Auteur : Michael
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IMMEDIATE HALT TO THE ISRAELI OFFENSIVE AGAINST RAFAH!
Communiqué from the Parti des Travailleurs (France) For the past twenty-four hours, the Israeli air force has been stepping up its bombardment of Rafah, where crowds of 1.5 million thirsty, starving and exhausted Palestinians are crammed together. The tanks have entered Rafah, cutting off the last checkpoint that allowed the passage of scant humanitarian aid,…
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May Day Around the World
Despite scorching temperatures – 42 degrees – workers in Bangladesh gathered under the red flags of the working class on May 1st. In Dhaka and Chittagong, our correspondents from the Workers’ Democratic Party and the Textile Workers’ Trade Union Federation demanded safety in the workplace and measures against the high cost of living, but they…
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On both sides of the front, the « real May Day »
Despite war, despite repression, both in Putin’s Russia and Zelensky’s Ukraine… on both sides of the front, workers’ activists expressed the best internationalist traditions of May 1st. In Kharkiv (Ukraine), the anarchist organization Assambleia declared, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day: « Today, May 1st, we commemorate the martyrdom of the anarchist workers executed in…
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Thirty years of ‘democracy’… but still no electricity for the inhabitants of Thembelihle
Elections will be held at the end of May, thirty years after the 1994 agreements between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and those of the racist apartheid regime. For thirty years, the white capitalist minority has retained all its privi leges, while the ANC governments have denied the black majority access to…
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Comment Biden a fait voter en un jour 361 milliards de dollars pour la guerre en Ukraine
Le 20 avril, Biden a fait voter 95 milliards de dollars de dépenses militaires supplémentaires, dont 61 milliards pour l’Ukraine. « L’essentiel de l’enveloppe bénéficiera à l’armée américaine et aux entreprises de défense du pays » (Les Échos, 22 avril). En réalité, ce sont 361 milliards de dollars que Biden a fait voter pour la…
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A “genuine May Day” for peace between people
This year will see “a genuine May Day », despite the repression. Far from the regime’s « Spring and Labour Day » festivities, Novosibirsk activists from the « Krasny Povorot » (Red Turn) media and the Organisation of Internationalist Communists (OIC) are organising together an authorised rally in the large Siberian city. Their flyer reads: « At this rally, you will…
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Campuses rise up against « Genocide Joe”
Report from Columbia University (New York)by our correspondent, Alan Benjamin, editor of Socialist Organizer. A vast movement has ignited the campuses. Students and teachers are mobilising against « Genocide Joe » (Biden) and demanding an end to all US military and financial aid to Israel. Unheard of since the Vietnam War. Mass demonstrations against the genocide in…
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How Biden got 361 billion dollars voted for the war in Ukraine in one day
On 20 April, Biden had 95 billion dollars voted for additional military spending, including 61 billion for Ukraine. « Most of the money will go to the US army and the country’s defence companies » (Les Échos, 22 April).On that day actually, Biden had 361 billion dollars voted for the war. Responding to Biden’s request, the US…
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Un “verdadero 1° de mayo” por la paz entre los pueblos
Un “verdadero 1° de mayo” tendrá lugar este año, a pesar de la represión. Lejos de las festividades del régimen por “La Fiesta de la primavera y del trabajo”, los militantes de Novosibirsk del medio de “Krasny povorot” (el giro rojo) y de la organización de comunistas internacionalistas (OCI) organizan conjuntamente una concentración autorizada en…
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Los campus se levantan contra “Joe el genocida”
Reportaje en la universidad Columbia, en Nueva York,con nuestro corresponsal Alan Benjamin, responsable de Socialist Organizer*Un vasto movimiento envuelve al campus. Estudiantes y profesores se movilizan contra “Joeel genocida” (Biden) y exigen detener toda ayuda militar y financiera de los estados Unidos haciaIsrael. Situación nunca vista desde la guerra de Vietnam. Las manifestaciones masivas contra…
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