Mass protests in pre-election period in Cote d'Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire: Presidential elections of October 25

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.

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Trotsky at work in his office in the Kremlin 1919

85th anniversary of Trotsky’s Assassination

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.

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Desperate starving children in Gaza reaching out for food

It’s a new holocaust – stop the genocide in Gaza

A new ‘holocaust’ is perhaps the only term that accurately characterises the horror we’re now seeing in Gaza. From the very beginning of this genocide, the denial of food, fuel and water has been used as a weapon of war against two million Palestinians living in the world’s largest concentration camp.

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