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PAKISTAN Message of condolence from All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
To the family and friends of Arif Wazir Ali member, of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, brutally killed by some forces to stop their voice & struggle for their economic and basic rights but some forces don’t want peace in this province. We whole heartedly support your struggle which is ours too to bring peace to protect…
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UNITED STATES “We need conferences like this to unite our struggles”
An interview with Nnamdi Lumumba, activist of the Black workers-led Ujima People’s Progress Party in Baltimore, Maryland, and one of the 407 initiators of the World Conference against War and Exploitation, and for the Workers’ International (in Paris, 5 and 6 November). The city of Baltimore will be welcoming a national conference of activists for…
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FRANCE Wage war on the epidemic, give oneself the means to do so Statement by the Independent and Democratic Workers Party (POID)
On 12 March, French President Macron solemnly called for sacred union against coronavirus. One week later, pandemonium has spread at lightning speed. This government, and the governments that came before it, are very largely responsible – and guilty – for this expansion. The terrible lack of masks, testing kits , beds, intensive care units and…
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INDIA After the anti-muslims pogroms N. Vasudevan calls on the « mobilisation of the labour movement » in order to impose a « fair enquiry that will reveal the truth »
The disturbing tragedy unfolded in India’s capital city, New Delhi, during February 24-26, which took over 42 lives, both Muslims and Hindus, injured 200 men, women and children is a matter of serious concern. That tragedy took place after months of massive protests by the Indian people to the attempt to divide them and discriminate…
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INDIA Modi’s government bears responsibility for anti-Muslims pogroms (correspondence received from Nambiath Vasudevan)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arranged a $150 million US dollar grand reception for the US President and his family in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) where Modi was the State Chief Minister till 2014. India has a 4 million diaspora in the US. A big chunck of this is from Gujarat. In the November 2020 US election…
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CHINA/HONG KONG General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Lee Cheuk-yan arrested for questioning — Communiqué of the China Inquiry Commission
The China Inquiry Commission has been informed today of the arrest by the Hong Kong police of Lee Cheuk-yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions HKCTU, maybe for his participation in demonstrations last August. He should be summoned to appear in court on May 5. The China Inquiry Commission wants to…
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PAKISTAN The All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF) presents its platform for struggle
On 15 February, in Lahore, the trade union federation organised a rally attended by several hundred workers commemorating Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary, labour activist and former APTUF leader who died in February 2011. It was the occasion for APTUF General Secretary in her speech to pay tribute to the militant who “spent his whole life and…
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Международный комитет «За свободу фигурантов дела « Сети » (Россия)!»
10 февраля российский Приволжский окружной военный суд вынес приговор семерым молодым анархистам по так называемому «делу «Сети». За умышленное убийство в России осуждают на срок 6-15 лет в зависимости от обстоятельств. А обвиняемые, которые не сделали ни одного выстрела или взрыва, получили: — 27-летний Дмитрий Пчелинцев – 18 лет строгого режима — 23-летний Илья Шакурский…
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International Committee “Free the activists convicted in the “Network” case (Russia)!”
On 10 February, in the city of Penza (Russia), the Volga Military District Court sentenced seven young anarchists in the so called “Network” case. In Russia, premeditated murder is punishable by a sentence of six to 15 years. But the defendants, who did not fire a single shot or carry out the slightest attack, received…
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HONG KONG / CHINA “100 New Trade Unions have been created”
Ming Lam Cho is an activist of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU). He has sent this information on the situation in Hong Kong and the strengthening of worker unions since last August’s general strike, as a contribution to the preparation of the World Conference against War and Exploitation next November. Hong Kong…
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