The number of cases of resistance in China continues to grow. Protests both large and small are an extremely frequent occurrence in China. They range in scale and nature from workers' protests against unpaid wages or demands for increasing labour rights, to protests against corrupt officials or environmental protests.

We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned about the continuous repression against social activists under lèse-majesté law in Thailand, including Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, a labour activist who has been imprisoned without bail since 30 April, 2011.

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Camp Usman, Mindanao – It was a cloudy 1st of May in 2011 when members of the Revolutionary Workers Party – Mindanao commemorated the 10th anniversary since its founding on May 1st 2001.

Alan Thornett from Socialist Resistance, the British section of the Fourth International reviews the growing strength of the Fourth International in Asia, starting from developments at the recent meeting of International Committee (IC) of the FI earlier this year.

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On April 1 by-elections were held in Burma to fill 48 vacant seats in Parliament. The National League for Democracy (LND) led by the Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi won 43 out of the 44 seats that it contested.

A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec's largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar sands and shale gas development, opposition to the Quebec government's Plan Nord mining expansion, support for radical measures to protect ecosystems, and other causes.

Not a day goes by without the outbreak of new mobilisations and new struggles.

In May 2010 Die Linke in North Rhine-Westphalia crossed the threshold of 5% and, with 5.6% of the votes, entered into the Land parliament of the western German state with the biggest population of all the Länder.

Following the strong comeback of Vladimir Putin in the presidential election held on March 4, 2012, Ilya Boudraïtskis, member of the Socialist Movement of Russia (RSD) looks back at the movement of protest against the regime which developed in Russia in recent months, and analyses the reasons for the crushing success of Putin and the perspectives for the country and for the Left.

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There is another way! Without debt, euro, EU and memoranda!
For the anti-capitalist overthrow of the coalition government and the Troika!
Power and wealth in the hands of the workers!

<strong class="spip">Ahlem Belhadj, President of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), spoke to Eve Fitoussi and Alain Baron for Afriques21 in January 2012 about the current situation of women in Tunisia.</strong>

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Adnen Hajji, a teacher and UGTT activist from Redeyef, spoke to Eve Fitoussi and Alain Baron for Afriques21 in December 2011 about the current situation in Tunisia.

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More than 5,000 people packed Colombo's Sugathadasa stadium for the inaugural conference of the <i class="spip">Peratugami Samajawadi Pakshaya</i> (Frontline Socialist Party – FSP) on 9 April 2012.

For a whole day the Faculty of Physics at La Sapienza University in Rome was transformed into a free university in movement.

The book <i class="spip">Debitocrazia</i>, published by the CADTM [<a href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/#nb1" name="nh1" id="nh1" class="spip_note" title='[1] French initials for the Committee for the Abolition of Third World (...)' >1</a>] was largely written in 2010 and consequently does not take the Italian case into account.