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There is a spectre haunting the ruling class and government in South Africa: it is the radical anti-capitalist movement that the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has given birth to at its historic Special National Congress held last week. The Democratic Left Front (DLF) congratulates NUMSA for this, Congress that united metalworkers in spite of the sustained attempts to divide NUMSA.

Europe Solidaire sans Frontières has launched a call for financial solidarity toward the Philippine victims of typhoons…

Anti-nuclear organisations in Japan are calling for mass international support for their petition, which draws particular attention to the pollution of the oceans both in terms of the leakage of ground water and from the storage tanks themselves. This is so serious they argue, that it is as if ’another serious accident has occurred.
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The strike at the Antolin plant in St. Petersburg has finished with a victory of trade union. Management will start negotiations with trade union, there will be no repression against participants of the strike. - 21 October 2013.

This statement was made by the Socialist Workers’ Party in Greece (SEK) on 28 September 2013 following the arrests of Golden Dawn leaders.

Around 200 Golden Dawn members protested against the arrests at the Athens police headquarters.

However, some 50,000 people rallied in Athens, including many workers who have been striking against the government’s cuts. The overwhelming majority went on to march on the Golden Dawn headquarters, breaking away from a concert organised by the largest left party Syriza.

“All the roads in the area were just full of people, and lots of union placards saying ’Nazis out of our workplaces’,” said Katerina Thoidou of the Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (Keerfa).

“People didn’t just want to dissolve the Golden Dawn, but to bring down the government. They are so angry at the government, the courts and the police that spent so long trying not to notice the Golden Dawn and all its attacks.”

This statement by OKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the Fourth International, was issued on 18 September 2013.

On September 11, another activist of libertarian student union “Direct Action” was attacked by three masked neo-Nazi. The attack happened in Kyiv in a public place in the city centre. Three thugs approached the activist and asked if he was gay. Then the two offenders started beating him, while the third one was video recording the attack. The activist fainted and a passerby who witnessed the attack called ambulance and police.