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PHILIPPINES We Need To Speak Against The Bloody Slaughter of Activists A statement by the Partido Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines)
Two days after President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his « kill, kill them all » speech last March 7, 2021, 9 activists felt to the ground dead. Any extra-judicial killing (EJK) diminishes us all, it kills part of our humanity. Today, news report said that police have killed 9 and arrested 6 believed to be with activist groups…
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TUNISIA In the call centers of Téléperformance, general assemblies prepare the strike
An interview with Ali Ourak, General Secretary of the Information and Communication Technolo gies Union of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), a worker at Téléperformance Tunisia. What are the working conditions in call Téléperformance arrived in Tunisia in centres? 2001 and now employs 8,300 people in the country’s seven call centres. In the early…
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KAZAKHSTAN Workers’ strikes on the rise
In Kazakhstan (the largest and most industrialised of the former Soviet republics in Central Asia), there has been an increase in strikes in recent months, both in foreign multinationals and in the companies of local oligarchs. In December 2020, for example, machinists at the transport company KM Tranco stopped work, with 300 of them gathering…
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International Campaign Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal
The international campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal launched by the International Workers Committee Against War and Exploitation, For a Workers International (IWC) is under way. The IWC Campaign Appeal, issued on March 6, has now received support from labor and democratic rights organizations and activists in countries the world over. It is our contribution to…
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Mumia’s covid-19 Infection Confirmed Transfer Mumia to a Hospital for Proper Medical care!
Urgent message from the United States of America, regarding the threats on the life of Mumia Abu Jamal, Black activist jailed in the death row since 1982. Please circulate broadly this message inviting all democratic and workers organisations to address US authorities to free Mumia Abu Jamal immediately.
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CHINA/HONG KONG Call for support of Hong Kong’s independent labour movement launched by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions HKCTU
Please find below, the call launched by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions HKCTU on 13 February as the trial of its General Secretary Lee Cheuk-yan is about to begin after the arrest of its President Carol Ng last month. We invite you to respond with a short message in English to hkctu@hkctu.org.hk (see…
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“Social murder…at the very least” Editorial of La Tribune des Travailleurs (Workers’ Tribune) Issue no.277 – 17 February 2021 published by the POID (Independent and democratic Workers Party)
By Daniel Gluckstein “Murder is an emotive word. In law, it requires premeditation. (…) How could “murder” apply to failures of a pandemic response? Perhaps it can’t, and never will, but it is worth considering.” This is how the editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), published at the start of this month, began. The…
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CHINA/HONG KONG Release and Drop all Charges Against all the Trade Unionists Arrested!
On the morning of January 6, 2021, as part of a wave of arrests, Carol Ng, president of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Winnie Yu Wai-ming, president of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance Trade Union, and other HKCTU activists were arrested. An interview with Carol Ng, president of the Hong Kong Confederation…
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CHINA/HONG-KONG « The severe attack against the resistant force will accumulate the anger of the society » — Chan Ka Wai, Executive Director, Labour Action China, Hong Kong
The Chinese Government wishes to devastate the resistant force in Hong Kong by the controversal Ordiance of Public Order. In the past, it was almost not used anymore, but now it is heavily used to limit the civil rights and to charge the activists. Moreover, it is a way to stop active social activists to…
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THAILAND “The people want a political reform, and the first step is to oust the military junta”
It began among students and young people. The military regime that has been in place since 2014 (1) imposed a dark period for the democratic movement. The « flash mobs » of February 2020 (2) gave new hope. The second stage of the mobilization took place in the summer of 2020, when new strata of students and…
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