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BOLIVIA Bolivia goes to the polls in October to elect its President
Evo Morales won the presidential elections of 2005, 2009 and 2014. Yet with the Trump administration’s interventionist agenda in Latin America, there is growing concern that Bolivia is now in its sights too. President Morales has acted to recover Bolivia’s wealth, including its oil and gas industries, from foreign corporations, gaining over $30 billion in…
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ALGERIA Algerian Workers Speak Out: “The UGTA Belongs to the Workers, Not the Careerists!”
An exclusive report published in Minbar El Oummel (Workers Tribune) n° 11, April 22, on the 17 April gathering in front of the UGTA trade union headquarters Thousands of workers answered positively to the national call for mobilisation launched by the “free” trade unionists, “to liberate the UGTA”, “to clean up the union” and “to…
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“Falsification has no place in the labour movement” (new list) Endorsements by French activists
In issue 119 of the IWC Newsletter we published the list of 243 labour movement activists from all backgrounds in 39 countries who expressed solidarity with Daniel Gluckstein, editor of La Tribune des travailleurs, against the campaign of falsification. This week we publish the list of 237 French activists who say : “Falsification has no…
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FRANCE Internationalist Rally in Strasbourg, May 11 2019 Down with the antidemocratic institutions of the European Union! A call from the National Steering Committee of the POID (Independent and Democratic Workers Party)
To Working people, young people and activists of all political horizons in the labour movement We are calling on you to gather in Strasbourg next May 11, at a grand internationalist rally (1). The so-called European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, a parliament that is in reality but a decoration to disguise the anti- democratic, anti-labour,…
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MOROCCO Long live the Algerian revolution! Up with the fight for the Maghreb federation of sovereign and free nations, free from oppression and exploitation! A declaration of the editorial board of the Tribune des Travailleurs (Workers Tribune – Morocco)
The people and workers of Morocco have followed your revolutionary mobilisation with particular attention and enthusiasm. You have mobilised to build a democratic Algeria and a Constituent Assembly that will institute the sovereignty of our brother people of Algeria. The fates of our sister peoples have been bound together for centuries upon centuries for historical…
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ALGERIA Declaration of the Organising Committee of the Internationalist Socialists (COSI) After Bouteflika’s Resignation: « Down with the Regime! Let the People Speak! Sovereign Constituent Assembly! Let’s Get Organized! »
Abdelaziz Bouteflika is no longer president of the Republic as of Tuesday, April 2, 2019. This is the first victory of the entire people since they erupted onto the streets of the country’s cities and municipalities on February 22 to oppose « a fifth term » of the incumbent president. It’s a first victory only because all…
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For workers’ democracy and free discussion in the labour movement, against falsifications (2)
In our last letter, we published a clarification by Daniel Gluckstein concerning the falsification of his positions, as well as a list of British activists who have associated themselves with this clarification. This week we are reporting on the signatures that have poured in internationally.
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For workers’ democracy and free discussion in the labour movement, against falsifications
The international labour movement can live and achieve its tasks only if it recognises the legitimacy of free discussion, workers’ democracy, and the right of all activists, currents and organisations within its framework to freely defend their point of view. The International Workers’ Committee Against War and Exploitation, For the Workers’ International (IWC), which was…
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CHINA Document Non-stop repression against Chinese labour activists since 2015
The International Workers Committee has been informed of a document being circulated by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), informing the international labour movement that “since 2015, the labour movement in China has entered a harsh winter. After a series of crackdowns, it is evident that the Chinese government’s suppression of the labour…
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BRAZIL Against the « Reform » of Retirement Pensions
In Curitiba, the call from the CUT (Central Unica dos Trabalhodores the Unified Workers’ Central) to form committees of resistance against the « reform » of retirement pensions has been taken seriously. The far-right Bolsonaro government has announced publicly its plan for the counter-reform of the “Previdencia” (retirement pensions and healthcare). In Curitiba (in the state of…
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