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UNITED STATES Amazon : When profits rise, so do occupational injuries
According to a study by the trade union institute Strategic Organizing Center* based on data reported to the US Department of Labor, Amazon’s phenomenal growth in profits is closely linked to a high level of occupational injuries (OI). From 2010 to 2020, Amazon has grown from 33,700 to 1.3 million employees. Its annual net income…
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TUNISIA « We are at a turning point”
Interview with Jalel Ben Brik Zoghlami, communist activist, former political prisoner, one of the founding members of the organisation called Popular Front. What is your assessment of the situation in Tunisia? The political and social situation has suddenly worsened. It was already in crisis, but the government’s announcements have made things worse. After the revolution…
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ALGERIA « No to the 12 June elections! »
An interview with Abdelkader Bentaleb, of the Organising Committee of Internationalist Socialists of Algeria (COSI) What is the situation on the eve of the 12 June legislative elections? The regime knows perfectly well that these elections are and will be massively rejected. When he called them, the president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, had clearly indicated that the…
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FRANCE POID Banned from Demonstrating A Threat to all the Labour Movement!
Convened six weeks ago, the Paris demonstration of the Independent & Democratic Workers’ Party was banned on the very day it was to be held, 5 June, by decision of Prefect Lallement acting on behalf of the government, a decision confirmed by the administrative court. This is the right to demonstrate that is at threat.…
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PALESTINE “The Unity Intifada”
On Tuesday 18 May, a powerful general strike, having started in Palestinian youth groups, achieved the unity of the Palestinian people and its components in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the 1948 territories (the current State of Israel), as well as in the refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. During this strike « from…
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COLOMBIA “For forty years, ministers, big bosses and narcos have been governing against the people”
Faced with the popular uprising of workers and youth, the government has ordered a military intervention in Cali. We publish an interview with Anna, an activist in Cali, a member of the National Union and Community Coordination. What are the root causes of the uprising? On April 28, mobilisation started against the reforms which we…
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PALESTINE Demonstrations around the world in support of the Palestinian people
Rarely has such mobilisation in solidarity with the Palestinian people been seen. We are publishing a brief report. We invite all our correspondents to send us reports, accounts and photos on the demonstrations in their countries. First informations from Pakistan, Canada, United States, Australia, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Germany, France, Great-Britain…
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FRANCE Independent and Democratic Workers’ Party (POID): May Day Manifesto
Comrades, On this May 1st, 2021, we salute comrades around the world who commemorate the sacrifice of the Haymarket workers in Chicago on May 1st, 1886. We salute you, comrades from India and South Africa, from Brazil and Germany, from Turkey, Algeria, China and all over the world. We salute you, our brothers and sisters…
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International Campaign « Free Mumia Abu Jamal! »
ALGERIA Mumia Abu-Jamal has just tested positive for Covid-19 by his prison doctors. – Free Mumia immediately! – Free all political prisoners! Mumia has to be hospitalised. He has just tested positive for Covid-19, and he is jailed in a completely inadequate prison infirmary. Given his age – 67 – and his liver disease (hepatitis…
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RWANDA The Open Secret of the Duclert Report
An interview with Paul Nkunzimana, honorary president of the Party of Workers and Democracy (PTD) of Burundi, author of the book Contribution à l’étude de la préhistoire et de l’histoire sociales de l’Afrique des Grands Lacs et de l’Est (Éditions du travail, 2019). In 1994, in the space of just a few months, armed groups…
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