Women and sexuality groups in Hong Kong express grave concern with the recent arrests by the Beijing authorities of five prominent female activists, including Li Tingting (李婷婷)(also known as Maizi麥子), Wei Tingting (韋婷婷), Wang Man (王曼) in Beijing, Wu Rongrong (武嶸嶸) in Hangzhou, and Zheng Churang (鄭楚然) (also known as Datu) in Guangzhou, but apparently with no solid legal ground.
International solidarity with workers at Viome needed
22 March 2015The workers of VIOME in Thessaloniki, Greece, have stood up against unemployment and poverty by carrying through a long struggle to self-manage the occupied factory, in very adverse conditions. For two years now, they have been producing and selling ecological cleaning products at the occupied premises, ensuring a modest income for their families. They have been working on terms of equality, deciding collectively through the general assembly. At the same time they have received a big wave of solidarity from Greece and abroad, converting their struggle into an emblematic struggle for human dignity in crisis-stricken Greece.
The right to healthcare
15 March 2015, byThe austerity programmes in Greece have had a particularly sharp effect on the health service with many health centres closed, mass lay-offs of health workers and drastic cuts in public health care, thus excluding 35% of the population from this fundamental right.
The Murder of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh
14 March 2015, byShaimaa al-Sabbagh 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction.
Workers Have Been Cheated Once Again!
22 February 2015Reject the Black Agreement! Join hands in the struggle for Minimum Wages!
Progressive Plantation Workers Union(PPWU) expresses its utter disgust at the tripartite agreement on wages in the tea industry signed on 20.2.2015. After over one year of struggle and eight tripartite sittings, it was an anti-climax to find most unions, employers and the State Government once again signing an agreement to provide starvation wages to tea plantation workers.
Polish miners appeal
16 February 2015No to shooting workers!
No to using state institutions against protesters!
Al-Qassam are not terrorists: open the Rafah crossing and lift the siege of Gaza!
13 February 2015, byThe decision by the Urgent Matters Court yesterday [31 January] to designate the Ezz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, as a “terrorist organisation” represents another round in the series of attacks by the Egyptian regime against the Palestinian resistance and the people of Gaza.
Stop xenophobia in its tracks!
11 February 2015The National Working Committee of the United Front is outraged by the recent outbreak of violence in Soweto and elsewhere, especially against other Africans. We must act now before it spreads further!
The Greek people owe nothing, neither to the French state nor the ECB
5 February 2015, byThis statement was issued by the NPA on the occasion of Alexis Tsiprasis’s visit to Paris.
Solidarity with the fightback of the Greek workers and youth!
26 January 2015, byThe electoral victory of Syriza expresses the rejection by the Greek people of the austerity policies imposed by the troika and implemented by successive Greek governments whether of right or so-called left since 2008.
