Just before Polish teachers suspended their strike to allow for exams, Philippe Alcoy interviewed Dagmara. She gave us an insider view on the causes of the historic struggle of Polish teachers as well as on the solidarities of pupils and parents.
Gilets Jaunes still fighting
6 May 2019, byFor the last six months, the Gilets Jaunes in France have been demonstrating in cities, giving out leaflets at roundabouts, blocking distribution centres and occupying motorway tollbooths. They have been protesting for 24 consecutive Saturdays since 17 November 2018.
No U.S.-Guaido Coup — Let Venezuelans Decide!
5 May 2019, byOn Venezuela - statements from organizations in the United States (below) and Venezuela - Luchas “We condemn the fascist coup and denounce wage precariousness on 1 May 2019” and Marea Socialista “We reject the attempted military coup by Guaidó, López and their imperialist partners. May the discontented people not fall into the trap of the coup plotters!”.
We condemn the fascist coup and denounce wage precariousness on 1 May 2019
5 May 2019, byThis 30 April 2019, the unpatriotic and fascist right of Venezuela has failed again in its terrorist attempt to seize power through a coup d’état. This is part of the growing exhaustion of the Guaidó scenario that has been set in motion by transnational capital allied to the bourgeois faction led by Leopoldo López, MarÃa Corina Machado and others.
We reject the attempted military coup by Guaidó, López and their imperialist partners. May the discontented people not fall into the trap of the coup plotters!
5 May 2019, byWe reject the attempted military coup by Guaidó, López and their imperialist partners.
Working people need an alternative independent of the political leaderships of the bureaucracy and capital.
Sri Lanka: last warning (so far)
4 May 2019, byThe bloody Easter attacks in Sri Lanka confirm the extent to which the spread of terrorism has become a major feature of the international situation and demands the affirmation of active solidarity with all the communities that fall victim to it.
After the strike of 8 March: we continue!
3 May 2019, byThis 8 March in Belgium, did not bring together hundreds of thousands of women as elsewhere. But we had a historic moment: it was the first feminist national women’s strike.
Making the Green New Deal Real
2 May 2019, byTHE GREEN NEW Deal resolution introduced into Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey is a manifesto that has changed the terms of the debate over the country’s future. Cutting through the Trump administration’s denials about who is responsible for the extreme weather we already face, it unites the issues of climate change with that of eroding workers’ rights, racism and growing inequality. (At the end of March, the Senate voted against the GND in what has been called a ceremonial stunt.)
Long Live the Women’s Committee
1 May 2019, by ,A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.