International Viewpoint

“We will never forget. We will never forgive. And we demand rehabilitation and reparations now.”

“Organizing workers today raises new challenges, as many have precarious jobs and large numbers are undocumented immigrants. Our work is cut out for us.”

“One thing is certain, however: the pro-democracy movement, by its capacity to endure and to innovate, has opened a gaping breach in the domination of the military-monarchical order. It has never ceased to amaze with its resilience and inventiveness. We can only salute it for what it has already accomplished and support it as much as we can for what it can still accomplish.”

The repressive rules in force on the mainland are being rapidly extended to Hong Kong, but a fightback continues and needs international solidarity.

“The left must demand that Starmer pulls back from this position and at least leave the door open for a fightback against the consequences of Brexit, which is a retrograde step of historic proportions.”

While Emmanuel Macron is receiving the Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Paris, the French president is continuing to be active on the Lebanese dossier to implement the “reforms” demanded by Paris and the World Bank in particular.

“It may seem farfetched, but the crisis of the US electoral system is real.”

“The left will have to rebuild an anti-war movement to resist Biden and to fight against U.S. imperialism, militarism and war when it erupts.”

Between the First Karabakh War and the Second Karabakh War there is a long period of 26 years, so many missed opportunities to resolve the conflict through negotiations. The failure should be found in the wrong beliefs, wrong ideas that led to wrong policies.

“It is time for Armenian and Azerbaijani intellectuals living abroad to assume their responsibilities, to develop another vision and discourse and break the cycle of propaganda and the threatening danger of another war.”

“Young people have rejected the cultural hegemony of the Church in Poland.”

Protest in Martinique against the proposed new French law on “global security” which has already provoked mass protests in France, see “Hundreds of thousands against authoritarian policies: let's continue to win”.

“We have protested and demonstrated so many times, but the government does not listen. The government has forced us to come out on the streets again."

“Hunger and despair on their own do not necessarily lead to revolution.”

“Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay.”

This statement was adopted by the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International on 30 November 2020.

“In summary, there is no safe method of disposal or “final” storage of radioactive waste.”

Humankind – A Hopeful History (Bloomsbury 2020) by Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of Utopia for Realists (Bloomsbury 2017).

Two hundred and fifty years after Beethoven's birth in December 1770 what is the relevance of this great composer?

On the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels we republish this appreciation.