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« Joining forces to help political prisoners… »
letter from prison by Boris Kagarlitsky Putin’s regime is multiplying convictions, prison sentences and repressive measures. In addition to liberal opposition figures and any citizen who publicly expresses his or her rejection of the war in Ukraine, repression is hitting working-class and socialist organizations and activists harder every day. For example, the Russian Socialist Movement…
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Not one penny, not one weapon, not one man for the war!
The Parti des Travailleurs, the Workers’ Party of France, declares: While Macron multiplies his declarations on the engagement of French troops in Ukraine, the Chief of Staff of the French Army, General Pierre Schill, has announced that the army « stands ready whatever the evolution of the international situation » and that it « is prepared for the…
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63,000 dead on the roads of exile in 10 years
Over the last ten years, 63,000 refugees have died on the road to exile. More than half of them, 36,000, died in shipwrecks, including 27,000 in the Mediterranean, according to a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM points out that the actual figures must be much higher, given that collecting reliable…
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Talon seeks to divide the peoples of Togo and Benin
President Patrice Talon is shutting down one border crossing after another between villages on the Benin-Togo border, building veritable walls of granite blocks. Village populations and families are separated on either side of the border, prevented from accessing their fields, and all trade is blocked. With these closures, Talon is seeking to turn people against…
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Niger breaks off military cooperation with the USA
The July 2023 coup in Niger received some popular support when the junta, dubbed the Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, (CNSP), broke off military cooperation agreements with France. French troops were seen as the guarantors of the plundering of the country by multinationals such…
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Attacks and intimidation against the trade union movement
While the military government in Burkina Faso has driven French troops out of the country and broken with ECOWAS, which was strangling the economy, it has also at the same time engaged in dangerous practices against democracy and workers. At a conference on 24 March, the spokesman for the CGT-B trade union center denounced these…
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A determination to break
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected in the first round of the presidential election with 54.28% of the vote. It was a slap in the face for the incumbent president, Macky Sall, whose candidate was swept aside, while his coalition exploded in mid-air, against a backdrop of disputes over the award of concessions for new offshore…
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Gaza: famine, one of the weapons of genocide
« In Gaza today, we can clearly speak of famine« , says Jean-Pierre Delomier, deputy director of operations for Handicap International (RFI, 25 March), as « ceaseless bombing » continue. Back from Rafah – in the south of the Gaza Strip, where 1.4 million refugees driven out by the Israeli army are packed together – Jean-Pierre Delomier says: « Five…
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Two years after the popular uprising, the same questions remain
Two years ago, at the end of March 2022, tens of thousands of workers and young people stormed the residence of President Rajapaksa, who was doing the dirty work for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and they kicked him from power. For lack of a political alternative, successive governments have prolonged the country’s subordination to…
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Who wants to ban TikTok and why?
The well-known Chinese application TikTok, popular with young people – used by 1.2 billion people worldwide – is being targeted by the United States. US Congressmen, both Democrat and Republican, are preparing to vote to ban it in the United States on the pretext of « national security« . A ban supported by both Biden and Trump.…
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