International Viewpoint

Two months ago, we, representatives of the Russian left, asked for your solidarity in the face of the coming wave of political repressions in Russia.

Gilbert Achcar's forthcoming book, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013) is due out later this year. He was interviewed in December 2012 by International Socialist Review with whose permission we are republishing the interview.

Ligue de la Gauche Ouvrière (LGO – Workers' Left League) press release on the assassination of the comrade martyr Chokri Belaïd (February 6, 2013).

Chokri Belaïd, one of the main leaders of the Tunisian radical left, was shot dead this morning [6 February] outside his home.

No doubt. We are in the hands of thieves. The Barcenas, Pallerols, Crespo, Nóos and Mercurio cases, added to the Gürtel case, Millet, Champion, Pretoria and many others, show that those who have been giving us lessons of austerity have been benefitting: not only the bankers and businessmen but also, when the cameras have not focussed on them, the politicians, who have filled their pockets in order to live in opulence and extravagance. And at our expense.

Sulthoni Farras is a worker that became a victim of layoffs at a company in the capital city of Jakarta when the crisis hit in 1998. Despite this, he continued with the struggle by building the cross-sector union that later became the union Federation Progresip under the confederation KASBI.