For a popular workers’ pole around the UGTT Statement by Ligue de la Gauche Ouvrière (Workers’ Left League) source: International Viewpoint Not a day goes by without the outbreak of new mobilisations and new struggles. Because the popular résistance has not wilted despite the repressive apparatus, despite the marginalisation and scorn shown not only by… [Read more…]
March 23, 2012
The Syrian revolution is one year old Ghayath Naisse Source: International Viewpoint The Syrian army moved into the district of Amro Baba in Homs on March 1 after having surrounded and bombarded it for a month. The resistance of the population was immediate, all over the country. The oligarchy in power presented the destruction of… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
Socialists on the Ongoing Struggle Against the Regime This translation of a statement from the Syrian Revolutionary Left, a group of Marxists inside and outside Syria that in January published the first issue of a monthly newspaper was published by the New Socialist webzine on the 19th of February 2012. The introduction is taken from… [Read more…]
March 11, 2012
Salute to Palestinian women Statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (source: REDLINE) On International Women’s Day, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine saluted the courageous, strong and constant steadfastness of Palestinian women, facing down occupation and oppression and the backbone of the struggle for liberation and return. The Front… [Read more…]
March 8, 2012
“We affirm our solidarity with women in the revolutionary process” Statement by the IC of the Fourth Intenational This statement on solidarity with women in the revolutionary process in the Arab region was adopted by the annual IC meeting of the Fourth International on the 28th of February, 2012. 1. The movements that swept Ben… [Read more…]
March 6, 2012
Momentum builds for May 19 protest against NATO /G8 By CHRISTINE MARIE this article appears in the March, 2012 Socialist Action On March 23-25, hundreds of antiwar and international solidarity activists, students, and Occupiers are coming together in Stamford, Conn., for the United National Antiwar Coalition conference. A major task of the UNAC conference will… [Read more…]
March 6, 2012
U.S., Israel hurl war threats against Iran By DANIEL XAVIER This article appears in the March 2012 issue of Socialist Action The drums of war in Washington are beating yet again. U.S. government officials, along with corporate media pundits, are calling for military action against Iran. Using similar logic that was used… [Read more…]
February 25, 2012
February 21, 2012
Liverpool Trade Unions Council meeting approves engagement in BDS campaign Source: IWL-FI Liverpool TUC Believes: Trades Council has a moral responsibility to heed the call of oppressed people like we did in the 1980s when adopting the BDS call by South Africans fighting racism and apartheid. The call for BDS has come from over 170 Palestinians civil society… [Read more…]
February 10, 2012
Sameh Naguib has been released! This has been confirmed by the Facebook page of the CSS, which issued the statement below, and is at http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=27508 as well as on Twitter. But stay tuned for further calls for support; the regime will no doubt attack others as the general strike and other protests pick up steam… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012
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