The internationalists

On 11 October demonstrations organised by NGOs and charities like 38 Degrees, the World Development Movement and War on Want took place throughout Europe (in Hamburg, London, Ljubljana, Berlin, Madrid, Helsinki, Vienna, Paris) against the proposed so-called Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP. Many heard about TTIP for the first time that day.

"...the state is an instrument for the suppression of the working class, nothing else!" · At the time of writing, a rising tide of anger is shaking Mexico. International media broadcast images of masked youths administering violent reprisals against the police, some wielding machetes, some behind captured police riot shields.

"This victory is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists" said Evo Morales re-elected for a third consecutive term as president of Bolivia. To make matters worse and inflame the minds of many "anti-imperialists", he dedicated the victory to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the dead. Venezuelan president.

There would be nothing new under the Middle Eastern sun, if it were not for the dramatic upheaval that triggered the birth of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. This continues to agitate the countries of the Coalition and those directly involved in the war, such as Turkey. · The Assad government, through its Minister of Defence, recently said that two MiG fighters, while flying over the airspace...

This year’s commemorations of the hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War are very different from 50 years ago. In 1964 we lived under the shadow of a bipolar nuclear world. Two years earlier the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought humanity to the edge of annihilation. War and nationalist gestures were largely regarded as obscene.