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It is with emotion that the POID deplores the hundreds of civilian victims, especially the young people and children whose lives have been brutally snatched away in Israel and the Gaza Strip. On 7 October, a milestone was reached. “We are at war!” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately declared. Do we need recall that the…

FRANCE Statement by the POID (Independent and Democratic Workers’ Party) National Bureau, Saturday 15 April

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Out with Macron, his pension reform and his war economy”! On 14 April, the “Constitutional Council”1 approved Macron’s counterreform of retirement pensions. In the wake of this approval, Macron hastened its enactment, despite the vast majority of the country’s rejection of this counter-reform. This is how « democracy » works under the Fifth Republic, a monarchy without…

ITALYCongress of the General Confederation of Labour (CGIL): class struggle or corporatism?

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The congress of the leading Italian trade union confederation was held from 15 to 18 March. Monica Grilli, a CGIL activist, spoke to us. In his introductory report, Secretary General Landini – reelected at the end of the congress – made some obviously justified criticisms of the policies of Meloni’s extreme right-wing government, its refusal…

HAITIThe solution must come from the Haitian people, not the US

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By Berthony Dupont, editor of Haiti Liberté (29 March) US imperialism has never disarmed or despaired in its attempts to impose, if not renew, its neo-colonial domination over Haiti. The entire history of our relations has been marked by harrowing situations, created to counter our independence and emancipation. From coups d’état to bloody coups de…

AFGHANISTAN « Don’t let the Taliban take us back to the stone age!”

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Hasina Sadet, an activist of the Radical Left of Afghanistan (LRA), spoke at the meeting of the POID Working Women’s Commission on 11 March in Paris. She spoke about the situation of Afghan women since the US administration organised the return to power of the fundamentalist Taliban religious militia in August 2021. Can you tell…

A new phase of warfare threatens

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An article by Dominique Ferré in the Tribune des travailleurs (France) The clouds are gathering in the sky over Ukraine. The melting of the snow has prompted each side to prepare its offensive. On the Russian side, after having sent 300,000 « mobilised » citizens into battle, decimated by the fighting, Putin’s regime plans to mobilise 400,000…

FRANCE To block Macron’s coup: general strike! A POID (Democratic and Independent Workers’ Party) leaflet

Mar 28, 2023

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On this March 16, Macron resorted to a coup and forced through his project of destructive pension reform. On March 16, the Fifth Republic displayed every facet of its anti-democratic make-up. Thus, a law that no one passed could be imposed and could destroy the pension rights of millions of workers. Thus, in defiance of…

**GREECE “They were students! Down with this government of murderers!”**

Mar 28, 2023

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in Grèce

“Call me when you get there”: this has become the iconic phrase of the revolt that has erupted since the February 28 train accident that claimed the lives of fifty-seven passengers, mainly students. 65,000 workers and youth demonstrated on 8 March throughout Greece. In Athens, Syntagma Square, just in front of the Parliament, echoed the…

March 8 in Afghanistan

Mar 28, 2023

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