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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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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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“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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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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Workers around the world stand with the Palestinian people
On January 13, workers and young people around the world responded in large numbers to the call for an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In London (Great Britain), notes our correspondent, « the people of the UK joined together in London to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people” once again. Despite the…
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“Without U.S. weapons and aid, Israel could not carry out its war”
With more than 23,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli regime since October, and 85% of the population in Gaza forcefully displaced and 93 % experiencing crisis-levels of hunger, the international solidarity movement to free Palestine and end the siege on Gaza continues to grow like never before. In the United States, activists are…
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UNITED STATES: « Workers and unions have the capacity to stop shipments » to Israel
Erica Caines, activist with Ujima People’s Progress Party(a labour and black political organization in the state of Maryland) In our previous letter we published a call from activists in labor and black organizations in the U.S. declaring that it was the responsibility of labor organization leaders to demand a halt to all military and financial…
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PALESTINE: On the real self-determination of the Palestinian people
Excerpts from a speech by Naji El Khatib, convenor of the One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI), at a meeting in the U.S. of signatories to ODSI’s Letter to Our Jewish Allies. I was born into a Palestinian refugee family in Lebanon. From my early teens, I was part of the Palestinian national movement, like many…
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC): Chaotic elections herald a new phase in the continuing war of plunder
On December 20, 100,000 candidates were vying for four elections: national legislative, provincial, municipal and presidential. Given the absence of a continuous road network, electoral material for the 44 million voters was flown in by the UN military contingent, MONUSCO (United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The eastern territories…
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