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PAKISTAN All Pakistan Trade Union Federation Statement on Currently Pakistan Flooded by Heavy Rains
« So far, exceptionally heavy monsoon rains that triggered flash floods across the country have affected 33 million Pakistanis, damaged nearly 1 million homes and killed at least 1,061 people. (…) » All Pakistan Trade Union Federation statement and appeal to International comrades and friends.
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FRANCE POID addresses thousands of workers and young people to raise the necessary funds to hold the Open World Conference
The World Conference against War and Exploitation, for a Workers’ International will be held in less than two months on October 29 and 30 in Paris. To help finance the material aspects involved in the holding of the conference, the committees of the POID in France are organizing the raising of funds from thousands of…
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International appeal of support for the people of Sri Lanka!
The following appeal was launched by activists, workers, students, intellectuals, artists, internationalists who are forced to live in France and in different countries of the world because of the economic, social and political conditions in Sri Lanka. It has since received support from labour activists, rural workers and intellectual activists in Sri Lanka and from…
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NATO: Towards the Generalized Militarization of Europe
What should we learn from the NATO summit that took place in Madrid (Spain) from June 28 to 30? According to the official communiqués of this U.S.-led military alliance, founded in 1949, the Madrid summit marked a « strategic turning point. » What is that? NATO is now calling Russia « the most significant and direct threat to…
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MORROCO The Tragedy of Melilla
A real human tragedy took place on June 24 in the north of Morocco after the attempt by about 2,000 migrants from sub-Saharan countries to enter Mlilya (in Spanish Melilla), an enclave occupied by Spain. This attempt was repressed in a bloody and deadly manner, costing the lives of at least 23 young migrants and…
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On All Continents, In the Face of Soaring Prices, Workers’ Mobilise for Their Demands
On all continents, workers are suffering from soaring food and fuel prices, caused by the speculation of capitalist markets. Everywhere, they are seeking to assert their demands: wage increases, freezing of prices and an end to austerity measures. Under one and the same red banner, the banner of labor organisations from Ecuador to Tunisia, to…
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NIGERIA « May the Organisations Come Together for Socialism, for an Egalitarian Society »
Interview with the singer Africana, endorser of the call to the World Conference against War and Exploitation, for a Workers’ International (Paris, October 29-30) — Africana, you are a Nigerian singer. Can you tell us more about yourself and your songs? What are they about? What do your songs stand for? — My name is…
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GREAT-BRITAIN Trades Councils Conference 2022, Emergency Motion 1 : « Release of the President of the Russian trade union Courier Kirill Ukraintsev »
The National Congress of the Trades Councils (TUC’s) was held on Saturday, June 11 in Leicester, England. On the agenda was the following emergency motion, tabled by the Greater Manchester Association of TUC’s grouping 10 TUC’s. After the motion was read out, the demand for the immediate release of the trade unionist Kirill Ukratsev, president…
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GERMANY « We will soon have NATO’s biggest conventional army in Europe » (Chancellor Scholz)
In a show of national unity, in early June and by a very large majority, German MPs voted to provide 100 billion euros for the army. On June 3, the Bundestag (Parliament) voted to amend the Fundamental Law (which serves as the Constitution) to allow for the creation of a « special fund for the Bundeswehr »,…
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RUSSIA Kirill Ukraintsev appeal hearing
An activist involved in the campaign for the release of trade unionist Kirill Ukraintsev tells us about the appeal hearing he attended in a Moscow court on 23 May. The lawyers of the head of the Kurier trade union (kurier means “deliveryman” – translator’s note) and left-wing activist Kirill Ukraintsev had appealed against the court’s…
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