Bulletin

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• Back to Year Zero of the 1979 Iranian Revolution: The ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Revolt
  30 November, by Amir Kianpour and Omid Montazeri

  The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic State’s history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution.
  On July 14, 1789, when the revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille in France, Louis XVI asked the Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt if this was a “revolt,” and the latter replied, “No Sire, it’s a revolution!”
  The very question and the same answer have resonated deeply these days amongst Iranians. On the 2nd of October, the (...)

• The Last First Israeli Anti-Zionist
  27 November, by Ben Reiff

  Sixty years after co-founding the radical leftist group Matzpen, Moshé Machover reflects on the organization’s enduring legacy, the internal splits that led to its demise, and its lessons for today’s anti-Zionist left.
  Moshé Machover is anxious to set the record straight. “There’s been a lot of misrepresentation about Matzpen — some of it deliberate,” he tells me sternly before our interview has even begun.
  Known to his friends as Moshik, Machover is the last living member of a quartet of (...)

• Bring Politics Back Into Society: 40% Abstained – Not Without Justification
  31 October, by Luciana Castellina

  Now, either we confront the very core of our system of producing, consuming, and living – requiring a real revolution – or the road will be open to the violence inevitably produced by unsustainable injustice.
  What we had long expected to occur has happened: in Italy, where antifascism is written into the Constitution, Fratelli d’Italia, the party of Giorgia Meloni, has won – Meloni who does not call herself a fascist because doing so would be illegal but loses no opportunity to show that she (...)

• Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire
  22 November, by Sam Gindin

  Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century. Then, in the face of the horrors of two world wars and the breakdowns in free trade during the Great Depression, a global capitalism appeared an impossibility. It fell to the American state, backed by the dynamism of American industry and finance, to create and spread a workable, capitalist world order. At the end of WW II, about one-third of the globe stood (...)

• Does COP Stand For “Confession Of Powerlessness?”
  1 December, by Vinod Mubayi

  Another COP (COP27), Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to give its full title) held in Egypt, has come and gone leaving, well, nothing much behind. The facts behind the warming of the Earth by greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide and methane due to combustion of fossil fuels have been known for many decades. An average global warming of 1.1 degree Celsius over pre-industrial age temperatures has been observed and this rise is (...)

• AYITI (HAITI) TALKS BACK TO CANADA
  26 November, by Alternatives international

  From Toronto Star-Week of November 20/22):
  Last week, Defence Minister Anita Anand noted that Canada could play a role by sending aid to the country.
  “We’re being very prudent about the next steps, not just in terms of the Canadian Armed Forces, but in terms of our government writ large,” she said.
  On Wednesday, Joly did not bring up troops when asked about Haiti, instead saying Canada will eventually sanction those profiting off the chaos.
  “We are not going to impose a solution on Haiti. (...)