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GUADELOUPE The Independent and Democratic Workers Party (POID) alerts workers, activists and young people in France to the situation in Guadeloupe

29 novembre 2021

More than two and a half months ago, on 2 September, the main workers' and democratic organisations of Guadeloupe submitted to the prefecture a precise list of thirty-two demands expressing the legitimate aspirations of the Guadeloupean workers and people, which go far beyond the legitimate demand for the repeal of the Law of 5 August and the socalled "health" pass. On 23 September again, the organisations went to the prefecture[1] to demand that they be heard. [...]

Dossier on Global Warming and « Ecological Transition » by La Tribune des Travailleurs (France)

13 novembre 2021

La Tribune des Travailleurs, the weekly newspaper of the Independent and Democratic Workers Party of France (POID) has published a dossier on global warming and "ecological transition". It consists of four articles. We reprint this dossier here in full. [...]

UNITED STATES A wave of labor strikes

24 octobre 2021

An actual strike wave by union workers and unorganized workers is under way. With low labor union membership and labor laws designed to prevent or discourage union [...]

AFGHANISTAN The United States praises the « professionalism » of the Taliban

24 octobre 2021

We reprint an article published in La Tribune des Travailleurs (France) Two months after withdrawing American troops and organising the return to power of the Taliban (1), [...]

ITALY Tribuna Libera condemns the fascist attack on the CGIL trade union confederation

19 octobre 2021

The editorial staff of Tribuna Libera* firmly condemns the attack on the CGIL headquarters in Rome by known members of fascist organisations. This is a very serious [...]

BRAZIL 700,000 protesters on 2 October to oust Bolsonaro

19 octobre 2021

Sao Paulo, October 2. The scene – broadcast in the media – of starving people picking up refuse from a butcher’s shop to feed themselves shocked the country. This [...]

AFRICA Mercenaries of the paramilitary company Wagner are being deployed in Black Africa

19 octobre 2021

From the international pages of the Tribune des Travailleurs (France) « At a time when a man’s life was worth nothing, his death was worth a lot.” Thus [...]

AZANIA/SOUTH AFRICA 9 Years later No Justice for the massacred Marikana mineworkers and their widows and orphans

10 octobre 2021

It is almost 10 years since the tragic day where the Apartheid inherited South African Police executed an instruction from the current president of the ANC and Azania/South Africa (Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa) who made it clear that the demand of the workers were criminal and required what he called “concomitant action” from the police. As a result more than 34 workers were massacred in a hail of bullets leaving orphans and widows behind [...]

CHINA The US offensive against China – why?

10 octobre 2021

What does Biden want? On 21 September at the United Nations, Biden declared, hand on heart, that he did not want a "new Cold War", that the US is "not in conflict" with China but only "in vigorous competition". But a week before this speech, Biden had announced the formation of a new US-British-Australian military alliance against China, AUKUS. The Australian government then took this occasion to cancel its order for French submarines in favour of American nuclear-powered submarines, which would enable a rapid military attack by Australia against the Chinese coast. [...]

IWC Mumbai Conference Follow-up Committee has met

2 octobre 2021

Mumbai Conference Follow-up Committee has met. As our correspondents know, in 2019, activists from 52 countries called for another World Conference against War and Exploitation, for the Workers’ International. We are publishing below large extracts from the contributions made by activists from India, the United States, Azania/South Africa and France. [...]