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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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AFGHANISTAN The United States praises the « professionalism » of the Taliban
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), the Biden administration sent its representatives to meet the new masters of Kabul on 9 and 10 October, in Doha (Qatar). According to the US State Department, the…
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ITALY Tribuna Libera condemns the fascist attack on the CGIL trade union confederation
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 development, which must be met with a firm and massive response from the workers’ movement and democracy, without ambiguity, beyond any trade union affiliation or non-affiliation, and beyond…
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BRAZIL 700,000 protesters on 2 October to oust Bolsonaro
The scene – broadcast in the media – of starving people picking up refuse from a butcher’s shop to feed themselves shocked the country. This growing misery is the daily lot of a growing number of Brazilians. In the « Out with Bolsonaro! » demonstrations, which took place throughout Brazil on 2 October, there were many banners…
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AFRICA Mercenaries of the paramilitary company Wagner are being deployed in Black Africa
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 arose the profession bounty hunters and mercenaries, considered the second oldest profession in the world. All the major powers have their « shadow armies », tasked with doing their dirty…
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AZANIA/SOUTH AFRICA 9 Years later No Justice for the massacred Marikana mineworkers and their widows and orphans
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…
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