Socialist Resistance

International Viewpoint: Nothing Israel does will serve Syrians' struggle for freedom https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8713 Joseph Daher explains why celebrating Israel's assassination Hezbollah's Nasrallah is short sighted when it comes to Syrians' struggle against Assad's regime.

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Syria ,

Israel ,

Lebanon

International Viewpoint: Ghana: The gold curse https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8714 Demonstrations against illegal gold mining in Ghana are becoming a major political issue, highlighting the corruption of the country's ruling elites. With just two months to go before the country's presidential elections, the environmental issue is entering the debate as citizens mobilise against illegal gold mining.

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Ecology and the Environment ,

Ghana

International Viewpoint: Publishing a new collection of writings by Daniel Bensaïd https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8712 New and expanded edition of Strategies of Resistance by Daniel Bensaïd (1946 – 2010) one France's most creative Marxist philosophers. His work is now increasingly being translated and attracting global attention.

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News from around the world

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Marxism ,

Fourth International

International Viewpoint: Thinking about the (new) paths of the Latin American left and right in a world in crisis https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8697 We are publishing the foreword written by Franck Gaudichaud and Éric Toussaint at the request of the Cuban magazine Temas for a book coordinated by Julio César Guanche, to be published in Argentina under the title Izquierdas y derechas en America latina .

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Features

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Latin America

International Viewpoint: Al-Aqsa Flood, the West and the Holocaust: A Conversation with Gilbert Achcar https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8710 Interview published by Megaphone (Beirut) on 9 October 2024. Translated from Arabic.

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Palestine ,

Germany ,

India ,

Israel

International Viewpoint: Starmer's first hundred days https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8709 Dave Kellaway looks at the 12 key takeaways from the Labour government's first hundred days.

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Britain

International Viewpoint: Belgium: For freedom of movement and settlement, against closed centres https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8707 In memory of 22 September 1988, the day on which Semira Adamu, an undocumented migrant activist, was killed by two police officers during an attempted deportation.

For freedom of movement and settlement and the abolition of fascist migration policies.

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Belgium ,

Migration ,

Anti-racism and Islamophobia

International Viewpoint: The U.S. Election Too Close to Call and too Strange for Words https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8708 With just a little more than two weeks until the November 5 U.S. presidential election that pits vice-president Kamala Harris against former president Donald Trump, the contest remains too close to call. A variety of issues, from conspiracy theories to assassination attempts complicate the campaign and sometimes confuse and mislead both voters and poll-takers.

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United States (USA)

International Viewpoint: University funding law: Milei's first failure? https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8706 Last week, massive demonstrations took place throughout Argentina in defence of public universities and against President Milei's veto of a law passed by parliament to fund them.

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Argentina

International Viewpoint: How dangerous is Chinese Nationalism? https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8704 When four Americans were stabbed in Jilin on June 10, I bought the CCP foreign ministry spokesperson's comment that it was an ‘isolated case' [1 ] . Then when another knife attack targeted at a Japanese school bus in Suzhou happened in the same month [2 ] , I could still tell myself that China has a huge population so there must be more lunatics than smaller countries. Nevertheless, I started doubting my judgement after a Japanese school kid got killed in Shenzhen in September. This month, the victims of latest cowardly attack carried out by Chinese murderer were three kindergarteners in Zurich and the tragedy happened on China's National Day. Now I am quite sure that this is a seriously worrying trend.

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China

International Viewpoint: How Kenya's Youth, Middle Classes and Working Poor Joined Forces https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8703 I remember Kenya's June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer in soccer games) and loud blasts of teargas.

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Kenya

International Viewpoint: One year after 7 October, Gilbert Achcar discusses the future of Gaza, Lebanon, and the regional conflict https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article8702 A year after the beginning of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and with the launch of Israel's assault on Lebanon, UK academic Gilbert Achcar describes possible future scenarios

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IV597 - October 2024

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Palestine ,

Israel ,

Lebanon