16 articles

• 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.

• Dossier: Social movements in Thailand

  30 November 2020, by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

  Young Thai people are taking the streets to demand more democracy in the country and, for the first time ever, a reform of the monarchy. To better understand these mobilisations, we publish a special dossier prepared by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières.

• Towards happy days

  27 April 2020, by Monique Chemillier-Gendreau

  In this text, Monique Chemillier-Gendreau starts from the hypothesis that the response to the challenges currently facing humanity as a whole cannot be an addition of national policies, even less so if these policies try to be conducted in isolation.

• Something is happening in Colombia

  21 January 2020, by CETRI, Forrest Hylton

  Colombia is going through a cycle of protests, led mainly by urban youth. Although it is too early to pronounce on the changes and continuities, with an almost non-existent left and an ultra-right against the ropes, this wave could end up strengthening new figures of the progressive center.

• 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.