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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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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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