Permanent Revolution N⁰2 – December 2019

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A New Revolutionary Ascent

Shakes the World Alejandro Bodart, MST leader and ISL coordinator

There has been a change of enormous magnitude. In different regions of the planet, workers and the excluded are rising against their governments and the political regimes that sustain them. At the forefront of the rebellions and revolutions that are taking place is the youth, which the capitalist system in its decline is leaving without a future. It is much more than a new moment: we are witnessing a change in the world situation. 3

In the month of October, there have been rebellions in Ecuador and Haiti and an extraordinary revolution in Chile. Thousands of kilometers away, rebellions in Iraq and Lebanon announce the awakening of a new Arab spring. In Europe, heroic Catalonia takes back to the streets, and in Asia, the rebellious Hong Kong does not bow to the brutality of the Chinese bureaucracy. On the first anniversary of the emergence of the French “yellow vests� - the precursors of changes that have since become widespread - the streets of Paris have relived the fires of those forgotten by the system. The powerful French working class prepares 3

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