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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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CHILE Constituent Assembly, Now!
Neither President Piñera’s state of siege — with the army and police in the streets, the 18 dead, and the hundreds of wounded and nearly 2,000 arrests — nor the announcement of social measures aimed at calming things down, have had the least effect in quelling the protests. Pushed by the mobilisations from below, the…
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HAITI « This popular uprising » which the « servile press » does not want to see (Haïti Liberté)
While “a continuous rain of demonstrations” has been falling on Haiti, aimed at getting rid of the illegitimate president, Jovenel Moïse, who only has been able to remain in power thanks to the occupation of U.N. troops, the capitalist Western press continues to ignore this popular uprising. “The popular events that are taking place in…
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CATALONIA A human tide against the repression and for the Republic
To all those who said that it is dead and buried, the human tide that has surged and swept the country has answered: “The Catalan Republic is still here!” On 14 October, nine Catalan leaders were placed on trial and given prison sentences of from 9 to 13 years for “sedition”. It was a sentence…
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CHINA Address to our sister and brother workers and youth in China
We are labour activists and defenders of democratic rights. We send our fraternal greetings to the workers and youth in China. We wish to express our solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of youth and workers who have been marching in demonstrations in Hong Kong for the past four months, and with the hundreds of…
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Communiqué of the International Youth Alliance for Socialism Release the young activists arrested in Algeria immediately!
On Wednesday 9 October, Youth Action Rally (RAJ) President Abdelouhab Fersaoui was arrested by police at the end of a rally organized in front of the Algiers court house to demand the release of five other leaders of that organisation, which is very active in the Hirak (popular movement). They have been charged with threatening…
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CATALONIA Communiqué of the Independent Democratic Workers Party (POID) of France Their Conviction Is Shameful: Free the Catalan Leaders Now! Respect for the Right of the Catalan People to Free Themselves from the Francoist Monarchy and to Establish their Catalan Republic!
The Independent Democratic Workers Party (POID) of France expresses its strongest protest against the verdict of 9 years to 13 years in prison against the Catalan leaders, some of whom have been imprisoned for more than two years. This verdict is a perfect expression of the nature of the monarchy’s institutions, its 1978 Constitution, and…
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AFGHANISTAN Communiqué of the Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA) By lowest participation, people reject US-Nato sponsored elections in Afghanistan
On September 28, 2019 there were presidential elections in Afghanistan. The elections were sponsored and fully influenced by US and its partners in Afghanistan to give so-called legitimacy to a puppet regime in Afghanistan. There were in total 18 candidates including the current president Ashraf Ghani, Executive Direct Abdullah Abdullah and “Butcher of Kabul” Gulbaden…
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PAKISTAN PTI government is following US Imperialism Policies to Privatize state-owned companies in Pakistan
The federal government has decided to privatise 49 organisations within the next five years. The decision was made in a session of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Privatisation. The Privatisation Ministry said that 15 companies had been taken out of the privatisation list and eight had been added to it. Pakistan is in discussion…
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HAITI Long Live the People’s Uprising for Democracy and Sovereignty!
For two weeks now, the people en masse have been coming out into the streets in Port-au-Prince and the other major towns of Haiti, to demand an end to President Jovenel Moïse’s government, his PHTK party, and his antiworker and anti-popular policies. The masses –with the workers in the forefront – want an end to…
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