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The European Union-Mercosul free trade treaty: A threat to the environment and social rights
The free trade treaty recently announced by the Mercosul governments (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay) and the European Union (EU) during the G20 meeting in Japan will have a disastrous impact on the industries of the southern cone, while it will increase the opportunities of offshoring Europe’s industries. According to this treaty, which still has to…
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EUROPE Issue n°1 of the Information Bulletin published by the “European Liaison Committee Against Privatisation, Deregulation and Precarious Work” has just been released
Düsseldorf 11 June 2019 Dear comrades, A month ago, on 11 May, we met in Strasbourg for an internationalist rally. Today, we present the first issue of the Information Bulletin of the European Liaison Committee Against Privatisations, Deregulation and Precarious Labour. We are thus implementing the decision taken during the Strasbourg rally. Here is a…
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ITALY How to Defeat the Proposed “Regionalisation” of the Country?
The Italian “populist” government, an alliance between the far-right League and the Five Star Movement (M5S), has been using the 2001 reform of the Constitution to impose the division of the country into regions under the heading of a “differentiated autonomy”. The goal is to impose the regionalisation of education, healthcare, public services, national contracts…
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FRANCE Under the aegis of the struggle for the Workers International
A rally was held by the POID (Independent and Democratic Workers Party) on the 15th of June in Paris. Dominique Ferré introduced the party’s internationalist struggle to the workers and young people present at the rally. Dear friends, dear comrades, I am convinced that all of us gathered here today – all of us who…
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PAKISTAN All Pakistan Trade Union Federation « Release Ali Wazir, leader of PTM and member of Assembly, Immediately »
Statement We, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation and its hundred thousands members, are against the act of ruling government of Tehreek-e-Insaaf, arresting the political leadership of different political parties and members of Parliament on the name of corruption and on the name of terrorism. APTUF strongly condemned the arrest of leader of Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement…
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ALGERIA “For the Release of All the Political Prisoners” Interview with Salah Dabouz, lawyer
Salah Dabouz, the lawyer who defended Kamel Eddine Fekhar (who died in jail on 28 Mayafter over fifty days of hunger strike), spoke on 14 June, in Audin Square, before several hundred people who had come to attend an open-air rally against repression and for the release of those jailed for their opinions and for…
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HONG-KONG Two million take to the streets in Hong Kong
On Sunday June 9th, one million people protested in Hong Kong against a draft bill that would authorise extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China. In 1997, Hong Kong, a former British colony after the 19th century opium war, became part of the People’s Republic of China, which it is historically part of, with the…
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BRAZIL 45 Million on General Strike
No fewer than 45 million workers and young people went on strike on 14 June, throughout Brazil, while massive demonstrations were held in nearly 380 cities and towns,. All demanded the withdrawal of the « Prêvidencia » retirement pension reform, and the cancellation of the 30% reduction of the public education budget that the far-right Bolsonaro-Mourao government…
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GERMANY “Nahles is gone: the Grand Coalition must go!” An interview with Heinz-Werner Schuster, president of the Dusseldorf Workers Commission of the SPD (Social-Democrat Party)
On the 26th of May, in the European and regional elections, the SPD labour voters refused to give their votes to the Social-Democrat Party, thus expressing their rejection of the SPD’s participation in the “Grand Coalition” government with Merkel. The head of the SPD, Andreas Nahles, has just resigned. This resignation has resolved nothing, because…
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ALGERIA « The Workers are Determined to Take Back the UGTA »
An interview with Abdelkrim Messis, member of the National Committee to Reclaim the UGTA, for the Mimbar El Oummel (Workers Tribune)
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