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“Every allegation of anti-Semitism was found to be false”
A climate of fear is stifling free speech, academic research and student activism about Palestine at British universities.
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Chile today: massive march and repression
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.
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Newly organized nurses in Texas and Kansas strike for a first contract
Through wet weather in Wichita, Kansas, and scorching heat in Austin, Texas, hundreds of nurses walked picket lines June 27 in a one-day strike for safe staffing and patient safety. Nearly 2,000 nurses represented by National Nurses United (NNU) walked out.
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Thousands of actors join picket lines in Los Angeles and New York
The strike by tens of thousands of U.S. film and television actors officially began Friday.
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The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’: the Beltway expert class
Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.
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Prigozhin’s farce is over and it is clear who has won
The Prigozhin’s insurrection farce is over. I had predicted that it would not take long to end.
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In a historic step backwards, the U.S. limits the right to strike
The Supreme Court ruled against the Teamsters, opening the door to unions being sued for ‘damages’ to a company during–or due to–strike action, report MARK GRUENBERG and JOHN WOJCIK
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60 years after death, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn still scares the right
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.
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The mobilizations in Peru are the result of pent-up indignation
Although the trigger for the protests has been the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo, the grievances are rooted in historical problems.
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French trade unions: the roots of revolt against Macron
John Mullen writes from Paris on the background to the current strikes and the very different patterns of union organisation in France.
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French strikes and popular mobilizations continue, contesting not only retirement rollback, but also police brutality and authoritarian politics
Since January, more-or-less weekly mass labor mobilizations have continued against a new law that would increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, even after it was rammed through without a vote on March 16.
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The first signs of an ecological class struggle in Germany
After years of rapprochement, Germany’s climate and labour movement are jointly going on strike to demand socio-ecological public infrastructure.
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France burns as millions protest to defend pensions
March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike, organized by the labor unions in France.
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Major 1-day strike in Germany leaves all public transportation closed
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.
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The movement against the pension reform
On the Threshold of an Uprising?
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The secret of the failure of liberation–a tribute and celebration of Amilcar Cabral fifty years on
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, over the next four weeks, ROAPE will be re-posting a collection of essays paying tribute to Cabral. The collection was first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, and reflects on the extraordinary achievements of Cabral and his organisation PAIGC (the Partido Africano de Indendencia de Guine e Cabo Verde).
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Truckers slow down traffic across France ahead of Tuesday strike
French truckers obstruct major roadways in protest against the wildly unpopular pension reform.
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Lessons from the Teachers’ Strikes
In 2012, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) went on strike. That marked the beginning of a wave of job actions that would reach West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, Los Angeles, and other cities and states before returning to Chicago in 2019.
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France brought to a standstill over attack on pensions
Workers walked out on the second day of industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s scheme to raise the French retirement age by two years to 64.
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It was the workers who brought us democracy, and it will be the workers who establish a deeper democracy yet: The Fourth Newsletter (2023)
Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering.