Year: 2024

Working Class of World Come United to observe 2024 Foundation Day on 3rd October. The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was founded on 3rd October 1945 in Paris. The WFTU Celebrates its Foundation Day every year as the International Day of Action.

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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…

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They Now Know What Real Bombing Means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)

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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…

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Long live the dockers’ strike in the United States!!

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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…

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Présidentielle au Sri Lanka : « Les gens voulaient dégager le système politique bourgeois d’alternance, voter en prolongeant les mobilisations contre les Rajapaksa »

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Le 23 septembre 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) a été élu président du Sri Lanka, au nom de la coalition du National’s People Power (NPP, le pouvoir du peuple national) dont la composante la plus importante est le parti maoïste JVP (voir encart). Le Sri Lanka, île de 22 millions d’habitants au large de l’Inde, avait récemment fait parler de lui en juillet 2022 lorsqu’une mobilisation massive de la population avait fait fuir le président, issu du clan Rajapaksa au pouvoir depuis des années. Cela faisait plusieurs mois que la…

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Sri Lanka: De-militarise Policing!

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By Redley Silva JJB’s Cabinet Spokesperson Minister Vijitha Herath responding to a question raised by a journalist at the media briefing said Prez AKD re-issued the Extraordinary Gazette under the Public Security Ordinance to have legislative power to deal with any unexpected threats to national security during the forthcoming General Election. There was no threat to national security during the Presidential Election. And, the Defence Secretary, Sampath Thuiyakontha, in response to a question raised by a journalist on the same matter, said they have identified sources of potential threats and…

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THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE SO-CALLED GNU FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORKING CLASS: A BALANCE SHEET

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) warned that the coalition government led by the African National Congress (ANC) and the ultra-conservative employers’ blue-eyed boys in the Democratic Alliance (DA), will hasten doomsday for the working class and the marginalised poor black majority.All signs of the first hundred days of this government, which was wrongly called the Government of National Unity (GNU), vindicate the SAFTU position. The GNU elicited ecstatic enthusiasm amongst the mainstream commentariat when it was first assembled. With fanfare, the commentariat informed us that the presence…

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