The present situation is quite contradictory. More than ever, the major issues our future depends on come up at once worldwide (climate change and environmental crisis, worldwide impact of capitalist globalisation, overall rise of discriminations and so on). However, the collective « spaces » (...)
Ashley Smith explains what’s at stake in a critical test for the international left.
THE SYRIAN Revolution has tested the left internationally by posing a blunt question: Which side are you on? Do you support the popular struggle against dictatorship and for democracy? Or are you with Bashar (...)
After Attacks on Muslims, Many Ask: Where Is the Outpouring?
PARIS — In recent days, jihadists killed 41 people at Istanbul’s bustling, shiny airport; 22 at a cafe in Bangladesh; and at least 250 celebrating the final days of Ramadan in Baghdad. Then the Islamic State attacked, again, with (...)
The world revolves around Palestine, or so I thought until 2011.
The Palestinian cause, I argued, was the litmus test for anyone’s commitment to freedom and justice. Palestine was the one and only compass that must guide any Arab revolution. Whether a regime is good or bad should be judged, (...)
Solidarity is not a one-way charity undertaking by privileged activists, but a multidimensional process that contributes to the emancipation of everyone involved.
A German man is not impressed with the grassroots democracy project in Rojava because he has seen something similar decades ago in (...)
For a long time now we have learned to be wary of “humanitarian” imperialist interventions. Denouncing the more or less hidden aims of our own imperialism (in this case French) remains a constant, paramount requirement. The seeds of the crisis in the Middle East today were sown during the Iraq (...)
Neoliberal globalization has pushed for the emergence of a new internationalism. Today, it is the violence of the social crisis in the North that is creating the conditions for a new, new internationalism.
Neoliberal globalisation effectively emerged at the beginning of the 1990s, immediately (...)
The Long Rise of Capitalism
The long history of capitalism is composed of three distinct, successive phases: (1) a lengthy preparation—the transition from the tributary mode, the usual form of organization of pre-modern societies—which lasted eight centuries, from 1000 to 1800; (2) a short (...)
We first published this text when it had eigth thesis. After Cochabamba conference on Climate Change, Peter Waterman added one more. Here is the updated version of the text... waiting for thesis 10 to come... ‘Chavez Calls for a 5th International’. An unsourced image on the Links (Australia) (...)
During the recently concluded five-month extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes had the opportunity to discuss President Hugo Chavez’s proposal to form a Fifth Socialist International, with Julio Chavez, a delegate to the PSUV (...)
Ilham Moussaïd’s candidacy on the Vaucluse NPA ticket in France’s recent regional elections has sparked a number of debates within the NPA and beyond. On 27 February 2010, Hendrik Davi wrote a piece entitled “Overcoming two debates within the anti-capitalist Left”. He takes up a whole range of (...)
The call by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for discussion of the formation of a ‘Fifth International’ has generated a lot of debate amongst the left around the world. As an addendum to the ‘Caracas Commitment’ of November 2009, a resolution was passed to form a preparatory committee to convene a (...)
We, the undersigned, endorse the idea of a new International and urge that its creation include assessing, refining, augmenting, and then implementing as many of the following points as the International’s participants themselves, after due deliberation, decide mutually agreeable:
1. A new (...)
Marta Harnecker remains ardent, audacious, reflective and perceptive. A collaborator of the Miranda International Centre [in Caracas], she will today [3 December] receive a reception in her honour in the Teresa Carreño Theatre for her outstanding career, fundamentally in the study of instruments (...)
During an international meeting of left parties held in Caracas from 19-21 November, 2009, Hugo Chavez launched a call for a Fifth Socialist International which, according to him, should bring together left parties and social movements. According to the president of the United Socialist Party (...)
I. The framework of the debate
First we will stress five points which serve as the framework for this report.
1. It was originally conceived as an element of the discussion on the world situation, and not as a point “in itself” on the agenda of this meeting. The international situation has been (...)
The ’Fifth International’ is not the “spectre haunting Europe and the world” of which Marx wrote in the ’Communist Manifesto’, but is an idea that is beginning to circulate. Recently, a French employers’ newspaper - the ’Bulletin des industriels de la métallurgie’ spoke of the danger of a Fifth (...)
A leader of the peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru in the early 1960s, a symbol of the unity and renewal of the Peruvian revolutionary left in 1978-1980, imprisoned, threatened with death, exiled and freed thanks to international solidarity, Hugo Blanco has in the last year faced what (...)
I would like to start with a reference to the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, which contains a remarkable and prophetic diagnostic of capitalist globalization The capitalist system, insisted the two young authors, is embarking upon a process of cultural and economic unification of the (...)
Abstract: A review of seven books, articles, briefings and email documents suggests a revival both of labour internationalism and of left reflection on such. The materials come from, or relate to, Japan, South Africa, the North American Free Trade Area, to Europe, to our globalising world and (...)
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