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“The high cost of living in Martinique is the consequence of the colonial system”

Ulysses, Philippe Pierre-Charles — 2024-11-13T20:42:09Z

Since September, Martinique has been rising up against the high cost of living. Faced with this revolt, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has responded with violence. L'Insoumission has been covering this movement since its beginning. Thanks to its network of reporters, today we are presenting an unpublished interview with Philippe Pierre-Charles, former general secretary of the Martinique Democratic Workers' Centre (CDMT).

- IV598 - November 2024 / Martinique

Martinique: ‘Our economy is based on a colonial model'.

Marcel Sellaye — 2024-10-20T09:14:46Z

For the past month, the popular movement against the high cost of living in Martinique has been gathering momentum. Marcel Sellaye, an activist in the GRS (Groupe révolution socialiste) and a former leader of the Respé (Résistance ESPoir, Émancipation) list, explains the reasons for the anger and how the movement is continuing.

- IV597 - October 2024 / France, Martinique

Martinique and Guadeloupe still in turmoil

Patrice Mhidi — 2022-01-08T08:53:53Z

“The die has not yet been cast! Protests continued between Christmas and New Year's Day. The Antilles are holding their breath.”

- IV564 - January 2022 / France, Martinique, Antilles, Guadeloupe

Martinique and Guadeloupe thrown into chaos by the French state

Correspondents l'Anticapitaliste — 2021-12-09T09:59:03Z

“A great responsibility now rests on an cross-sectoral trade union coordination, particularly in health: strengthening the cohesion and unity of these structures, ensuring the coordination of those in struggle, forcing progressive elected representatives to rise to the level the situation requires.”

- IV563 - December 2021 / Martinique, Antilles, Guadeloupe

The colonial nature of pandemic management in Martinique has accentuated the people's mistrust

Philippe Pierre-Charles — 2021-08-27T12:00:49Z

In Martinique, hit by a particularly deadly fourth wave of Covid-19, the vaccination campaign is struggling to take off. 25.4% of the population has received at least one dose, of which almost 20% have received a complete vaccination regimen. Rates are still low, which place the island among the least vaccinated French territories, along with Guadeloupe and French Guiana. For care home residents, 48.6% have had a first-injection, of which 44.2% have had a complete vaccination regimen. For health professionals, the figures are 30.9% and 21.6, respectively.

- IV559 - August 2021 / France, Martinique, Covid-19 Pandemic

No to the mask of censorship on police violence

Groupe Révolution Socialiste (GRS) — 2020-12-06T08:28:42Z

Protest in Martinique against the proposed new French law on “global security” which has already provoked mass protests in France, see “Hundreds of thousands against authoritarian policies: let's continue to win”.

- IV551 - December 2020 / France, Martinique

The time of anti-capitalist and anti-colonial contestation

Gilbert Pago — 2009-04-14T17:53:52Z

In Martinique, the general strike launched on February 5 by the Intersyndical (inter-union coordination) immediately took on, by its scale and its ongoing dynamic, just as in Guadeloupe, a political dimension of challenging the injustice, the exploitation and the oppression that exist in Martinique society

- IV411 - April 2009 / Martinique, Antilles