IV587 - December 2023

Macron and his government have taken a spectacular step towards adopting a discriminatory, racist and xenophobic policy towards non-EU foreigners, with the support of the far right.

Sahra Wagenknecht’s decision to leave Die Linke brings clarity, but at a high cost.

“Overall, this result gives a breath of “fresh air” to a progressive government which, since 2021, has been characterized by a lack of transformative capacity and, above all, no desire - even minimal - to confront the dominant sectors. ”

“In a regime of democratic freedoms, citizenship, i.e. the participation of citizens in the construction of the public space but also their determination to defend their rights, is the essential criterion for the functioning of the regime. In a regime of dictatorship and authoritarianism, citizenship embodies subversion, being a spoilsport for the rulers.”

“The catastrophe will not be stopped by these COPs, but by the struggles, the convergences of the struggles and their international coordination.”

“So, even if the Left could hardly not vote for this measure, it is clear that it bears no relation to previous regularization measures which enabled hundreds of thousands of immigrants to obtain permanent residence permits.”

The kickback scandal involving the fundraising parties of the Abe faction, the largest faction of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), has become a major problem that is shaking the foundations of the Kishida regime in Japan.

“Ukrainian society demonstrated that it’s empowered by its diversity and not by cultivating ethnic nationalism and national isolation.”

Although the conservative right has made progress in most recent elections, the Polish elections of 15 October 2023, with a historic turnout (78%), on the contrary put the conservative government in a minority. What’s more, only 40% of voters took part in the racist migration referendums called at the same time, rendering their results invalid.

“This new configuration will make it possible to avoid too great a margin of autonomy and, above all, to respond to the new political situation in Africa.”