“The best scenario is to create 10,000 jobs and end the war. The worst-case scenario is that Mozambique turns into a new Afghanistan.”

“In 2021, the year of Israeli apartheid, that log jam has broken. This year, the world's civil societies have had enough. Across countries and continents, across age groups and ethnicities, the marches, the manifestos, the opeds, the motions passed overwhelmingly have swelled into a torrent”

“Any effort to engage in solidarity with the struggles inside Iran begins not only with calling for the removal of U.S. sanctions and an end to Israel's attacks, but also simultaneously holding the Iranian regime accountable for its repression and exploitation of the people and environment of the region.”

Coming so soon after the big impact the Euros football had here it's interesting to reflect on the Olympics, its ideological meaning and function.

“Throughout that organizing work, I didn't believe we were going to win. I was used to working on campaigns where you fight, you fight, you fight because it's the longterm struggle. But here we won.”

“The path will be neither linear nor easy, there will be ups and downs, defeats and victories. The big challenge is to be in the struggles, with this new combative generation fighter, to build with it (and not for it) our programme of rupture.”

From 14 February 2021, thousands of Haitians took to the streets every weekend in the capital of Port-au-Prince and elsewhere to protest President Jovenel Moïse's refusal to abdicate power. Moïse, elected with U.S. backing in November 2016, had exploited an alleged loophole in Haiti's constitution that states the duration of the presidential term is five years. Moïse was subsequently attacked and killed in his home on 7 July, in circumstances which have still not been fully clarified. Arvind Dilawar of Jacobin spoke to Kim Ives, editor of Haïti Liberté about the protests, before Moïse's assassination.

“Life on Earth can recover from major climate change by evolving into new species and creating new ecosystems. Humanity cannot.” This is what can be read in the IPCC draft report (6th assessment report, expected for February 2022).

“The September 19 Russian State Duma elections will be very different from previous ones. On the one hand, they will take place against a background of a rapid decline in living standards, the dire consequences of the pandemic, and the extremely unpopular pension reform passed three years ago.”

“Most DSA members show little interest in international issues, yet they are likely to be the most contentious issue at this year's convention.”

“It would seem that the Western clan, who need Ankara on their side […], will not force Erdogan too much on the democratic question as long as he makes a pledge of allegiance and shows himself to be ‘cooperative'.”

Urgent action toolkit: Hisham Fouad

“We repeat that people are not interested in Zuma's arrest. It is the fact that they have been unemployed and hungry for too long that has created this crisis.”

“There is nothing communist about the Chinese model, which is run by billionaires.”

“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” — Ghassan Kanafani

The title of this book is partly based on a label applied to many progressives in the United States: “Progressive Except for Palestine.” Except for Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose repressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, endless wars, LGBTQ rights and other human rights issues, must extend these principles and values to the oppression of Palestinians.

“It is plain silly to describe today's CCP or China as “communist” or “socialist”.”

Michel Husson, born 3 April 1949 in Lyons, died suddenly 18 July 2021.

“Southeast Asia is spared nothing. Humanitarian disasters (whether caused by wars, natural hazards, etc.) are cumulative and multiplying their effects to the detriment of the populations.”

“Only a serious and sincere reflection on these events – that is not comfort-seeking, nor victimizing or aimed at obliterating – can make this twenty-year period a fruitful basis for rebuilding a politics on new foundations that can still aspire to another world.”