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Scholz’s policies pave the way for the far right
File produced by our comrades at the newspaper Freie Plattform fur Arbeiterpolitik(Free Platform for Workers’ Politics) On September 1, regional elections were held in the eastern German Länder of Saxony and Thuringia, home to more than six million people. With a rising turnout (73%), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party came out well ahead…
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Social devastation and anti-immigrant demagoguery
Is it possible to understand the outcome of the elections without looking at the social reality in eastern Germany? After the people and the workers imposed German reunification in 1989, the “holy alliance” of Helmut Kohl’s government (CDU) with the “socialist’ leaders” of the SPD and the former bureaucrats of the East, converted to the…
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2,898 dollars per second
2,898 dollars per second. According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), this is how much the nine nuclear-armed states* spent in 2023 on developing their nuclear arsenal, i.e., 85 billion euros (91.4 billion dollars), a 30% plus increase. « A nuclear arms race is underway« , Melissa Parke of ICAN says. 2,100 nuclear warheads…
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Biden continues funding the genocide
No one is surprised any more: the Israeli bombardment of Gaza has caused the deaths of one hundred and eight journalists. Most of these killings were deliberate, according to an investigation by twelve international media, including the daily Le Monde, which no one suspects of being hostile to Israel. No one is surprised any more:…
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« Activists are being criminalised »
La Tribune des travailleurs interviewed Louise Chauchat, the lawyer for Brenda Wanabo, married name Ipézé. A Kanak pro-independence activist and spokesperson for the Cellule de coordination des actions de ter- rain (CCAT – coordinating group for groundwork action), she is currently held in police custody in Dijon (France). How serious are the charges against these…
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Macron unleashes colonial repression
On 12 June, Macron announced the « suspension » of the constitutional law « unfreezing » New Caledonia’s provincial electorate. This law was widely rejected, since its unconcealed aim is to make the colonised Kanak people a minority in their own country. The « suspension » announced by Macron may thus have appeared to the workers and the Kanak people as…
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INDIA Election 2024: Modi Lost Single Party Majority After 10 Year Rule
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party – Indian Peoples Party) had secured 303 out of the 543 parliament seats in the 2019 elections. In addition, BJP received support from some like-minded parties thus securing a brute majority. Virtually no space was left for the opposition. Parliament norms were grossly ignored. Modi rule…
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INDIA The population is faced with an unprecedented heatwave and government negligence
May 2024 found people in India facing unprecedented heat-stroke killing over 165 people till June 1. May 31 was the hottest day in Delhi in 157 years. Reports of deaths come every day from different parts of the country, mainly from Delhi and Northern India. 67 died of heat-stroke in Odissa and 9 in Bihar…
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No to the escalation of war! No to war against the Chinese people! French troops out of the South China Sea!
Joint statement by the Workers’ Party /Parti des travailleurs (France) and the Partido Manggagawa (Philippines) ⦁ On 21 April, 11,000 American soldiers and 5,000 Filipino military personnel engaged in joint military manoeuvres with Operation Balikatan. For the first time, these manoeuvres are taking place beyond Philippine territorial waters towards China. For the first time, French…
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Message from the International Workers’ Committee to the workers of Benin
The International Workers’ Committee condemns the police and judicial repression of Beninese workers. The International Workers’ Committee has been informed by its correspondents in Benin of the ban on the May 1st 2024 demonstration, organized by the central trade unions, in particular the CSTB, « against the high cost of living, hunger, attacks on freedoms and…
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