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UNITED STATES Open Forum Labor and Antiwar Activists Speak Out on Afghanistan War and Its Outcome
In October 2001, in the name of the so-called « war on terror, » the United States and an international coalition bombed Afghanistan, drove out the Taliban, and installed a puppet regime that survived only thanks to U.S./NATO occupation troops. At the height of the war, 120,000 U.S. troops were deployed in Afghanistan, with heavy reliance on…
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AFGHANISTAN A letter from our correspondents in Kabul Second round of domination of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Criminal Taliban returned to political power in Afghanistan with the support of the capitalist states. During last few years, especially the agreement between the United States and the Taliban, which was nothing but engineering and shaping the « Islamic Emirate », itself showed the engagement of the world bourgeoisie from the project of democratization-imperialism in Afghanistan. With…
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PAKISTAN End of US Invasion in Afghanistan
We publish as a document, this contribution from the Pakistani section of the Fourth International (CORQI) on the situation in Afghanistan.
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FRANCE Macron declares war on workers and the youth He must go, his 12 July plan and his government with him — Statement by the Steering Committee of the POID
The measures announced by Macron on 12 July constitute a genuine declaration of class war: The counter-reform of the pension system, aiming at the destruction of the various specific systems and extending the average age of retirement by two years; Application on 1 October of the counter-reform of unemployment insurance, depriving hundreds of thousands of…
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CHINA Killing the Hong Kong Teachers’ Union
On 30 July, The People’s Daily, organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), called the Hong Kong Teachers’ Union (HKPTU) a « malignant tumour » that should be « eliminated ». The very next day, the Hong Kong government’s Education Bureau declared that it no longer recognised the HKPTU, accusing it of spreading political propaganda. This 95,000-member union, affiliated…
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UNITED STATES 800 nurses have been on strike for 122 days !
In the United States, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in the state of Massachusetts (whose capital is Boston), nurses have been on a massive strike for 122 days to get the powerful Tenet company, which owns the hospital, to respond positively to their demands, a strike carried out with the support and participation of the trade…
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HAITI The Assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse: A Bloody Settling of Accounts Within the Ruling Class
On the night of July 6 to 7, around one o’clock in the morning, the private residence of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was attacked by an armed commando. A few hours later, the Prime Minister reported that the president had been assassinated. In the days that followed, it was announced that the commando was composed…
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PUERTO RICO ¡Apoyo a los trabajadores de servicios públicos del sindicato UTIER en Puerto Rico!
Artículo publicado originalmente en el n°30 de la Carta semanal The Organizer de los Estados Unidos, firmado por Carol Wheeler. Al momento en que la Unión de Trabajadores Eléctricos y de la Irri- gación de Puerto Rico (UTIER), sindicato que festeja su 79o aniver- sario, sus miembros libran una feroz batalla para salvar la red…
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PUERTO RICO Support the Striking UTIER Utility Workers in Puerto Rico!
Article by Carol Wheeler first published in issue 30 of The Organizer Weekly Newsletter As the Puerto Rican Electrical Industry and Irrigation Workers Union (UTIER) celebrates its 79th year, its union members are waging a fierce battle to save Puerto Rico’s power grid from the devastating effects of privatization. On June 22, 2020, the public…
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FRANCE Communiqué of the Independent Democratic Workers Party (POID) Macron in the ultra-minority; he has to go, and his policies with him, now!
The second round of the regional and departmental elections confirmed the first: Macron is in the ultra-minority. In the first round, his lists received 3 % of the votes of registered voters. Where they could have held their own in the second round, they finished last. If democracy is the law of the majority, then…
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