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• Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks up Propaganda and Repression
  16 April, by Richard Greeman

  After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized social movement known as the Yellow Vests has just held its second nationwide “Assembly of Assemblies.” Hundreds of autonomous Yellow Vest activist groups from all over France each chose two delegates (one woman, one man) to gather in the port city of St. Nazaire for weekend of deliberation (April 5-7).
  After weeks of skirmishing with the municipal authorities, (...)

• Social Movements in the Arab and African World: Factures and Features
  17 April, by Bashir Ali

  The landscape of the position of social movements in Sudan, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region indicates that a fundamental change in the structure of collective action is occurring in the region, a change that is reflected in the great increase in new faces and practices observed in the social and political arenas. This increase is an expression of the deep changes occurring in the nature of the societies in the region, such as the growing tension between the state and civil (...)

• Hard Time for Arab Dictators
  1 May, by Messaoud Romdhani

  At a time when good memories of the 2011 Arab Spring are about to fade away, when the then raised hope is about to give place to despair and disillusion, Sudan and Algeria have caught the world’s attention as millions of people in both countries took to the streets in endless and determined rallies, and ultimately succeeded to oust two autocratic presidents. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a senile 82-year president, who suffered a stroke years ago and could hardly move or speak is not going to run (...)

• No Compromise on the Civilian Transitional Power
  1 May, by Sudanese Communist Party

  The Sudanese Communist Party has declared its clear Stance: No compromise on the Civilian Transitional Power.
  In a separate development, the Alliance for Freedom and Change stressed in a statement issued on the 29th April that "the Military Transitional Council (MTC) - the new copy of the old regime - is trying disperse the sit-in at the army HQ". It called on the participants at the occupation to stand firm, to reorganize themselves and defend their positions. Furthermore, it called on (...)

• A Vote For Apartheid: The End of the Two States Proposal
  24 April, by Katja Hermann

  Katja Hermann, director of the West Asia Unit at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin, in conversation with Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative(Mubadara), about the impact of the Israeli elections on the lives of everyday Palestinians.
  Katja Hermann (KH): The preliminary results of the Israeli election show a likely victory for Benjamin Netanyahu from Likud and the right-wing coalition. What would that mean for the developments in the occupied (...)

• Israel’s New Wretched Republic
  12 April, by Gideon Levy

  On Tuesday, the Second Republic of Israel was born. It will be different from its predecessor. The First Republic chalked up impressive achievements, accompanied by lies and deceptions. The Second Republic will dispense with any pretense.
  The new Israel will no longer use disguises. When the ninth Israeli prime minister puts together his fifth government, Israel will look different. With victory at hand and growing confidence, Benjamin Netanyahu will be able to declare the advent of the (...)