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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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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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