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Six and a half years after having been unfairly dismissed - through the use of the army and in flagrant violation of their most basic employment rights - the Mexican Electricians Union (Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas - SME) has completed a successful negotiation that guarantees the employment reintegration of its 16,599 resisting workers and the continuation of payment of their pensions to 22,000 retirees.

Five years after the Tunisian revolution, none of the successive governments seems to have any efficient solutions to the problems of unemployment and to alleviate the economic situation of underprivileged regions, victims of marginalization,endemic corruption and poor governance.

Since the start of the global economic crisis, a new movement has arisen across the world.

During Christmas as toxic smog spread from the northern provinces to central China, the country’s netizens expressed concern that air pollution will become the new “normal” as official state media continues to twist a positive angle out of the bad news.

With 99.4% of the votes counted in the Portuguese presidential elections, Bloco candidate Marisa Matias obtained 10.12% of voter support and was the third most voted candidate.

This statement was made by OpenLeft Collective-Russia and Sosyalist Demokrasi ?çin Yeniyol-Turkey on 5 December 2015.

IndustriALL Global Union and other global unions demand the Chinese government to free detained labour activists in Chinese province Guangdong, stop suppressing labour and civil society organisations, and respect the fundamental labour rights enshrined in ILO Conventions.

On December 3 2015, the Danes voted no to ending Denmark’s opt-out on the EU’s justice and home affairs rules. Enhedslisten - the Red-Green Alliance are very happy about the result, which we see as a no to less democracy and less legal certainty – but not a no to international cooperation.

This statement was issued by the NPA Executive Committee on the evening of the first round of the regional elections, which saw the far right National Front top the poll in six of thirteen regions, and the governing Socialist Party in only two.

On the morning of Sunday the 29th of November more than ten thousand people formed a warm and friendly human chain from Oberkampf to Nation to proclaim the climate emergency and denounce the hypocrisy of the COP 21 conference.