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INDIA People Against Modi’s Move To Create Hindu India A letter from Nambiath Vasudevan
A letter from Nambiath Vasudevan, trade unionist in Mumbai (India), coordinator of the International Workers Committee against war and exploitation, for a workers international (IWC ). Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hindu right wing government passed a Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in parliament on December 11 denying citizenship to Muslim immigrants living in India.
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UNITED STATES Message to Congress: Vote ‘NO’ on NAFTA 2.0! A Comprehensive Replacement Is Required!
First published by The Organizer (USA), December 2019 It’s been called a “historic bipartisan trade pact.” Donald Trump hailed it as a “victory” for his administration and for the American people. Nancy Pelosi called it a trade agreement that is “infinitely better” than both NAFTA and Trump’s initial proposal. AFLCIO President Richard Trumka insisted that the…
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CHILE Democracy and Dictatorship Face to Face
On 11 December, the Chilean Senate passed a « constitutional accusation » against the former Minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick, following strong pressure to end impunity for murders, torture and imprisonment of demonstrators (some 30 dead, more than 300 seriously injured in the eyes, two of whom became blind, thousands of detainees). All members of the…
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INDIA No Anaj Mandi again! Nation wide strike on January 8, 2020 demanding justice for workers and labour rights
On December 8, Sunday morning national capital of India, New Delhi’s Anaj Mandi, witnessed the tragedy of 43 labourers charred into death when a five storey building housing a dozen manufacturing units engulfed in fire. Five of the dead were minors. They were poor migrant workers who had come to Delhi in search of livelihoods.…
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AFRICA African Forum On The Global Convergence Of Farmers Land, Water And Seed Struggles – West Africa (CGLTE-AO)
The African Forum on “The Role and Responsibility of Women and Youth in Land Ownership Governance according to Uses and Customs” took place at the Nyeleni Agro-Ecological Centre in Selinnkegni, in Mali, from 5 to 8 December 2019. As a reminder, this international meeting gathers delegates from the platform countries of the CGLTE-AO making up…
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IRELAND A victory against zero-hour contracts: a point of support in the fight against exploitation
Last week we published the call by 407 labour activists from 52 countries for a world conference against war and exploitation, for a Workers’ International to meet on November 5th and 6th 2020. (A new version of the list will soon be published).Among the endorsers of the call is Ciaran Campbell, who endorsers it on…
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FRANCE A strike has begun this 5th of December in France A class issue and a civilisation issue
A strike has begun this 5th of December in France for the withdrawal of the Macron government’s draft bill against the retirement pension system. No mobilisation of this size and scope has been seen in this country for over half a century. In the editorial of La Tribune des Travailleurs, the working class newspaper published…
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CHILE “It’s not about 30 pesos, it’s about 30 years”
The eruption of the workers and young people has opened a revolutionary crisis. “It’s not about 30 pesos” [the increase in the price of an underground ticket – editor’s note], say the millions of workers and youth, “it’s 30 years that we reject.” Thirty years is the period during which, after the end of Pinochet’s…
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LEBANON Protests Shake the Communitarian Institutions
Massive demonstrations have just caused Prime Minister Saad Hariri (of triple nationality — Lebanese, Saudi and French) to resign. The president has called for the formation of a “government of experts”. For nearly three weeks now, the Lebanese people have been demonstrating en masse. They are demanding radical change, the ouster of “all the political…
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UNITED STATES Teachers’ strike wave returns to Chicago
Today, October 22nd the strike of 32,500 educators, all members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), is entering its fifth day with even greater energy and determination than in September 2012, when the Chicago teachers’ strike kicked off a Teachers’ Revolt that would go on to sweep the entire nation over the next seven years.…
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