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Socialist Action | Looking back at 2022, and Going Forward in Struggle

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Originally From: https://socialistaction.ca/2022/12/05/looking-back-at-2022-and-going-forward-in-struggle/ December 5, 2022 by Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action Canada / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste in the Canadian state, who spoke at the Toronto Region Socialist Action Canada Pre-Holiday Social on December 3, 2022. Good evening, comrades and friends.  Isn’t it great to be meeting again in this building (the OPSEU regional office in downtown Toronto) after nearly three years? Socialist Action Canada is a growing revolutionary workers’ party that puts a great emphasis on political education.  At the same time, SA is an activist organization.  It has many practical…

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Sandya Priyangani Ekneligoda  is among the 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2022!

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Sri Lankan human rights activist Sandya Priyangani Ekneligoda  is among the 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2022 compiled by the BBC. Eknaligoda has been campaigning for the families of the thousands of people that are missing in Sri Lanka. In 2017, she also won the  International Women of Courage Award for her work in the field. She actively became involved in the campaign, after her husband, a prominent investigative journalist, Prageeth Eknaligoda, went missing in January 2010. In her own words, she is “a woman…

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The deep crisis of Chinese capitalism is beginning to spur the masses into action.

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka Barely a month after the Chinese Communist Party’s pompous 20th Congress, anger from below is bursting to the surface.Recently, the Foxconn mega-factory in Zhengzhou, Henan, saw violent confrontation between workers and the police over wage theft by management. And in the past few days, large and violent protests have been reported in many major cities, targeting the regime’s draconian lockdown measures, which have become a focal point for widespread discontent.As we have long predicted, the deep crisis of Chinese capitalism is beginning to spur the masses…

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Solidarity with the mass protests demanding the lifting of lockdown restrictions in China.

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Solidarity with the mass protests demanding the lifting of lockdown restrictions and for an anti-pandemic effort that is scientific, democratic and for the people! Some Revolutionary Communists in China November 30, 2022 【聲援群眾要求解封的抗議，支持科學、民主與人民的防疫！】 Since mid-November 2022, many mass protests demanding the lifting of lockdown restrictions have taken place in mainland China. On November 14, tenants in Guangzhou’s Haizhu protested against lockdown measures; on November 22-23, Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou protested demanding freedom of movement, subsidies and the implementation of promised reforms; on November 24, a fire broke out in an…

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Demand Protection of Human Rights and Livelihood of the Local Villagers of Dhinkia, Odisha

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By Sevvilam Parithi, Tamilnadu Writers, Artists, Human Rights Activists and Well-known PersonalitiesDemand Protection of Human Rights and Livelihood of the Local Villagers of Dhinkia, Odisha The South Korean Company POSCO backed out from Odisha due to a long struggle of the local communities. However, the Odisha state Government is allowing Jindal to take over the lands and livelihood of the same local villagers. The struggle for the protection of local resources, livelihood, human rights and environment is going on. The state Government has unleashed severe repressive methods on the activists…

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Qatar World Cup: Sports washing and hypocrisy

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka The top national football teams from around the globe are currently facing off in Qatar, competing in the FIFA 2022 World Cup.Since 2010, when Qatar was chosen to host the World Cup, endemic corruption, bribery, and brutal exploitation of migrant workers have plagued the country, the sport, and its international organisation, FIFA.Football supporters, activists, and human rights groups have put pressure on national teams to protest against the Qatari regime’s repression of human rights, as well as against FIFA’s corruption. Consequently, many fans have decided to…

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Textile factory in Australia in 1981

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On this day, 27 November 1981, 300 mostly migrant women workers at the Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia walked out on strike when they were furious that Textile Workers’ Union officials failed to show up for a Friday meeting about their pay claim. They then made plans to picket the plant on Monday. As Monday morning came around, the women had assembled a mass picket at the plant, and marched to another nearby Kortex factory, where most workers joined them on strike. Together, speaking a mixture of Turkish, Arabic,…

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202 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS

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“All my life I’ve been doing what I was meant to do—I’ve been playing second fiddle—and I think I’ve done my job pretty well. I was glad that I had such a great first violin like Marx.” Friedrich Engels. “After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was the most remarkable scientist and teacher of the modern proletariat in the entire civilized world. Since the fate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the life work of both friends has become their common cause. Therefore, in order to understand what…

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