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Dossier: Social movements in Haiti
15 February 2021, by Pierre Beaudet, Plateforme altermondialiste, Sonia Fayman

Since July 2018 and on numerous occasions, in a context of deteriorating rights and living conditions, Haitians have mobilized with strength and courage against a mode of governance that widely practices corruption and abuse of power. To better understand these mobilizations, we publish a special report prepared by Pierre Beaudet and the Altermondialiste Platform.
Algeria: Hirak, a long-lasting movement
21 January 2020, by Plateforme altermondialiste, Saïd Djaafer

A few weeks before 22 February, when the regime has plugged the "hole" in the presidency, writings are already decreeing the "failure" of the Hirak, which is accused of having been too "radical" or not radical enough, of having refused to "negotiate", of not having "structured" itself, of not having "representatives". Others point to the lack of "ideological purity" of a movement that includes a fairly wide range of the country’s ideological and political currents.

Those in a hurry to decree the failure of Hirak are often the ones looking for the "invisible" hands pulling the strings. But by dint of being shaped by a perverse system, one ends up not seeing what is visible: a society that has set itself in motion to reappropriate a state that has been privatized for too long to the benefit of small groups and to the detriment of the majority. This movement is invaluable and it will not stop.
A new stage in the Middle East crisis
15 January 2020, by Pierre Beaudet, Plateforme altermondialiste

The latest US aggression in Iraq and the threats to bomb Iran are a sign of a bad start in this new year. The assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, as well as the execution of fighters of the Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah militia, opens the door to a larger-scale conflagration. The Iraqi government is demanding the departure of the 5,000 American soldiers still present in the country. Teheran is taking the nuclear road again while bombing American military bases in Iraq. Everyone is holding their breath.
Faced with the crisis in Venezuela: what to do?
4 February 2019, by Plateforme altermondialiste

Venezuela is in a serious social, economic and political crisis. The death of Hugo Chávez, who had "rebuilt" the country in 1999, coincided with a catastrophic decline in oil prices, which accounted for 90% of the country’s exports and income. Meanwhile, the governance of his successor Nicolás Maduro has significantly aggravated the impacts of this crisis. With the threat of intervention by the United States, which would like to destroy this country in the name of "human rights" and "democracy", the situation is even more serious. Such an intervention would not only destroy the government, but would also crush an entire people and their progressive forces.
What big transition?
31 May 2018, by Pierre Beaudet, Plateforme altermondialiste

This Thursday, May 17 opens in Montreal the "Great Transition", a rather exceptional event that awaits more than 1000 people.

For this meeting, the idea of "transition" becomes a process, an obstinate and daily struggle and at the same time a set of "pre-figurative" experiments. Hence the strong desire to create movements and parties that are tools of emancipation, not levers to allow "managers and skilled" to take the place of others. Hence the need to bring to the forefront and give voice to the invisible and inaudible of history, women, natives, refugees, the damned of the earth of all kinds to begin with this huge "precariat" , especially young, especially female. Hence the need to rethink the economy out of the shackles of false growth and false progress, by restoring another relationship with Pachamama, which requires not to consider it as a "resource".

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