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Former Education Minister Benoît Hamon pulled ahead in the left-wing primary for this year’s French presidential elections Sunday, followed by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Hamon’s...

par Jacques Sapir 4 Novambre 2016 L’Union européenne traverse aujourd’hui crise majeure. Il s’agit d’une crise économique mais aussi d’une crise d’identité. A l’origine de cette crise...

With superpowers backing different sides in the bloody conflict in Syria, Isis continuing to fight in the Middle East, a spate of terrorist attacks across the globe and Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump both talking a tough game, the YouGov survey of 9,000 people across nine countries found popular opinion thinks world peace has rarely been further away.

More than four years on, we know that in 2012 the political fallout was only just beginning. It was in December 2011 that David Cameron reopened the European question by opting out of the new ‘fiscal compact’ drawn up by Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy with the aim of enforcing budget discipline across the EU. In the US in spring 2012, Mitt Romney emerged as the candidate from the Republican primaries, but the freakshow anticipated the Trump campaign to come. In Italy the ousting of Berlusconi in a backroom coup in November 2011 and the installation of the ‘unpolitical’ economist Mario Monti as prime minister set the stage for the emergence of Beppe Grillo and Five Star in the local elections of May 2012. In France as the fiscal compact began to bite, François Hollande’s presidency was dead almost before it had started.

Donald Trump’s electoral victory unleashed pent-up tectonic energies on the unprecedented scale. The world has been changed, much more than could be expected from any election of a US president. Just a short time has passed since election day, but it appears that the New World Order has received a shattering blow. There is a great feeling of freedom in the air, as if the vote broke the chains of a generation, and we suddenly found ourselves free.

Le philosophe Noam Chomsky, figure mondialement réputée de la linguistique et intellectuel engagé à la gauche de la gauche, devait recevoir, ce mercredi, une distinction scientifique à l’Assemblée nationale, à Paris. L’International Society of Philology (« société internationale de philologie ») qui honore tous les cinq ans un grand grammairien ou un grand critique littéraire devait lui remettre, après Roman Jakobson ou Umberto Eco, une médaille d’or spéciale. Avant que le philosophe américain n’assiste à la séance hebdomadaire de questions au gouvernement.

The surge in right-wing and anti-establishment sentiments as a result of failed neo-liberal policies in Europe is likely to lead to collapse of the EU in “a tragic development,” prominent American linguist, scholar and activist Noam Chomsky told RT.

On Saturday, left-leaning politicians across the world remembered Fidel Castro and citizens paid tribute to one of the revolutionary icons of the 20th century.

We, the undersigned, elected representatives, academics, trade unionists, social movements, party organisations, commit ourselves to a standing Plan B for Europe as a force of opposition and alternative to the European institutions. We refuse a Europe of permanent austerity, attacks on social and labour rights and devaluation of labour.

Depuis plusieurs mois, des centaines de Sioux du Dakota du Sud s’opposent à un projet d’oléoduc qui menace à la fois leurs sources d’eau potable et des sites ancestraux. Leur lutte contre le Dakota Access Pipeline a réussi à attirer l’attention du monde entier. Fin octobre, les opposants ont été sévèrement réprimés par les forces de l’ordre, qui ont procédé à plus d’une centaine d’arrestations.