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The new academic year is starting… with not a single girl in the classrooms
The Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women has informed us: “The Taliban officially announced the new academic year on the first day of the year 1403 corresponding to March 20, 2024. This year, like the last two years, the bell for the start of the new school year in Afghanistan was rung without the presence of…
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Le 8-Mars, de Turin à Soweto…
Nos correspondantes nous informent des rassemblements tenus à l’occasion de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes. Le 9 mars, dans le township de Freedom Park (au sud-est de Soweto, en Azanie/Afrique du Sud), une assemblée de femmes travailleuses s’est réunie à l’appel de la section azanienne de la IVe Internationale, avec une dizaine de…
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Haiti handed over to gangs: who is responsible?
Haiti has been handed over to the terror of gangs. The Western press is roiling with calls for civil war from a former policeman turned gang leader nicknamed « Barbecue ». But who is responsible for the chaos? Berthony Dupont writes the editorial in the latest issue of the anti-imperialist weekly Haïti Liberté: « The country is paralyzed.…
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March 8, from Torino to Soweto
Our correspondents report on rallies held to mark International Women’s Rights Day. On March 9, in the township of Freedom Park (south-east of Soweto, in Azania/South Africa), an assembly of women workers met at the call of the Azanian section of the 4th International, with a dozen speeches by activists of all tendencies and a…
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Women need our support
On the occasion of March 8th, the Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women sends this message from Kabul (published in full on the website of the International Committee for the Defense of Afghan Women: https://defendafghanwomen.org/) « While, since August 2021*, Afghan women have been suffering the torments of hell under the Taliban regime, the major powers and…
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Netanyahu and Biden prepare a bloodbath in Rafah
At the time of writing, Netanyahu is preparing to order the assault on Rafah. This is the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip, on the border with Egypt, which – in agreement with Israel – controls a crossing point there. Before October 7, Rafah had a population of 160,000. After four months of bombardment and…
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Why does Israel want to « kill » UNRWA?
Israel wants to liquidate the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), created in 1949. The lives of 5.9 million Palestinian refugees in 58 camps in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria depend on this organization. Thirty thousand employees run schools, dispensaries and food aid. The project has a long history. Ten years…
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“A good show is about to be staged!”
The factory closes down, the workers are organising The Kong Wai woollen knitwear factory in Huizhou, Guangdong province, has been supplying major brands for over thirty years. At its peak, Kong Wai employed over 2,000 workers, but after the 2008 layoffs during the global recession, employment continued to drop from about 900 workers in 2016…
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CHINA Mutual aid among delivery drivers
The testimonial below was first published in the Newsletter of the Commission of Inquiry in China Yang Xiaobing is a bicycle delivery driver. On last February 28, he was knocked down by a large truck while making a delivery in the east of Beijing. The result: a broken leg. Yang is part of a group…
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ARGENTINA: The working class in self-defence
In Argentina the CGT is calling a strike on 24 January against the anti-worker measures taken by Javier Milei, the far-right president. A few days after taking office, Milei published a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) amending more than 300 existing laws; it covers various aspects of the economy, finance and labour law among…
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