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Successful internationalist rally held in Strasbourg (France) STRASBOURG APPEAL May 11, 2019
We, 600 workers, labour activists and youth from Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland and Turkey, meeting in Strasbourg on 11 May 2019 within sight of the European “Parliament” (1) , hereby declare: This Europe is not our Europe! As we said at the European Workers Conference (Paris, 12-13 May…
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May Day 2019: One and Only One Working Class!
Since the 1889 Congress of the Workers International, the 1st of May has been the international day of the workers’ struggle, in honour of the Chicago martyrs, that is, the U.S. workers who had been executed for having fought for an eight-hour workday. One hundred and thirty years later, throughout the world, workers still mobilise…
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BRAZIL “Lula Is a Political Prisoner”
The Newsletter of the Paris Comité Lula Livre (Free Lula Committee)* has published an interview with André Machado, president of the PT (Workers Party) committee in the city of Curitiba, State of Paraná, where Lula has been imprisoned for over a year now. What happened in Curitiba on 7 April , one year after Lula…
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UNITED STATES Letter To Governor Cuomo Demanding Freedom For Jalil Muntaqim
We the undersigned offer our strongest support for the release of Jalil Muntaqim (aka Anthony Bottom) on parole. We also ask that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo commute his sentence to time served. Lire
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HAITI « A Victory Over Trump’s Racist Policies »
“TPS: Victory Over Trump!” was the headline of the weekly Haïti Liberté on 17 April 2019. Indeed, it is not every day that Trump — the supreme head of U.S. imperialism — is forced to back down. Yet that is what just happened in the United States. On 11 April, a federal court judge ruled…
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There is no place for falsification in the labour movement
In our two previous newsletters, we published the list of 480 labour movement activists of every background from 39 countries who declared they supported the letter of clarification published by Daniel Gluckstein, editor of La Tribune des Travailleurs, against the slanderous campaign targeting the POID launched by Benoît Lahouze who claims to be acting on…
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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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