Month: October 2024

The WFTU is a Trade Union Organization that advocates for the rights of workers worldwide. The WFTU's Goals include: 1)Against USA sposerd Warmonger Israel's War on Palestine, 2) Global Warming due to Usage of Fossil Fuels and Climate Change, 3) Fighting against war and its causes, 4) Working for a stable peace Improving working and living conditions, 5) Achieving better wages, 6) Reducing working hours, 7) Providing universal access to healthcare, education, and social security 8) Creating a safe and healthy work and living environment.  The WFTU works with national and industrial trade unions, as well as with other international trade union organizations. The WFTU also has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the Interna...

Ayman Baalbaki (Lebanon), Untitled, 2020. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 1 October, US Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement urging US President Joe Biden to ‘place maximum pressure on Iran and its proxies, rather than pressure Israel for a ceasefire. We need to expedite arms transfers to Israel that this administration has delayed for months, including 2,000-pound bombs, to ensure Israel has all the tools to deter these threats’. McCaul’s belligerent call came days after Israel used over eighty US-made 2,000-pound bombs and other munitions on 27 September, to strike a residential neighbourhood in Beirut and kill – amongst hundreds of civilians – Sayyed Hassan N...

By Simon Gallagher - La Marx USA Tens of thousands of dockworkers are launching a strike on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, joining Boeing workers in a rising wave of strikes rocking the country. Tens of thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Houston in Texas went on strike Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET in their first strike across the East Coast since 1977. Workers are fighting back against low and stagnant wages, demanding a 70% wage increase over six years. Long live the struggle of the port workers!! At the same time, they are fighting for better working conditions, including less demanding hours and greater safety.  From La Marx USA we say: Long live the struggle of the port workers!! The dockworkers are joining Boeing's 33,000 workers, located primarily in the area around Sea...