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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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A “genuine May Day” for peace between people
This year will see “a genuine May Day », despite the repression. Far from the regime’s « Spring and Labour Day » festivities, Novosibirsk activists from the « Krasny Povorot » (Red Turn) media and the Organisation of Internationalist Communists (OIC) are organising together an authorised rally in the large Siberian city. Their flyer reads: « At this rally, you will…
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Campuses rise up against « Genocide Joe”
Report from Columbia University (New York)by our correspondent, Alan Benjamin, editor of Socialist Organizer. A vast movement has ignited the campuses. Students and teachers are mobilising against « Genocide Joe » (Biden) and demanding an end to all US military and financial aid to Israel. Unheard of since the Vietnam War. Mass demonstrations against the genocide in…
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How Biden got 361 billion dollars voted for the war in Ukraine in one day
On 20 April, Biden had 95 billion dollars voted for additional military spending, including 61 billion for Ukraine. « Most of the money will go to the US army and the country’s defence companies » (Les Échos, 22 April).On that day actually, Biden had 361 billion dollars voted for the war. Responding to Biden’s request, the US…
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Record global military spending in 2023. And Biden adds US$95 billion for war!
Record broken in 2023! According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI, April 22), global military spending rose by 6.8% to US$2.4 trillion. Never before have such sums been devoted to military budgets! Billions plundered from public services, benefiting the major companies in the arms industry (a market dominated by U.S. companies). The U.S.…
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Joint initiative by Ukrainian and Russian activists “Against the imperialist warof the oligarchs and capitalists!”
Young international activists from Russia and Ukraine, emigrants or refugees in Europe, met on the morning of Saturday April 20. At the end of their discussion, they decided to launch a “joint initiative of Ukrainian and Russian internationalist activists against war and exploitation”. La Tribune des Travailleurs has published their founding declaration (in Russian and…
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