Subjects Archives: Protest

It is 50 years since the coup d’état and there is an important generational change on the streets, many thousands of young people who feel the need to express their discomfort with society, to express their pain at the breakdown of democracy and all that followed.

The National Lawyers Guild condemns in the strongest terms the state of Georgia’s indictments, announced today, Tuesday, September 5, against 61 people targeted for allegedly being part of the movement to #StopCopCity.

The Georgia Attorney General’s Office filed RICO (racketeering-influenced and corrupt organizations) indictments against 61 individuals alleged to be part of the Stop Cop City Movement. 

An interview with longtime activist Savitri Durkee who was a plaintiff in the record-setting class-action lawsuit.

France’s Interior Minister reports that one-third of those imprisoned during the week of violence were young rioters.

175 years on from the 1848 June Days insurrection, Katherine Connelly explores what Paris’ working-class revolutionaries taught Marx and Engels.

Police repression of mass protests regarding provincial constitution reforms—threatening the right to protest and land workers’ rights—have led to at least 68 people being arrested and 170 injured this Tuesday, June 20.

Around 10,000 military personnel and 250 aircraft from 25 countries are participating in NATO’s ‘Air Defender 23’ exercise scheduled from June 12-23. Anti-war groups have called it a provocation.

Protests erupted across Germany after  the Dresden regional court in Germany sentenced the anti-fascist activist Lina E. and three others for several alleged militant actions against fascists and for forming a criminal organization.

Although she’s been dead for almost six decades, it looks like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is still getting under the skin of right-wingers. Just two weeks after it was installed, a historical marker commemorating her birth in Concord, N.H., has been demolished on the order of Republican state officials.

Although the trigger for the protests has been the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo, the grievances are rooted in historical problems.

As workers prepare for a long drawn struggle, John Mullen argues now is the time to call for a general strike.

John Mullen writes from Paris on the background to the current strikes and the very different patterns of union organisation in France.

While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies.

March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked out in U.S. corporate media.

March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike, organized by the labor unions in France. 

The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain power, while the ascendant religious-nationalist majority seeks to redefine the state.

This week, Friday marked the 24th anniversary of the 78-day bombing campaign NATO carried out against Yugoslavia, and Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The ver.di trade union is demanding a 10.5% pay raise as a result of inflation, and requesting higher remuneration for overtime and night shifts, alongside improvements to working conditions.

Or a continent and a country that has already borne the brunt of fascism, providing arms to Ukraine lacks wisdom and hints at strategic implosion.