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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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INDIA Protest against CAA in India — From Nambiath Vasudevan, coordinator of the International Workers Committee against war and exploitation, for a workers International (IWC)
Modi government is hell bent in going ahead with the amended Indian Citizenship Act. Government is opposed to hold any dialogue with protesters. That means BJP wants to amend the constitutional guarantee that citizenship in India will not be decided based on religion. In the circumstances arising in India Modi law can be reversed only…
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UNITED STATES The following interview with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer of Black Alliance for Peace, was conducted on January 26, by Alan Benjamin, editorial board member of The Organizer newspaper.
Question: Could you tell us about the Global Day of Action yesterday [January 25] and why Black Alliance for Peace not only participated but played a leadership role in building this antiwar protest? Ajamu Baraka: It was a positive development to see that people came out across the United States in the tens of thousands…
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UNITED STATES «The American People Refuse To Go To War!» Interview with Nancy Wohlforth, Co-Convener of US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
Donald Trump took the world to the brink of a major, frontal armed war with Iran. While the crisis situation appears to have died down, it could flare up again at any moment. What is your assessment of what has transpired over the past few weeks? Trump began the war escalation against Iran when he…
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CHILE Stop the repression of secondary school students and the main leaders of the ACES (Coordinating Assembly of Secondary school Students) by the Chilean government!
Faced with the repression of its main spokespersons, mainly through the application of the Domestic Security Act – which in specific cases is a law against terrorism – against Víctor Chanfreau, we declare the following : 1. We condemn the systematic repression of social protest by the Chilean government, and we are addressing all of…
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AUSTRALIA Fires In Australia
Fires in Australia that began in July have increased to the present day. Climatic conditions have produced temperatures of 48° celsius, or 118 degrees Farenheit, without respite. In these conditions the firefighters have been overwhelmed by the amount and levels of destruction attained. An emergency control agency has been set up, and international assistance from…
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