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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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In France,
the POID participated in rallies in many cities, developing its positions « Our own government, the war-mongering Macron government, is making workers foot the bill through his counter-reform of pensions, through his reform of unemployment benefits and through the freeze on wages and the strangling of public services, through this record-breaking €413 billion provisional defence budget…
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In the Spanish State,
« socialist » Prime Minister Sanchez has promised the delivery of six to ten Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Podemos, as well as Communist Party ministers, remain members of the government. Rallies were held in many cities, as for instance, on 23 February in Bilbao, called by the « No to War » coalition, which condemns « Russia’s aggression and NATO’s…
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24-25 February 2023 Throughout the world, we need to multiply our initiatives to say: No to war! No to any “Sacred Union” with war-mongering governments!
War is spreading; it is taking root. Every passing day sees the call made by workers, young people, activists of the labour and democratic movement from 47 countries at the World Conference Against War and Exploitation (29 and 30 October 2022, Paris) become more urgent. « In 2022, wars are ravaging all continents, causing massacres, devastation,…
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