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Responding to direct racist threats from the nazi party Golden Dawn against one of the founding members of CADTM Greece Moisis Litsis, the international CADTM network wishes to highlight how serious a danger the rise of fascism is, a development that is the direct consequence of the deterioration of social conditions imposed by creditors claiming that paying public debts is more important than fundamental human rights.

Since January 1, 2013 in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, a city of 419,830 inhabitants, residents can take the bus, trolleybus or tram for free. Non-residents must still pay for public transport; they just have to obtain, for the price of 2 euros, a special green card, which tourists must recharge when paying, or else buy a ticket from the driver.

Chokri Belaïd, one of the main leaders of the Tunisian radical left, was shot dead this morning [6 February] outside his home.

The Daniel Bensaïd website was launched in Paris on 31 January.

National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) today, January 9, threatened to launch greater agitation program if Tazreen Fashion’s owner was not arrested immediately for his responsibility in killing 112 workers in factory fire on 24 November 2013.

Who said that Françafrique it was finished? Hollande did not have enough hard words during his campaign for denouncing French policy of domination in Africa. In October during his trip in Dakar he even declared “There is France and there is Africa!

Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan (Rojbin) and Leyla Soleymez were executed yesterday [Wednesday 9] afternoon at the CIK, the Kurdistan Information Centre.

Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) Leader, Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratna asserted he would continue to stand and strive for a free and dignified social fabric, that would assure security and protection for women, children and individuals in a society free of terror, intimidation, criminality, corruption, racism and religious fanaticism.

Demands: immediate arrest and trial of Tazreen Fashion’s owner and other culprits of factory fire, payment of wages-allowances and compensation to 15,000 workers of Hallmark Group, placing and passing in Parliament of the amendment to Labour welfare foundation act and Labour law, establishing safe workplaces in garment sector, and implementation of free trade union rights.

Since the outbreak of the revolutionary in January 2011 and even before that, trade unionists, like workers throughout the region, played an important role in the struggles and the fall of the dictators. Today, the trade union movement of the different countries of the Middle East and North Africa continues its daily struggles for better conditions of life and work, but also to deepen the revolutionary process.