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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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TURKEY Call for solidarity with BODE‑DOĞRUSAN workers
BODE-DOĞRUSAN is an automotive subsidiary industry company with German partnership located in Bursa, which is the city where the automotive and metal industry concentrates, stronghold of the Turk-Metal Union, affiliated with Turk-Is Confederation. Bodo Bode workers have signed up for membership at the Turk-Metal Union and this week a great mobbing has started after the…
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Invitation for a European Workers’ and Youth Meeting in defence of pension systems, jobs and public services
Dear Comrades, Almost one year ago, an internationalist rally against privatisation, deregulation and insecure work took place in Strasbourg (France), on 11 May 2019 under the slogan “ This Europe is not our Europe “ . The rally ended with a call to prepare in each country an indictment of the policy of privatisation promoted…
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INDIA “Are We Citizens In Our Own Country? Come Out and Fight to Stop the CAA, NPR and NRC!”
An appeal, reproduced below, received from Comrade N. Vasudevan Comrades, People across India have been protesting against the government since 5 August 2019. The protests initially, against the lockdown in Kashmir after the abrogation of article 370, were localised, but from December 2019 protests have become widespread and vociferous against the amendment to the Citizenship…
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ALGERIA Communiqué of the IWC Coordinators
(11 February 2020) — We have been informed that on the evening of 10 February, the Court of Appeals of the Military Court of Blida (Algeria) decided to release Louisa Hanoune, the general secretary of the Algerian Workers Party, who had been imprisoned since 9 May 2019 after spending nine months in prison. Among many…
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CHINA “They Have Been Slow to Manage the Crisis, but Quick to Silence the People”
“They have been slow to manage the crisis, but quick to silence the people” is how a Chinese internet user recapped the attitude of the Wuhan town officials in the face of the situation created by the coronavirus epidemic, which continues to spread and increase in the number of human lives lost. The first case…
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