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Why we are closing our center for displaced women in Lviv

2 months 1 week ago

In this month of August, we are celebrating exactly two and a half years since our Feminist Workshop opened its first shelter for internally displaced women. At the start of the invasion, we opened three shelters. Two of them stayed open for six months. Today, we would like to announce some important news for us: our largest center, which has been operating since June 2022, is closing its doors.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Women, Ukraine
Collective

Charting a new course for Hong Kong's struggle

2 months 1 week ago

Five years have passed since Hong Kong's mass movement of 2019. Despite the regime's repression and white terror, the embers of resistance still smoulder in the hearts of every Hongkonger, unquenchable. The regime's censorship, repression, and rewriting of history will not succeed in erasing the memory and the truth of 2019, or the righteousness of our democratic cause.

- IV595 - August 2024 / China, Hong Kong
Yuet Zi

The pro-Maduro left abandons the workers and people of Venezuela

2 months 1 week ago

Unlike what had happened for the last 25 years in Venezuelan elections – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez's victory in 1998 – this time, after the presidential vote on 28 July, the broad Latin American left, including the entire body of supporters of ‘progressivism', has split from top to bottom.
An ever smaller, but still numerous, sector, full of intellectuals, echoes the argument of the São Paulo Forum , according to which, in order to save Venezuela and the region from (...)

- IV595 - August 2024 / Venezuela
Ana C. Carvalhaes, Luís Bonilla

The Fightback on Reproductive Rights

2 months 2 weeks ago

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, women's rights to abortion and, more broadly, to safe reproductive health care have been under attack. In response, women have organized at the grassroots to build local and state-wide coalitions to resist and defend their reproductive rights. Women's resistance has broad political implications. Reproductive freedom has become one of the central issues of the 2024 presidential campaign and could even decide it.

- IV595 - August 2024 / United States (USA), Women
Marian Jones

What the Election of AMLO's Protégé Means for Mexico

2 months 2 weeks ago

By a more than two-to-one margin, on June 2, 2024, voters in Mexico elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a protégé of outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to the nation's highest office, the first woman and the first Jew to hold the post. She ran as the candidate of AMLO's Morena party. Under AMLO, Morena (the Spanish acronym for the National Regeneration Party) stood on the left of the Mexican political spectrum, a populist party with a leader who spoke in a nationalist voice to the masses, but in an authoritarian manner—though AMLO's administration never had anything like the more anti-democratic character of Daniel Ortega's dictatorship in Nicaragua or of Nicolás Maduro's repressive government in Venezuela. Unlike those countries, where the constitutions were changed to permit the presidents to stay in power, the Mexican Constitution still prohibits reelection to the presidency, though AMLO may seek to continue to exercise power through his successor.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Mexico
Dan La Botz

Kivu prey to warlords in DRC

2 months 2 weeks ago

By relying on armed militias against the M23 rebellion, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is worsening the already dramatic human rights situation in the eastern part of the country. South and North Kivu are facing an offensive from the March 23 Movement (M23). This rebellion is steadily increasing its area of influence, and is currently capable of blockading the regional capital Goma, which has a population of around two million.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Democratic Republic of Congo
Paul Martial

Cameroon: The right to love and be loved

2 months 2 weeks ago

Once again, the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality is being discussed in Cameroon with a position that is unexpected to say the least. On June 30, the young 26-year-old rapper King Nasty declared his love for Brazilian model Layyons Valença on the social network X (formerly Twitter) with a photo of the two lovers kissing passionately. This tweet has significant repercussions in Cameroon.

- IV595 - August 2024 / LGBT, Cameroon
Paul Martial

People's Struggle Alliance Election Fund

2 months 3 weeks ago

The People's Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people's uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle') in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘system change'. The Socialist People's Forum (SPF), supporters of the Fourth International in Sri Lanka, is among its founders.

- News from around the world / Sri Lanka
Dharmasiri Lankapeli

Key Points About the Failed Military Coup and its Aftermath

2 months 3 weeks ago

Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace (the Palacio Quemado) have been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis Arce's administration, itself large the result of internal discord within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Despite its swift failure, the military rebellion will have political repercussions.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Bolivia
Pablo Stefanoni

The ultra-right governs Argentina: The end of an epoch?

2 months 3 weeks ago

On the evening of November 19, 2023, when official data from the presidential runoff in Argentina confirmed the victory of Javier Milei, the candidate of “La libertad adelantado” (Liberty Advances or LLA), many activists and intellectuals of the left and progressivism woke up to a reality that we had tried to deny or that we had not been able to understand. For this reason, the attempt to reach explanations, reasons and hypotheses for this unthinkable event must be, at the same time, an exercise in revising the categories and characterisations we made of Argentine social and political reality in previous years.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Argentina
Adrián Piva

Local Communities and Labor Movements Under Threat in Sakartvelo: Interview with Left Activists

2 months 3 weeks ago

In April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto. This law requires NGOs that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to declare themselves as "foreign agents." Why did the proposal of this law cause such massive demonstrations? What are the social and political issues at stake behind the confrontation between the NGO sector and the Georgian state? How is the geopolitical competition between Russia and the West reflected in the local context, and are the Georgian protests somewhat comparable to the Ukrainian Maidan?

- Features / Georgia
Daria Saburova

“Everyone knows what happened”

2 months 3 weeks ago

Yoletty Bracho, a Venezuelan activist and researcher living in France, has devoted her research to the relationship between popular neighbourhood organisations and the state born from the Bolivarian revolution. Present in Venezuela in the weeks leading up to the elections, she was able to meet with representatives of various components of the left and of Chavismo. Here she gives her impressions of the current situation and the conduct of the elections, based on the testimonies she gathered, and calls for internationalist solidarity with the Venezuelan people

- IV595 - August 2024 / Venezuela, Latin America
Yoletty Bracho
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