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UKRAINE Volodymir*, Ukrainian Labour activist
Dear comrades, The regime established after 2014 is a military-police regime. All left-wing opposition is banned, as well as communist « ideology », « symbols » and press. The trade union movement has been weakened by leaders who collaborate with the regime. Strikes are sporadic, mainly in the mines. Any kind of protest against the regime is immediately labelled…
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ROMANIA Delegation to the Romanian Embassy in Paris for the defence of Constantin Cretan
A delegation composed of Maître Hélène Rubinstein-Carrera, attorney emeritus, Jean-Pierre Daymard, teacher and Force Ouvrière trade unionist (in a personal capacity), and François Rampin, member of the international group of the CGT district union of Paris, was received, at its request, on the morning of 27 January 2022 at the Romanian Embassy in Paris.
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UNITED STATES « The labour movement must commit to the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal » — Clarence Thomas
The following interview with Clarence Thomas was conducted for the IWC Weekly Newsletter by Alan Benjamin, member of the editorial board of The Organizer Weekly Newsletter. Brother Thomas is a past president of ILWU Local 10 and remains a rank-and-file leader of the San Francisco Bay Area labor movement as a retiree in his union.
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ALGERIA Stop the repression of the Socialist Workers Party (PST) — Statement by the Organising Committee of Internationalist Socialists
The Council of State ordered this Thursday the temporary suspension of the activities of the Socialist Workers’ Party (PST) and the closure of its premises. We denounce with the utmost determination these iniquitous decisions. They are unacceptable attacks on the democratic rights and freedoms won by the youth revolt of 5 October 1988, which cost…
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KAZAKHSTAN Workers Rise Up Against Corrupt Regime
The doubling of the price of a liter of gas at the end of December was the last straw. As early as 2 January, in the industrial west of this former Soviet republic, the population and in the front line, the working class got together and set out their demands. In the days that followed,…
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GUADELOUPE Immediate End to the Repression Against Eli Domota!
Statement The Independent Democratic Workers Party (POID) of France expresses its indignation over the colonial repression of Eli Domota, spokesperson of the LKP [1] and former general secretary of the General Workers Union of Guadeloupe (UGTG), on December 30, 2021. Eli Domota was participating in a peaceful demonstration in Petit-Pérou, as part of the general…
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INDIA Declaration of the National Convention of Workers
The National Convention of Workers being held on 11 th November 2021 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi at the initiative of Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent sectoral All India Federations and Associations calls upon the working people to heighten the ongoing united struggles to the level of resistance against the desperate pursuit of anti- worker, anti-farmer, anti–people,…
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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
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…
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Dossier on Global Warming and « Ecological Transition » by La Tribune des Travailleurs (France)
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.
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UNITED STATES A wave of labor strikes
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 organizing, this strike wave has come as a surprise to most. At least 169 strikes occurred in 2021 Since the beginning of the pandemic, an increasing number of…
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