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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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Resisting wars and imperialist aggression. Strengthening global unity and the struggle of the working class
The French government has not granted a visa to Mushrefa Mishu, General Secretary of the Democratic Revolutionary Party and President of the Garments Workers Unity Forum (GWUF) of Bangladesh. As a result, she was unable to participate in the ‘Emergency International Meeting Against Global Imperialist War’ on 21 and 22 March 2025, but she had…
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After a two-month truce Gaza: once again facing genocide
An article by Dominique Ferré in La Tribune des Travailleurs (France) Trump and Netanyahu have deliberately decided to resume the bloody bombardment. Their objective: to terrorise the population in order to implement their plan for the “transfer” of Gaza’s inhabitants to an unknown destination. The State of Israel carried out dozens of bombings in Gaza…
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“Let us live together in a single State for all its citizens”
Young Palestinians and Jewish Israelis discuss a democratic solution In contrast to Trump and Netanyahu’s expulsion plans, with the complicity of Arab regimes, young Palestinian and Jewish Israeli activists have for months been discussing what could be a democratic solution. In a “message to Israeli Jews from Gaza”, Mohamed Zray, a genocide survivor and Gaza…
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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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Mass demonstrations across the country on 28 February
28 February marked the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, in which fifty-seven passengers were killed, including many students. For two years, the government has refused to assume its responsibilities. Worse still, the evidence at the scene of the accident that could have clarified its causes has been destroyed, along with documents. So the…
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Solidarity with the workers at the Ritun factory!
On 21 November 2024, the County Court in Kairouan handed down a six-month suspended prison sentence to Jamel Chérif, general secretary of the local union in Sbikha (affiliated to the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail UGTT- Tunisian General Labour Union,), and a three-month suspended sentence to thirteen workers at the Ritun shoe factory. Their “crime”?…
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The UGTT in crisis… at a time when workers need it most
Letter from a reader in Tunis Since its creation in 1946, the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT – Tunisian General Union of Labour) has played a major role in Tunisia’s history, both after independence and following the 2011 revolution. But the crisis it is going through has reduced its influence and its ability to…
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A paradise for multinationals,guaranteed by agreements with the European Union
The “Ritun affair” illustrates the complicity of the authorities with neo-colonial capitalism. In Tunisia, foreign multinationals benefit from privileges granted them by the 1972 law: tax exemptions and unrestricted repatriation of their profits. They take advantage of low labour costs, with successive governments keeping the minimum wage artificially low. This trend was exacerbated by the…
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13 February: 100,000 workers march in Brussels
On Thursday 13 February, 100,000 striking workers demonstrated in Brussels responding to a call from the trade union common front (which regroups the Belgian General Workers’ Federation, FGTB, the Christian trade unions CSC and the liberal CGSLB). United from the north (Dutch-speaking) to the south (French-speaking), via Brussels, under the flags of their trade unions,…
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