In a vicious act of class reprisal Ignacio del Valle Medina, Felipe Alvarez Hernández and Héctor Galindo Gochicua, leaders of the Peoples Front for the Defense of the Land in Atenco, were sentenced on Saturday 5 May to 67 years 6 months jail each for the events in Atenco in early May 2006.
Farooq Tariq arrested
5 May 2007, byThe General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, Farooq Tariq, was arrested from his Lahore office by a heavy contingent of Punjab Police at 1:30 p.m on Friday 4 May.
Olivier Besancenot Statement on Election Outcome
23 April 2007Declaration made by Olivier Besancenot after the first results of the French presidential election were announced.
Olivier Besancenot holds final campaign rally
19 April 2007, byFour thousand people crammed in to the Mutualité meeting hall on April 18 to hear Olivier Besancenot, despite the rally falling in the school holiday period. A giant screen was erected outside the hall so that several hundred people who couldn’t find places inside the hall could follow the meeting.
Brick kiln workers strike for higher wages, against bonded labour
13 April 2007, byHundreds of ultra-exploited brick kiln workers are on strike in the Nesher Feroz district of Sind province - for better wages, and against bonded labour servitude.
International Committee meets
31 March 2007The plenary meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International took place in the Netherlands in February.
LPP postpone congress to join the advocates’ movement
29 March 2007, byLabour Party Pakistan has postponed its scheduled three days congress. The congress was due to be held from 24-26th March at Lahore. This is to join the mass movement against the military regime.
Rallies support fighting unions
22 March 2007On March 18 in Russia national rallies in solidarity with fighting unions were called by Ford union leader Alexei Etmanov. In St. Petersburg, Samara, Voronezh, and Surgut there were rallies organised by the unions and left groups.
Besancenot successfully onto the presidential ballot
17 March 2007, byOlivier Besancenot will be a candidate in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday 22nd April. The LCR has received the necessary 530 mayoral signatures. The LCR is very proud to have overcome all the obstacles.
Open letter to those who supported me
2 March 2007, byFranco Turigliatto, elected as senator on the Communist Refoundation slate, has been expelled from the party for voting against the Prodi government on the renewal of the mandate of Italian troops in Afghanistan and the extension of a major US base in Italy. Here he explains why he voted for the ’confidence’ motion in the Prodi government, and why he voted against the government and US bases.
