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AFGHANISTAN « Don’t let the Taliban take us back to the stone age!”
Hasina Sadet, an activist of the Radical Left of Afghanistan (LRA), spoke at the meeting of the POID Working Women’s Commission on 11 March in Paris. She spoke about the situation of Afghan women since the US administration organised the return to power of the fundamentalist Taliban religious militia in August 2021. Can you tell…
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A new phase of warfare threatens
An article by Dominique Ferré in the Tribune des travailleurs (France) The clouds are gathering in the sky over Ukraine. The melting of the snow has prompted each side to prepare its offensive. On the Russian side, after having sent 300,000 « mobilised » citizens into battle, decimated by the fighting, Putin’s regime plans to mobilise 400,000…
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FRANCE To block Macron’s coup: general strike! A POID (Democratic and Independent Workers’ Party) leaflet
On this March 16, Macron resorted to a coup and forced through his project of destructive pension reform. On March 16, the Fifth Republic displayed every facet of its anti-democratic make-up. Thus, a law that no one passed could be imposed and could destroy the pension rights of millions of workers. Thus, in defiance of…
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GREECE “They were students! Down with this government of murderers!”
“Call me when you get there”: this has become the iconic phrase of the revolt that has erupted since the February 28 train accident that claimed the lives of fifty-seven passengers, mainly students. 65,000 workers and youth demonstrated on 8 March throughout Greece. In Athens, Syntagma Square, just in front of the Parliament, echoed the…
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March 8 in Afghanistan
On International Women’s Rights Day, protests against Taliban policies multiplied. Publicly or secretly, women demanded the release of detained protesters and the reopening of schools, universities and workplaces from which they had been driven out by the Taliban regime (reinstated in August 2021 by the US administration). The Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women organised clandestine…
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No « sacred union » with governments in the service of NATO!
February 24, 2023 has marked the anniversary of the onset of the one-year long war in Ukraine. On this occasion, the International Workers’ Committee against War and Exploitation, for a Workers’ International, has once again sent out a call to raise the banner of workers’ international unity against warmongering governments. The call has been heard…
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In Portugal,
in Lisbon, on 25 February, workers and activists gathered at the call of the Platform against War. In the afternoon, many had participated in the great march of tens of thousands of teachers (the fifth in two months). Speakers denounced the participation of the Portuguese « socialist » government in the war, and they declared that they…
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In Belgium, on 26 February in Brussels,
a demonstration « for peace » was called by the General Federation of Workers of Belgium (FGTB), the Party of Labour of Belgium (PTB) and others. In the leaflet they distributed, the activists of the Unity-Eenheidcommittee Committee called attention to [the fact that]: « The traditions of the workers’ movement, of socialism, of democracy are the opposite of…
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In Italy,
responding to the February 17 call of the International Workers’ Committee launched in Turin, workers and activists met (some by videoconference from Sicily, Aosta and Lombardy) and decided to participate, with their own slogans, in the « For Peace » rallies convened in Italy on February 25.
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In Britain,
around 3,000 workers and youth demonstrated on 25 February in London at the call of the « Stop the War coalition », behind a banner proclaiming « Peace talks now, stop the war in Ukraine, no to Russian invasion, no to NATO, no to nuclear war ». Workers and youth, trade unionists and members of the Labour Party demonstrated,…
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