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GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court on Wednesday allowed the jailed Awami Workers Party (AWP) leader Baba Jan to contest the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly byelections in Hunza constituency.

A message of solidarity on behalf of the Working People’s Party of Puerto Rico (Partido del Pueblo Trabajador-PPT), to all those congregated and marching in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10 at the ports of San Francisco, California.

We publish two brief statements about the most recent crackdown from the UK-based EgyptSolidarityInitiative.org website.

After the failure of the two investiture sessions of Pedro Sánchez, Anticapitalistas is convinced that it is necessary to engage a new social and political dynamic. These two votes have demonstrated that the only majorities that seem arithmetically feasible are the following: either a coalition government between the forces of the dominant elites and in favour of austerity, or a turn by the PSOE in the direction of a government of a new type, a broad coalition with Podemos, benefiting from the neutrality of the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties.

Matt Meyer of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, in association with the National Boricua Human Rights Network, has issued an international call for actions on Monday, June 20, demanding Freedom for Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Surreptitiously - like bandits who prey on their victim- and undemocratically, the elite which owns finance and the multinationals is driving the implementation of new “Free Trade Agreements”: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP); the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); and the Trade in Services Agreement (TSA).

In the past many years, the Awami Workers Party has mourned and condemned many attacks. Today, we sit heartbroken, condemning yet another

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.