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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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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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