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Trump’s election: a defeat for the policy of the leaderships of the labour movement
Statement by the Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the 4th International (OCRFI) The election of Trump on 5 November 2024 in the United States is the expression of the fact that for the dominant factions of the bourgeoisie in the most powerful capitalist country in the world, the traditional means of its domination are…
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Afghan women more at risk than ever
In two reports dated 26 and 30 October, the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women (SMAW) warned us of the serious threats posed by the Taliban regime to women and women activists. The regime has also just promulgated new measures such as banning women from talking to each other or reciting the Koran. Since 20 October,…
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Volkswagen: “And now, it is anger”
Dossier compiled by H.-W. Shuster Volkswagen announces tens of thousands of job cuts to boost profits In Germany, 120,000 workers are on the payroll of Volkswagen (VW) car manufacturer, at its ten production sites. Ninety-five per cent of these workers are members of IG Metall union. In its opposing the IG Metall demand for a…
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Proposal from the VIIth Congress of the Workers’ Party (France)
Mandated by its VIIth National Congress (19-20 October 2024), the Workers’ Party states: It proposes to all those who share its general line to convene, together and as soon as possible, an international initiative against war and exploitation, for a Workers’ International.
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“A new colonial war that does not speak its name”
On 19 September, in the tribe of Saint-Louis, two young Kanak men aged 29 and 30 were shot dead by the GIGN (i.e., the Groupe d’intervention de la gendarmerie nationale). The FLNKS (in French, the Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste) denounced ‘the barbaric and humiliating methods used by the police, who did not…
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Martinique rises up against “the high cost of living”
Roadblocks and demons- trations against “the high cost of living” are on the increase. The préfecture has declared a curfew. Workers explained: “The demonstrations that were called were meant to be peaceful, but in very poor districts, people cannot take it any more and the children are idle, so things are getting out of hand.…
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“Workers’ unity against Höcke, the AfD and the bourgeois parties! »
An appeal from workers’ activists in Thuringia An appeal by workers‘ activists, launched several weeks ago on the initiative of Peter Hintermeier (IG Metall) and Klaus Schüller (railway unionist), both members of the “Committee for a Workers Party”, proposes a different policy, the only one that can stand in the way of social devastation, war…
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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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