International Viewpoint 443 December 2011 PDF - IV443 - December 2011 / PDF

Esther Vivas. I és que quan semblava que ja no podíem estar pitjor... la realitat una vegada més supera la nostra imaginació. Les mesures preses pel recentment estrenat. Consell de Ministres no només han deixat congelats als treballadors de la funció pública sinó a la resta de mortals. - Estat Espanyol / Economia, Estat espanyol, repressió

David Virgili. Analitzem el salt que hi ha de 2007 a 2009: passem d'un 2% de superàvit a un -11% de dèficit, és a dir, el dèficit disminueix un 13% del PIB. Què ha passat? Aquí hi ha aquest 10% del PIB en ajuda a la banca! - Estat Espanyol / Economia, Estat espanyol

David Barsamian interviewed the well-known anti-imperialist writer and broadcaster Tariq Ali in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 26, 2011 for International Socialist Review. - Features

Jesús Marín. El context assembleari actual i les noves resistències sorgides arran les retallades del govern de Mas fa imprescindible un front comú més ampli per tal d'unificar les lluites contra les retallades al Baix primerament, ja que aquesta qüestió ha sigut abordada per la majoria de moviments assemblearis i plataformes nascudes aquest any. - Catalunya / Catalunya, anticapitalisme

Jordi Creus. Entre 400 i 500 treballadors i treballadores de l'administració van manifestar-se dimecres 28 a la tarda pels carrers de Lleida. La convocatòria, que havia estat efectuada pels sindicats del personal docent (USTEC-IAC, CCOO i UGT) va comptar amb la participació d'altres col·lectius, entre ells funcionaris de presons, bombers i treballadors de la sanitat. - Catalunya / Catalunya, anticapitalisme

The death of the former Czech president and emblematic figure of the dissident movements in the countries of Eastern Europe is giving rise to a somewhat debatable rewriting of history. Havel is presented today as an “anticommunist resistant”, a combatant “against communism”, the liberator of Czechoslovakia “from the communist yoke” against which the Czechoslovak people “rose up” in 1968 during the Prague Spring and in 1989 during the Velvet Revolution. - IV443 - December 2011

PHILIPPINES - Asia-Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) and Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) solidarity activists today held a silent protest in front of Indonesian Embassy in Makati City in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence from the Dutch rule. Fifty years ago on the 1st of December 1961, in the then Dutch colony of West New Guinea, The West Papuan

Jakarta Post. Environmental groups predict that land disputes over mining and plantation activities will intensify throughout the country in the coming months and they have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to immediately audit the operation of palm oil and mining companies. The groups, including palm oil business watchdog Sawit Watch and the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) said that

A man who was seriously wounded during an anti-mining protest that turned deadly in Sape, West Nusa Tenggara, is taken for medical care on Saturday. (Antara Photo) The Australian government has confirmed that it is aware of the shooting deaths of two Indonesians during a protest against the exploration activities of an Australian resources company on Sumbawa island over the weekend. “The