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Chlordecone: the fight against colonial crime takes on a new dimension

Patrick Le Moal — 2023-10-19T07:10:00Z

“The poisoning of the people of the Antilles is no longer in dispute: in 2021, the French government has finally recognized the prostate cancers of people who have worked for at least ten years in contact with chlordecone as an occupational disease, allowing them to be compensated.”

- IV585 - October 2023 / France, Antilles

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 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