Paralysis and strategic crisis

The first congress of the New Anticapitalist Party of France (NPA), held last weekend in Montreuil just outside Paris, ended in a dismal failure. None of the platforms presented was able to win a majority. The outgoing leadership – including the spokesman Olivier Besancenot and historical leaders such as Alain Krivine – barely got 41.8% […]

A step forward in building a workers’ and revolutionary left in the NPA

In the National Congress of the NPA last weekend, Platform 4, in which the militants of the FT-CI in France participate, got 3.7% of the delegates’ votes, and from now on, will have 6 members in the national leadership (CPN) of this party. We interviewed two of them: Vincent Duse, a worker and union activist […]

Paralysis and strategic crisis

The first congress of the New Anticapitalist Party of France (NPA), held last weekend in Montreuil just outside Paris, ended in a dismal failure. None of the platforms presented was able to win a majority. The outgoing leadership – including the spokesman Olivier Besancenot and historical leaders such as Alain Krivine – barely got 41.8% […]

Hosni Mubarak’s speech to the Egyptian people: ‘I will not . . . accept to hear foreign dictations’

Hosni Mubarak’s speech to the Egyptian people: ‘I will not . . . accept to hear foreign dictations’ Thursday, February 10, 2011; 4:50 PM Here is the transcript of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s speech to his nation Thursday evening, translated from Arabic by Federal Document Clearing House: In the name of Allah, the merciful, the […]

Tunisia, after the revolutionary fall of Ben Ali

The impact of the first revolutionary fall of a dictator in the Arab world in this century has reached not only the Maghreb and the Near East, but all the European governments are now extremely worried by the evolution of the situation. The process that led to the fall of Ben Ali goes back a […]

Morning In Tunisia: The Frustrations of the Arab World Boil Over

Michele Penner Angrist Last Friday, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia after 23 years as president. He was driven out of the country by the cumulative pressure of a month of protests, sparked by a young man’s economic despair and subsequent self-immolation. Much of the reporting on the demonstrations has emphasized Tunisians’ economic grievances: unemployment, […]

Revolts are spreading in the Maghreb

The youth rebellion in Algeria and Tunisia Social tension is rapidly growing in the Maghreb. It all began with the dramatic situation of Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed 26 year old Tunisian computer specialist, who immolated himself after some police knocked over his street vendor’s cart, because he did not have a license. Starting from that, […]

The emergence of the new Chinese labor movement

The wage increase of 30% at Foxconn, the Tawanese conglomerate and leading manufacturer in China shows a fundamental change in the new Chinese working class. This increase came after a wave of suicides of workers and especially the increase of 24% to 33% of the wages of workers at Honda, the Japanese automobile multinational with […]

European crisis and greek workers’ struggle. An warning call to workers around the world.

I. Europe, new epicenter of the world capitalist crisis 1 – The almost inexorable road to the default of the Greek debt and the explosion of the problems of sovereign debt in Europe, especially in the other countries of southern Europe (Portugal, the Spanish state, Italy) as well as Ireland, although also central countries like […]

Can the Cuban bureaucracy reform itself?

In an act with much impact, on March 26, the famous Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodríguez presented in public his new record, “Second Date.” Produced a few months after the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution, its exclusive subject matter is the internal situation on the island. His statements revived the discussions about the […]