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UNITED STATES Labor’s Resurgence, Bernie Sanders, the DSA and the Fight for Independent Working-Class Politics Today
An Interview with The Organizer Editorial Board Member Alan Benjamin (part I) Question: There has been considerable talk in recent months about a resurgence of the labor movement in the United States. Could you tell us about this? Alan Benjamin: No doubt about it: Labor is rising. In February 2018, a teachers’ strike wave erupted…
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PAKISTAN APTUF (All Pakistan Trade Union Federation) India’s decision to revoke Article 370 is just another chapter in Kashmir’s long history of imperial oppression.
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation hold a protest rally to liberate Kashmiris by the attack extremist political party BJP. More than 500 workers gathered and raised slogans against the Modi government brutality on Kashmiris Children’s, women’s and youth and issued a surprise executive decree stripping away the autonomy that the state of Jammu and Kashmir…
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AZANIA Xenophobia: An outcome of narrow nationalism Black Republic Newspaper
In the June 2018 issue number 10 of the Black Republic editorial, we raised the question “What levels of barbarism are they prepared to go to?”, in reference to the migration of people from war ravaged states in Africa and the Middle East, to Europe. The Mediterranean had at that time, become the graveyard of…
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ALGERIA Yes to the Sovereign Constituent Assembly! No to Presidential Elections!
An interview with Abdelkader Bentaleb, activist of the Organisation Committee of the Internationalist Socialists of Algeria (COSI) The last issue of you publication, Minbar el Oummel, asserts that the alternative is “presidential elections or Constituent Assembly”. Why? The head of the army, who is exercising the “real power”, has just announced that presidential elections will…
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MOROCCO After the Tragic Death of 8 People in Taroudant Natural or Political Disaster?
In this country, every time there is a flood or an earthquake, every time there is a “natural” incident or disaster, poor people – often young people – lose their lives. But are these really natural disasters, or are they political disasters? Several weeks after the tragic deaths of 40 young “clandestine” immigration seekers in…
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INDIA « Kashmiris’ legitimate rights must be restored ! » A letter from Nambiath Vasudevan
A letter from Nambiath Vasudevan, trade-union activist and coordinator of the International Committee against War and Exploitation, for the Workers’ International (IWC). Kashmir became a part of India through an instrument of accession signed between the then Kashmir King and the government of India. India had agreed to a special status for Kashmir and this…
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PAKISTAN « Trade unions should play their important role to unionize home based workers » An article by Samina Fayyaz, Joint Secretary, Home based workers’ union
The women working as home-based workers are working in very difficult situations. There are hundreds of women workers engaged in industrial labor from their homes on an informal and piece-rate basis. The labor outsourced to women includes producing bangles, garments, envelopes, plastic toys, shoe making, stitching suits, embroidery, food items, etc., as well as packaging…
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CHINA “The Strike as an Efficient Means for Imposing Social Change” Ming Lam, head of international relations at the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), speaks out
The current situation is the result of the government’s will not to respond to the demands of the population, and particularly not to withdraw the draft bill on extradition. From that point, the citizens called for the organisation of another general strike. Being the largest independent trade union confederation, the HKCTU has totally supported this…
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UNITED STATES Appeal to Free All Political Prisoners in Algeria
(updated on August 8, 2019) For close to six months, across Algeria, millions of people have taken to the streets in weekly protest actions to express their deep aspiration for change, chanting: « System Clear Out! Popular Sovereignty! » And as the mobilizations increased in numbers, so, too, the repression intensified against political activists of all political…
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GREECE Elections: a pyrrhic victory for the right-wing New Democracy party
Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his right-wing New Democracy (ND) party will be able to be alone at the helm thanks to the advantage given to the party which made it first at the post at the first round of the general elections on July 7th. Indeed, ND reaps almost 40 % of the votes (and 158…
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