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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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Interview with Rock Haocas, member of the Confederal Board of the Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Kanak et des Exploités / Union of Kanak and exploited workers (USTKE),conducted on May 10, before the current colonial repression started.
On May 13, Macron had the Nationale Assemblée (the French parliament) pass a constitutional law « unfreezing » the electoral body for New Caledonia’s provincial elections, to include tens of thousands of voters from metropolitan France. On May 1st in Paris, hundreds of Kanak demonstrators joined Parisian workers in protesting against the unfreezing of the electoral body.…
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IMMEDIATE HALT TO THE ISRAELI OFFENSIVE AGAINST RAFAH!
Communiqué from the Parti des Travailleurs (France) For the past twenty-four hours, the Israeli air force has been stepping up its bombardment of Rafah, where crowds of 1.5 million thirsty, starving and exhausted Palestinians are crammed together. The tanks have entered Rafah, cutting off the last checkpoint that allowed the passage of scant humanitarian aid,…
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May Day Around the World
Despite scorching temperatures – 42 degrees – workers in Bangladesh gathered under the red flags of the working class on May 1st. In Dhaka and Chittagong, our correspondents from the Workers’ Democratic Party and the Textile Workers’ Trade Union Federation demanded safety in the workplace and measures against the high cost of living, but they…
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On both sides of the front, the « real May Day »
Despite war, despite repression, both in Putin’s Russia and Zelensky’s Ukraine… on both sides of the front, workers’ activists expressed the best internationalist traditions of May 1st. In Kharkiv (Ukraine), the anarchist organization Assambleia declared, on the occasion of International Workers’ Day: « Today, May 1st, we commemorate the martyrdom of the anarchist workers executed in…
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Thirty years of ‘democracy’… but still no electricity for the inhabitants of Thembelihle
Elections will be held at the end of May, thirty years after the 1994 agreements between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and those of the racist apartheid regime. For thirty years, the white capitalist minority has retained all its privi leges, while the ANC governments have denied the black majority access to…
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