IV578 - March 2023

It was after four years of neo-fascist far-right government that the former metallurgist was re-elected as president of Brazil for his third term. If the hopes are high, the challenges are just as high.

“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.”

“We need a different wage policy, we need a different union leadership, basically we need completely different unions.”

“There is now a consensus that it is impossible for one side to win militarily. But, in the absence of political will to make peace, the country has been in a state of low-intensity civil war for two years.”

“The school workers victory is also important for the L.A. teachers who will themselves soon enter contract negotiations and may have to strike.”

“Nevertheless, in the current situation, what is lacking is the building at the national level and in the cities of a common social and political front, defending an anti-capitalist alternative of social and financial choices in favour of the working classes, with a different sharing of wealth, a front relying on social dynamics to present itself as a direct political actor in the current situation.”

A look back at a controversy surrounding the British government’s anti-migrant policies.

“Nuclear disaster is ongoing. The very existence of nuclear power is a threat to the survival of humanity not only in this region but also in the world.”

Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.

“The pressure of democratic public opinion is essential to save Maksym and the other prisoners sentenced by puppet courts or who are in the hands of the Russian army.”