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Netanyahu wants war
« It was the Iranians who attacked Israel« , boldly declared Séjourné, French president Macron’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, on April 14. He had to justify French participation in Israel’s defense, when Iran fired 300 missiles on the night of April 13-14. « Iran’s fault »? The facts indicate otherwise. Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, Netanyahu…
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« It is impossible to quantify the suffering in Gaza »
Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in Haaretz (April 10): « Due to the limits of the human imagination (as opposed to the imagination of warmongers and arms manufacturers), and in the absence of a whole new dictionary, there is no real way to describe the destruction and loss suffered in Gaza after six months of war.“In…
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Free the imprisoned women activists!
The Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women reports on the continuing repression by the Taliban (reinstalled in power by the US administration in August 2021) of women fighting against its obscurantist politics. On March 27, in Kabul, armed Taliban stormed the home of the Rezaei family, arresting three sisters aged 25, 17 and 14 and their…
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Unconditionally in favor of the Kanak people’s right to self-determination
Unconditionally in favor of the Kanak people’s right to self-determination Kanaky – the land of the Kanak people – has been under French colonization since 1853. At the end of the 1980s, the colonized Kanak people obtained, at least on paper, recognition of their right to self-determination, and a freeze on the electoral body for…
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A full-scale « conscript hunt » in towns and villages
Volodymyr Zelensky enacted several laws that considerably tightened the conditions for mobilization. One lowers the minimum age for soldiers sent to the front from 27 to 25. Another abolishes a whole series of medical exemptions and creates a database to combat draft dodgers. Other bills are due to be voted on by the Rada (Parliament)…
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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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