International Viewpoint

“Today is the beginning of a new movement. Today is the end of millennia of oppression.”
— Kate Millett, feminist author, speaking to 50,000 in New York City, August 26, 1970.

“[T]his brief but inspiring example of workers' power could have won more time and so provided us with many more examples of how working-class people can organise together to create a socialist society.”

The socialist women's young international has but one slogan: ‘Forward!'

“We call all of you to draw a new vision of society and express them.

Let's believe in ourselves and move forward.”

“There is a challenge to keep alive a massive and popular feminist movement, but also a movement that is able to make the link with anti-racist, antifascist and LGBTI movements.”

“Industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and the travel network have set up this perfect storm of conditions, not just for COVID, but also for future pandemics.

How can we get a wider systemic perspective on the current crisis? How vulnerable will we continue to be when we hopefully vanquish COVID-19?”

“In order to prevent this foreseeable crime, everywhere let our voice be heard for the respect of human rights, the respect of prisoners' rights!”

“The most important place for activists is on the ground, building movements and grassroots forces that can force “the institutions” to address the mammoth crises facing us, and in the process fight to expand a democracy based not on ritual form, but substance.”

On February 19, 2021 Lausan, along with several other organizations including Solidarity, held a webinar book launch for Au Loong-yu's book, Hong Kong in Revolt, The Protest Movement and the Future of China (Pluto Press, 2020). The following are the author's slightly edited introductory remarks.

Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that direct actions are powerful and they work. … They need—and deserve—our support.

“Radicals are going to have to take seriously the challenges of organising to disseminate and discuss information using diverse technological platforms.”

In a crucial event in the political history of post-war Kosova, Movement for Self-Determination (Vetëvendosje - LVV) won the elections by a massive landslide

“The history speaks the language of battles despite triumph or defeat. In this sense, Elton is the voice that echoes the common social aspirations for radical change.”

“Ba is one of a number of public figures who condemned this tribute to a war criminal who collaborated with the fascist regime of Salazar. But as a Black activist he is the target of the sharpest vitriolic campaign.”

“There is a clear correlation between the neoliberal onslaught that started in the 1980s and the rise of neofascism and religious fundamentalism.”

Climate change and Republican policies combined in Texas last week to produce a disaster that left millions without power, without heat, and without water as temperatures fell below freezing and snow and ice covered the state, leaving at least 50 dead. The state's rare severe cold is another example of the extreme weather in the form of floods and forest fires that climate change has brought to the United States.

This motion was adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International on 23 February 2021.

The success of 22 February shows that the resistance movement against military rule has grown even stronger.

“We can't collapse. If we drew back at this point, the military regime would intensify its crackdown. Therefore, I think it is important to unite between organizations and intensify the strike.”

“What we do urgently need is to turn these protests onto the offensive. This means avoiding the isolation of the protests, broadening them and involving more and more social sectors.”