Catégorie : UNITED STATES
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Workers’ Voices Against War
March 18, 2026 “The Trump Administration’s unprovoked attack on Iran is a disaster for working people everywhere. Attacks by the US and Israel have already killed civilians across the country, including more than 80 children at a girls’ elementary school in Minab. (The death toll has since risen to 168—Ed.) Working people in the U.S.…
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“Our only priority is China”
This is how Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defence Minister, defined the policy that Washington intends to pursue during a meeting with his NATO allies. First measures: since 4 March, 20% tariffs are to be applied to Chinese goods entering the United States. These new tariffs will be in addition to those introduced during Trump’s first term,…
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Trump’s election: a defeat for the policy of the leaderships of the labour movement
Statement by the Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the 4th International (OCRFI) The election of Trump on 5 November 2024 in the United States is the expression of the fact that for the dominant factions of the bourgeoisie in the most powerful capitalist country in the world, the traditional means of its domination are…
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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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“Without U.S. weapons and aid, Israel could not carry out its war”
With more than 23,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli regime since October, and 85% of the population in Gaza forcefully displaced and 93 % experiencing crisis-levels of hunger, the international solidarity movement to free Palestine and end the siege on Gaza continues to grow like never before. In the United States, activists are…
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UNITED STATES: « Workers and unions have the capacity to stop shipments » to Israel
Erica Caines, activist with Ujima People’s Progress Party(a labour and black political organization in the state of Maryland) In our previous letter we published a call from activists in labor and black organizations in the U.S. declaring that it was the responsibility of labor organization leaders to demand a halt to all military and financial…
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UNITED STATES The wave of strikes spreads across North America
« I’m a single mother with two children and I live paycheck to paycheck. I can’t afford a vacation, and I’m not the only one, » explains Annick, a school janitor in Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada). Along with Annick, thousands of strikers invaded a provincial government building on December 8, « because we wanted to emphasize that…
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