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While unveiling its manifesto for July 25 election, the Awami Workers Party of Pakistan (AWP) called upon the millions of workers of the country to play their part in ensuring that education, employment, health, housing and other basic necessities were provided to the people.

Three hundred days. Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian lawyer, has been arbitrarily detained in Israel for 300 days. "A few days before the end of his sentence, we have no guarantee that he will be released, as the extension of the sentence is still to be feared. The French State must finally obtain his liberation," insists his support committee.

For 42 years now, LALIT has mobilized on the three closely intertwined demands on this issue:

– Decolonization of the Chagos Islands, illegally split off from Mauritius by Britain at Independence in 1968.

– Closure of the US military base on one of the islands, Diego Garcia.

– The right of return, heads held high, of all Chagossians, as Mauritians, with proper reparations.

Our mass mobilizations of the 1970s and 1980s have helped keep the struggle against military occupation on the agenda until now. Lalit never gave up on any of the three. Why should we?

Early on Friday 18 May, Egyptian security forces stormed the house of labour lawyer and socialist activist Haitham Mohamedain, taking him away to an unknown destination.

In a new study showing that the timing of species’ natural events is failing to synchronize, "everything is consistent with the fact it’s getting warmer"

SANTIAGO – The occupation of about a dozen Chilean universities by female students demanding an end to harassment, machismo and sexist education is going on its fourth week.

On 25 May, the long-awaited and campaigned-for referendum on changing Ireland’s very restrictive abortion law – encapsulated in the 8th amendment to the constution – will finally be held. The very broad-based Trade Union Campaign to Repeal the 8th launched a tabloid campaign newspaper on 1 May. We publish their press realease below.

An open letter in support of the current student revolt, the railworkers’ strike, and the struggles in defence of public services in France.

The Spanish state’s repression against Catalonia’s democratic rights gets worse every day. There are at this moment 10 leading politicians and activists in prison, without having been condemned of any crime. They are accused of violent rebellion, although they have never used violence. By mid April the two leaders of the main Catalanist organisations, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sánchez, will have spent 6 months in prison.

International statement issued on 9 April 2018.