On the one hand, successive governments cut into our social safety net, and on the other, they implement freedom-restricting laws to prevent us from protesting.

The strategies used by the minister to bypass Quebec institutions are blatant. He alone decides the fate of the working class and grants himself the right to manage any labor dispute as he pleases, no longer even pretending to respect workers.

On top of numerous broken campaign promises, the Ouattara government has also been responsible for a record level of public fund embezzlement. From inflated infrastructure project costs to funds meant for basic social services — water, electricity, education, and healthcare — public money has been diverted often with impunity and in full view of the public. Ouattara fears losing power because he doesn’t want to be held accountable.

Stalin and the bureaucracy feared Trotsky as a living, breathing indictment of their monstrous dictatorship and his survival as a vindication of every life lost and body incarcerated in the gulag. His life in exile was dedicated to the task of organising those comrades who rejected the betrayals of Stalinism into the nuclei of new revolutionary parties, first as the International Left Opposition (ILO) and from 1938 as a new ‘Fourth International” under the shadow of fascism and the looming prospect of a new world war.

Review of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. By Peter McGregor, Socialist Party Ireland 6