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«Current Concerns», n°1, January 11, 2019

Zurich (Switzerland) | 29 January 2019

Yellow Vests: Future scenario, by Myret Zaki / Urgent search for an industrial policy! by Jacques Myard / “The Italians would like to decide for themselves how to live”. Direct democracy of Switzerland is a landmark for the new Italy / The United States refuse to fight for the transnational (...)

Emmanuel Macron in response to the social crisis. His televised speech

by Emmanuel Macron

Paris (France) | 10 December 2018

My people, the men and women of France! Here we are together with our country and future in mind. The events over the last few weeks in France and overseas have profoundly troubled the Nation. They have mixed legitimate demands and an outpouring of violence that simply cannot be accepted. Can (...)

Édouard Philippe’s Speech in Response to the Riots

by Édouard Philippe

4 December 2018

For more than three weeks, tens of thousands of French have expressed their anger, on roundabouts, tolls, near commercial areas or on the streets of a number of cities in France.
This anger comes from far. It has been brewing for a long time; it has often remained silent, held back by (...)

1 December 2018: Insurrection Day in the centre of Paris, Marseille and Avignon

3 December 2018

The French Movement, the “Yellow Gilets” has been tirelessly demonstrating throughout France without a break since 17 November 2018. On 1 December, it organized its second national demonstration in Paris.
This resulted in riots and arson. These started on the Champs-Élysées, and broke out in (...)

The Movement of the Yellow Gilets spreads in France, Belgium and Bulgaria

26 November 2018

On Saturday 17 November 2018, the “Yellow Gilets” movement sprung to
life in metropolitan France and has leapt across waters to the overseas
departments and crossed land borders to Belgium and Bulgaria.
The French Minister for Home Affairs thinks that number of demonstrators
would have peaked on (...)

Al-Abadi declares a state of emergency in Iraq

20 July 2018

Demonstrations are taking place in Southern Iraq denouncing the lack of essential services that the government should guarantee.
At the weekend, Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi declared a state of emergency anticipating that the social movement would catch fire in the capital.
The protests (...)

Hugo Chávez, Sabaneta’s boy… Dreaming of being armed

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 5 August 2017

It was on 28 July 1954, in Sabaneta de Barinas, Venezuela that one of the most important revolutionary leaders in Latin America’s history was born: Hugo Chávez Frías.
His mother, Elena Frías, brought him into the world, yet only remained with him until he was delivered. Story has it that, as a (...)

Qatar abolishes slavery

15 December 2016

The Emirate of Qatar has announced that on 12 December 2016, its sovereign, the Emir Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani, had abrogated the Kafala.
The Kafala assigned every foreign worker to an owner who confiscated his identity papers. The latter had complete power to determine who would employ him (...)

Brazil: Workers Struggle Trumps Sports Spectacle

by James Petras

3 June 2014

The escalating protests in Brazil are symptomatic of the wealth disparities between the ruling class and the masses. More than just food baskets, Brazilian people demand social justice and are up in arms over their government’s lavishly wasteful spending on the 2014 football World (...)

Conversation with Ernesto Villegas, minister of information for Venezuela

“The Bolivarian Revolution will follow the course and the direction that President Chávez marked out”

by Salim Lamrani

Caracas (Venezuela) | 9 April 2013

On the eve of the new presidential election scheduled in Venezuela on account of the recent death of President Hugo Chávez, who had just obtained a new presidential mandate, the French intellectual Salim Lamrani talks to Minister Ernesto Villegas. The current Venezuelan Minister of Communication (...)

The "Maple Spring"

Quebec students spearhead pan-Canadian uprising against austerity

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 7 June 2012

Catapulting the Canadian province of Quebec into the spotlight, the four-month old student protests have become a symbol of the most powerful challenge to neoliberalism on the North American continent. Recognizing that the students’ demands for an accessible and democratic public education (...)

Massive anti-NATO protests in Chicago

21 May 2012

Thousands of people rallied in Chicago against NATO on the opening day of its
Summit meeting.
The massive anti-NATO demonstrations aim to boycott the event. Thousands of peaceful protesters, including peace activists and war veterans, have marched through the second largest city in the U.S. (...)

Market massacres

by Marco Revelli

13 May 2012

The sociobiologist and philosopher Henri Laborit once enunciated the hypothesis that human beings confronting oppression had only three choices: submission, struggle or flight. Within the frame of his sociobiological analysis, suicide constituted the most extreme form of flight. In the face of (...)

Bahrain: the silenced revolt

Havana (Cuba) | 7 April 2012

While the Western media resort to every trick in the book to get people to believe in the narrative that an alleged popular uprising in Syria has been quelled in blood, mum’s the word with regard to the brutal suppression of the democratic movement in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco. In (...)

An open letter to international public opinion

The truth about Greece

by Míkis Theodorákis

Athens (Greece) | 25 February 2012

Composer and resistance icon Mikis Theodorakis lambastes the joint strategy devised by Greek politicians and financial institutions with the objective of pillaging the country. He explains how Greece was gradually put under IMF tutelage by Dominique Strauss-Khan and former Prime Minister (...)

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