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BURUNDI A census? The working class has no ethnicity
Imperialism is always on the lookout for ways to continue the demolition of the productive forces, starting with the working class and its organizations. On October 26, 2020, a nationwide census of civil servants began, as announced by the Minister of Public Administration. One hundred and nine (109) questions were asked to the workers in…
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UNITED STATES A massive repudiation of Trump… which makes independent workers’ politics more necessary than ever…
On November 7, the French POID had intended to organize a mass rally. The rally was not authorized by the authorities. The POID then said they wished to demonstrate. The demonstration was banned. A video rally was organised with the participation of thousands of workers. Comrade Alan Benjamin editor of Socialist Organizer (Etats-Unis) spoke at…
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BOLIVIA “A Genuine Victory of the People” — Interview with a Bolivian Labour Activist from El Alto about the Meaning of the October 18 Presidential Election
What is your assessment of the outcome of the October 18 presidential election that saw the defeat of the candidates who had supported the November 2019 military coup “Made in the USA” and overthrown President Evo Morales? The election marked a genuine victory of the Bolivian people. It was an overwhelming vote against the right-wing,…
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BELARUS « The outcome of the struggle against the dictatorship depends on the working class » — Interview with a member of the strike committee of the Remontajstroy plant in the city of Soligorsk
Our correspondents sent us this interview published on October 18 in the Polymïa (“The Flame”) newsletter, which states: “The eyes of the demonstrators are focused on the companies. Few dispute that the outcome of the struggle against the dictatorship depends on the working class. All hopes are focused on Soligorsk, the ‘miners capital’ (of the…
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NIGERIA Popular uprising against police brutality and oppression
Nigeria ranks first as Africa’s economy with the largest population in the continent. Currently, an important popular uprising is under way. It started at the beginning of October launched on the social networks to denounce police brutality and has now grown to a full-scale movement against the ruling power. If the origin of the movement…
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INDIA «This was the biggest failure of the right wing Modi Government during the pandemic» Interview With Milind Ranade
Milind Ranade leads one of the largest trade unions of contract sanitation workers in Maharashtra, a state in Western India. Most of the union members are migrants and all of them belong to low caste–Dalits – (called untouchable in old days) community. It was a herculean task of organizing illiterate, hardly literate workers employed by…
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BURUNDI A new phase of the war and an escalation of arrests
Early in the morning of 23 August 2020 a group of armed men coming from the RDC (Democratic Republic of Congo) sneaked into the hills above small fishing villages along Lake Tanganyika. The governor of Rumonge has said that they are “outlaws coming from the RDC”; they killed 11 people who were carrying goods stolen…
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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 Afghanistan, but has also destroyed and damaged Afghanistan’s infrasture and social-economic foundations. Although the American invaders and their allies occupied Afghanistan under the pretext of reconstruction, democracy…
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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 tonnes of oil into the Indian Ocean. Activists of the workers’ organisation for socialism Lalit (« Struggle ») have sent us their thoughts on this event. The organisers…
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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).
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