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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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EGYPT: Pharoah al-Sisi offers himself a third presidential term
At the head of the military regime since 2014, Marshal al-Sisi has just been re-elected president for a third term until 2030. A major factor in the imperialist « order » in the region, the Egyptian army receives a billion dollars a year from the US administration. It has contributed to the blockade of the Gaza Strip…
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FRANCE The POID is now the Workers’ Party
Address by the National Federal Council of the Workers’ Party Workers and you, young people, who take the side of the exploited, we appeal to you: together, let us build the Workers’ Party, the necessary tool for ensuring that our aspirations prevail. The Workers’ Party affirms that wor kers and young people have their own demands,…
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PALESTINE Those NGOs, media and institutions that accuse the State of Israel and its American sponsors
Press review Despite two months of intense official propaganda, it is now difficult to hide the reality of the genocide of the Palestinian people. Many NGOs, media and institutions – some of them traditionally pro-Israel – are now being forced to acknowledge the reality, and to accuse the State of Israel and its American sponsors. …
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UNITED STATES The wave of strikes spreads across North America
« I’m a single mother with two children and I live paycheck to paycheck. I can’t afford a vacation, and I’m not the only one, » explains Annick, a school janitor in Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada). Along with Annick, thousands of strikers invaded a provincial government building on December 8, « because we wanted to emphasize that…
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COP 28: profits above all else
« The last few decades have shown that a large proportion of voluntary commitments have had no effect« . This is the initial assessment made by Le Monde (3 December) on the fifth day of COP 28, as the speeches by the official representatives drew to a close and negotiations began on a final agreement scheduled for…
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