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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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RUSSIA Despite the war, workers’ resistance is making its way
Despite the repression of any expression of protest against the war in Ukraine, one of our correspondents says: « It is extremely significant that several groups of soldiers have refused to go to Ukraine. For an enlisted man, refusal means immediate and permanent dismissal from the army and possible legal action.” Among the collective refusals of…
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Freedom for American Women! Freedom for Afghan women! Freedom for women throughout the world!
As soon as the press leaked the intention of reactionary Supreme Court justices to challenge the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), thousands, then hundreds of thousands of women and men, sometimes together with trade unions, took to the streets across the United States. On 15 May, major demonstrations will take place to defend…
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May Day around the WorldThe International Campaign against War Is Getting Organised
On May Day 2022, workers and their organisations gathered in many countries around the world – with many exceptions this year: in many countries, war, repression, and restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic – prevented workers from gathering. Conversely, in some countries where workers are on the offensive, such as Sri Lanka (photo), some of…
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To the participants of the 3 April International Emergency Meeting Against War, to the correspondents of the International Workers’ Committee Our appeal will be handed out at May Day demonstrations all over the world
Dear comrades, The participants in the International Emergency Meeting Against War from 48 countries have decided that on May 1st, the International Day of Workers’ Struggle, the same call will be spread throughout the world to proclaim with one voice the opposition of workers and youth to war. Hundreds of signatures have been added to…
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DOWN WITH THIS WAR ! DOWN WITH « NATIONAL UNITY » / SACRED UNION!UKRAINE The People Face Up to the Russian Army
In Ukraine, the Russian army is bombing Kharkov and Mariupol… but is not advancing as quickly as the Kremlin thought. At the entrance to Energodar (Zaporizhia region), Russian tanks even had to retreat on 2 March in the face of several thousand inhabitants. Similar scenes are being repeated in the occupied cities: hundreds, sometimes thousands…
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