Author: wisidagamage

REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE

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Seven years ago, on 14 August 2013, the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa square and slaughtered more than 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian opposition had been demonstrating outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo for 47 days when security forces attacked at around 6am on 14 August 2013. Security forces shot indiscriminately into the crowd, set fire to the tents people had gathered in and threw tear…

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재난과 안전 사고에 무책임한 윤석열 정부를 규탄하다

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집회 취재팀 기사입력 2023-08-06 08:24 주제: 공식정치 폭염 경보에도 8월 첫 윤석열 퇴진 집회가 힘차게 치러졌다. 오늘은 “윤석열 퇴진! 김건희 특검!”을 내건 ‘촛불대행진’ 집회가 1주년(제51차)을 맞이한 날이다. 집회 참가자들은 무대 발언에서, 집회장 곳곳에서 서로를 격려했다. 오늘 주최 측은 참가자 안전을 위해 쉼터용 냉방버스를 대열 맨 뒤에 대기시켰다. 아주 좋은 아이디어였다. 그런데 경찰은 이를 용납하지 않고 집회 전부터 버스를 치우라고 압박했다. 또, 집회 도중에 참가자가 늘어나 횡단보도를 침범하자 경찰은 집회장을 향해 현행범 체포 운운하는 경고 방송을 해댔다. 집회를 대놓고 방해한 것이다. 경고 방송 소리가 너무 커서 집회 발언이 중단되기도 했다. 마치 태극기 우익들이 집회…

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People’s movements across the world say: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terror!

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Movement organizations collect signatures for the “Let Cuba Live” campaign to demand that Cuba be removed from the US state sponsors of terrorism list August 11, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch On August 11, artists, intellectuals, political leaders, people’s movements, trade unions, and political parties from around the world launched a historic campaign to call on US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list.  The convening organizations of this campaign, the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA), ALBA Movimientos, Foro de São Paulo, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas,…

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Wages, productivity and the rate of exploitation: Some concrete examples

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Michael Pröbsting 1 August, 2023 First published at TheCommunists.net. The latest edition of the ILO’s Global Wage Report contains a number of interesting figures which demonstrate how the bosses are offloading the consequences of the capitalist crisis on the shoulders of the working class. The study shows, among others, that the real wages are more or less stagnating while the capitalists force the workers to produce more and more commodities. [1] Karl Marx explained in Capital Vol. 1 that the working day of a worker can basically be divided in two parts. One portion which he…

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