After more than a year in provisional detention, Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang, Chinese labour activists and leaders of Liaoyang demonstrations for workers’ rights in March 2002, have been sentenced to seven and four years of prison on charges of ’subversion’.
Statement on Cuba
14 May 2003The fact that the Communist Party of Cuba has felt the need to write to ’fraternal parties and organizations’ shows the scope of the problem that Cuban leaders are facing as reactions come in to the execution of three Cuban citizens and the heavy prison sentences imposed on other citizens who were expressing their desire to exercise their right of criticism.
Solidarity with Brukman workers
24 April 2003On April 21, 2003 the Argentine government savagely repressed 53 textile workers and almost 7,000 people who mobilized to surround the Brukman textile factory in solidarity and to contribute their effort to occupying it.
Venezuela - Halt the coup of the right and imperialism
4 January 2003The rightist escalation initiated with the ’general strike’ and deepened with what is now being called the ’final battle’ is part of the counter-revolutionary strategy to overthrow the legitimate democratic government of Chávez and to crush the process of self-organization and self-defence among workers, students, and the people.
