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Hugo Blanco is currently in hospital in Sweden receiving urgent medical care. He is not entitled to free medical care and the bill is growing daily. He is being cared for by his children but we need help from the international community to cover these costs.

“May Day is not only International Workers’ Day but also a day of solidarity with the oppressed peoples and civil disobedience against war.”

The strongly-contested pension reform forced through by the Macron government was approved by the constitutional council on Friday 14 April and promulgated into law during the night.

Macron then made an address to the population on national television on Monday 17 April. The NPA issued this statement.

Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.

“To win, we must continue to organize, to put maximum pressure by blocking the economy.”

Anti*Capitalist Resistance call for international solidarity on 1 February as the trade union movement resists Tory anti trade union legislation.

“The invasion of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court and the Alvorada Palace represents an attempted coup d’état.”

“The reasons for this historic standstill are not unknown to us: every day we feel the disastrous effects of disinvestment in the public health service, the inadequacy of ratios or the loss of wages.”

Foxconn workers’ struggle served as a key prelude to the A4 Revolution, and we must continue to bridge between workers and broader mass struggles. We encourage global allies to organize their own protests at Apple stores to support Foxconn workers and other Chinese workers under threat.

“The Labour Relief Campaign also organised a Climate Justice rally in Lahore with over 2000 in attendance on 30 September 2022, to raise awareness about different aspects of the climate justice campaign. It also demanded the suspension of Pakistan foreign debts.”