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Zurich: 3,000 people protest against Trump and the WEF

BFS/MPS — 2026-02-02T21:19:54Z

“The strong turnout at this demonstration goes beyond the outrage caused by Trump. It also reflects the fact that more and more people are rebelling against the capitalist economic and social system.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Economy, Switzerland

The Other Davos, 16-17 January 2026

BFS/MPS — 2025-12-25T07:36:30Z

For more than 25 years, the “Other Davos” has been creating a counter-power to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. This year's conference focuses on our anti-militarist responses to the escalation of imperialist tensions and wars, as well as on internationalist solidarity with Palestine.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Economy, Switzerland

New left-wing wind on the shores of Lake Geneva?

Thomas Vacchetta — 2024-12-21T07:20:47Z

The Swiss parliaments did not wait for a dissolution before dividing into three blocs at both the cantonal and federal levels.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Switzerland

Historic victory for the “Aînées pour le climat”

Maryelle Budry — 2024-04-22T20:33:10Z

“They accused Switzerland, with evidence to back up their accusations, of failing to take care of their health and well-being in the face of increasingly worrying heatwaves, and of failing to take steps to achieve the target set for 2030 by the Paris Agreement in 2015.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Women, Climate, Switzerland

A new purple tide of anger sweeps Switzerland

Aude Spang, Françoise Nyffeler — 2023-07-02T10:16:00Z

The new feminist strike, which took place throughout Switzerland on 14 June 2023, has once again demonstrated the unequalled power of this movement and its capacity to mobilise. Already in 2019, the scale of the purple wave that swept through this right-wing country, unaccustomed to massive social struggles, took us by surprise.
Once again this year, hundreds of thousands of people in all the major cities shouted out their demands for a world of solidarity, for the abolition of (…)

- IV582 - July 2023 / Switzerland

Banking crisis in Switzerland: socialization not monster colossus!

BFS/MPS — 2023-03-30T06:13:12Z

“This new monster colossus has only come about because once again the Swiss state is stepping into the breach and thus the wage earners are being obliged by the government to pay for part of the losses of a big bank.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Economy, Switzerland

Strike as long as it's needed !

Effe Deux — 2022-06-16T10:28:46Z

“The revolution will be feminist, of solidarity and internationalist, or it will not be.”

- IV569 - June 2022 / Women, Switzerland

No to Frontex and a murderous asylum policy

Aude Martenot — 2022-05-17T09:09:56Z

“It is no longer sustainable to reject and criminalize exiles according to their origin, nor to let people – women and LGBTIQ+ people above all – suffer the violence of the migration route.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / Migration, Switzerland

Youth campaign for free, green and high quality public transport in Genevaa

Clement Bindschaedler — 2022-05-03T10:13:52Z

“The people are demanding that the community take full responsibility for an essential public service. If free transport is not an end in itself, it represents a strong signal.”

- IV568 - May 2022 / Youth and student movements, Public services , Climate, Switzerland

FNAC Switzerland: smile, you'll get a pay rise!

Tamara Knežević — 2022-04-28T08:29:32Z

“Beyond their destabilizing nature, such changes weaken the possibility of a collective organization of employees.”

- IV567 - April 2022 / Trade unions/workplace organizing, Switzerland