the worst of the East Asian economic crisis is over. (...)
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, by BENSAÏD Daniel
This year we commemorate the deaths of three leading figures of our movement. Daniel Bensaïd Marxist activist and philosopher, emerging from the May 1968 movement in France, who died too early in 2010 after a life as leader of the French section and the Fourth International. Ernest Mandel (...)
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, by European Commission
The ASEM Process
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, by LE BLANC Paul
IN THESE COMMENTS on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn’t clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position (...)
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, by SINGER Daniel
Since the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union, many on the left seem to have swallowed the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism. Debate has been limited to what can (or rather cannot) be achieved within its confines. Here is a powerful book with the opposite message: (...)
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