AFGHANISTAN Human rights and NATO’s double standards
The longest war of the US and NATO occupiers has been defeated in Afghanistan. This unequal war has not only inflicted irreparable human casualties on the people of [...]
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MAURITIUS A Historical Mass Gathering
A historical popular mass gathering took place on 29 August following the oil spill that devastated the coasts of the island of Mauritius after a Japanese cargo began leaking [...]
UNITED STATES « It’s impossible to put an end to racism without fighting to end capitalism »
Discussion between Alan Benjamin, member of the Steering Committee of Socialist Organizer (which in the United States supports the positions of the Organizing Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International), and Nnamdi Lumumba, co-convener of the Ujima People's Progress Party (Black working class organization in Baltimore, Maryland). [...]
PERU Solidarity with the workers at BSH Electrodomesticos S.A.C.
Labour activists in Peru have informed us of the facts reported below concerning the household appliance factory BSH Electrodomesticos S.A.C., a subsidiary of a major German group, located in Callao, Peru. [...]
UNITED STATES “There is a strong need for independent politics” An interview with Clarence Thomas, former Secretary Treasurer of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10, on the West Coast of the United States
All 29 ports on the West Coast, including the Port of Vancouver in Canada, were shut down for eight hours to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The outpouring of workers and youth was huge, far exceeding any of our expectations; some estimates place the turnout as high as 25,000 people. A number of unions, such as SEIU Local 1021, joined our effort. READ MORE... [...]
CHINA/HONG KONG New threats against the democratic rights of workers An interview with Cho Ming Lam, labour activist
The COVID – 19 crisis has seen the growth of a significant offensive against workers’ rights and democratic freedoms. As is the case elsewhere in the world, the conditions for lay-offs and firings have become more “flexible”. At the same time, in addition to the banning of gatherings, surveillance of the population has been exacerbated, thanks to new technologies. Inhabitants are more and more “tracked” for the sake of fighting the virus. READ MORE... [...]
Black Lives Matter! An editorial of La Tribune des travailleurs (Workers’ Tribune) by Daniel Gluckstein
“I’m here because my life matters” – that is how one Black woman explained her presence in the thick of the demonstration in New York on 1 June. She added: “I have the right to live. They don’t think so. So I will come here every day until they understand (...). This has been going on too long: you can’t oppress us and then dictate to us how we should react.”
Yes, Black people in the United States have the legitimate right to react as they see fit, to protest the way they want to and to organise as they judge it necessary. [...]
USA-GERMANY Amazon : Stop firing ! Start listening!
Seven workers, men and women, have been fired by the Amazon management in the U.S. over the past few weeks on false pretences, because they had defended their rights and openly stated their views. [...]
MEXICO Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested!
Dear comrades of the International Workers Committee: Leader of Movement 20/32 and lawyer of the National Independent Union of Industrial and Service Workers [...]
INDIA May 22 : Nation wide protest, by Nambiath Vasudevan
On May 22, in a symbolic protest, a few trade union leaders assembled near the resting place of Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi. Government denied permission for assembly and [...]
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