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April 23, 2025

World Federation Of Trade Unions 2025 May Day Declaration

The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886. The World Federation of Trade Unions, the most historic international trade union organisation, representing more than 105 million workers all the length and breadth of the world, sends a cordial and militant message to all the workers and farmers, to the ordinary people of toil and labor, on the occasion of International Workers Day, which constitutes a lasting and bright milestone of struggle.

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April 23, 2025

World Federation Of Trade Unions 2025 May Day Declaration

The International Class-oriented Trade Union Movement, the workers, and the militant unions all over the globe honor with struggles the 139th anniversary of the workers’ struggle in Chicago in 1886. The World Federation of Trade Unions, the most historic international trade union organisation, representing more than 105 million workers all the length and breadth of the world, sends a cordial and militant message to all the workers and farmers, to the ordinary people of toil and labor, on the occasion of International Workers Day, which constitutes a lasting and bright milestone of struggle.

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April 17, 2025

Palestinians Mark Prisoners’ Day Amid Ongoing Genocide

Amid Israel’s ongoing genocide, thousands of Palestinian political prisoners are experiencing the most severe forms of torture and maltreatment ever recorded since the beginning of the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said today, on the eve of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. In this report, Palestinian prisoner defense and advocacy groups lay out the key realities and figures surrounding the current situation for political detainees. The abuse of Palestinian prisoners has become yet another facet of the genocide which is taking place with full international complicity.

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March 10, 2025

Cuba Sends Doctors, The United States Sends Sanctions

On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas medical-assistance programs. A US State Department statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.” This action, the seventh measure targeting Cuba in one month, has international consequences; for decades tens of thousands of Cuban medical professionals have been posted in around sixty countries, far more than the World Health Organization’s (WHO) workforce, mostly working in under- or unserved populations in the Global South.

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March 1, 2025

Solidarity Movement Wins County Divestment From Israel Bonds

Cleveland- For almost a year the Cleveland Palestine Action Community, local chapters of the Palestinian Youth Movement and Students for Justice in Palestine and other solidarity activists have waged a concerted battle to pressure Cuyahoga County officials to divest county funds from Israel Bonds. The county’s investment stood at $16 million when the struggle began in April 2024, following a hard-fought win with the Cleveland City Council passing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Solidarity organizations employed a range of tactics, including packing County Council meetings and calling for divestment during “public comment,” mass phone calling and emailing Council members…

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February 25, 2025

International Solidarity Is The Union Answer To Tariffs And Deportations

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has recently expressed the UAW’s readiness to “work with Trump on trade.” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien spoke on a podcast against “illegal immigrants that come into our country to commit crimes and steal jobs.”

But based on my experience, in the long run, international solidarity is the only way we can build working-class power.

Demagogues like Trump have often exploited the protectionist and anti-immigrant sentiments that have been widespread in American labor for generations. A working class that is divided, both within the U.S. and across North America, is easier to exploit. Corporations have greatly profited from our divisions over the three decades since NAFTA was enacted.

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January 21, 2025

Strengthen Solidarity With Palestine!

Resistance in Palestine and West Asia has mobilized an important movement in the U.S. and other NATO countries for over 15 months to demand the genocide in Gaza stop. A ceasefire has finally been achieved. This movement must ask itself the following question: What do we do now to contribute to liberation for Palestine?

Despite the avalanche of pro-imperialist propaganda from the Israeli and Western corporate media, hundreds of millions of people around the world have been propelled into action to oppose the horrible, genocidal war against Gaza.

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December 21, 2024

A Call To Protect Gaza’s Healthcare System

The Palestine Mental Health Networks and Doctors Against Genocide stand with Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in pleading with the international community: Do not remain silent as Gaza’s healthcare system is systematically destroyed. The relentless assaults on Kamal Adwan Hospital—a sanctuary meant to save lives in northern Gaza—are part of a deliberate genocidal campaign. These attacks on hospitals and clinics, places meant for healing and shelter, are not accidents of war; they are the cold calculations of those who would see an entire people erased.

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May 27, 2024

US’s Electric Vehicle Boom Is Deepening the Suffering in the Congo

The story of “John Doe 1” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. In a country where the earth hides its treasures beneath its surface, those who chip away at its bounty pay an unfair price. As a pre-teen, his family could no longer afford to pay his $6…

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May 16, 2024

Adults in the Room: A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac

To insist that a movement remake itself in one’s image is not a plea for solidarity; it is a demand for obedience.

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January 22, 2024

A Left That Can Do Both

There is no such thing as “the global left”—but we should still talk about it anyway. Introducing our Winter 2024 special section.

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November 5, 2023

“Return the Land to Make it Right”: Q&A With Indigenous Activist Nick Tilsen

This story was originally published at Prism. As part of a Prism series last year, we heard from Indigenous leaders, land stewards, scholars, and practitioners of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to learn how the return of Indigenous land is integral to mitigating climate change. The cornerstone of these articles was the ongoing battle to restore the Black Hills (also known as Mount Rushmore) to…

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June 15, 2023

Myanmar’s spring revolution and the Rohingya genocide

Burmese educator, academic, and human rights activist, Maung Zarni, spoke to Green Left’s Chloe DS ahead of his participation in the Ecosocialism 2023 conference, on July 1‒2.

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June 11, 2023

YPJ commander: ‘Women create life, and we can make it free’

Sozdar Dêrik, commander of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) speaks to Cristina Mas, in Barcelona.

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June 5, 2023

‘From Australia to Cuba with love’ campaign launched

The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society launched the 2023 From Australia to Cuba with Love campaign. Alex Bainbridge reports.

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June 3, 2023

Sudan solidarity rally: ‘We will rise stronger and more beautiful than ever’

Protesters marched in Meanjin/Brisbane for peace and justice in Sudan. Alex Bainbridge reports.

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June 2, 2023

Brazil: Can Lula’s plan bring peace to Ukraine?

Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement within the Socialism and Liberty Party, speaks to Federico Fuentes about Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s peace proposal for the war in Ukraine.

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April 6, 2023

Inside the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in Africa

Colonial-era laws are still used to oppress LGBTQ+ Africans, writes Efemia Chela, but the struggle to organise grassroots mutual aid and for legal rights continues.

April 5, 2023

Corporations finance Myanmar coup regime’s war on the people

Activists are stepping up their pressure on the United States to impose sanctions on North American oil and gas companies financing the Myanmar military’s war against the people, reports Peter Boyle.

March 31, 2023

Canada: Police raid Wet’suwet’en camp and arrest Indigenous land defenders

Police officers from Canada’s secretive unit known as the C-IRG arrested five land defenders, most of them Indigenous women, in a raid at a camp on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory on March 29, reports Jeff Shantz.

March 31, 2023

West Papuan student charged with treason

A West Papuan university student was charged with treason for raising the Morning Star flag and calling for a referendum on West Papian independence at a rally last November, reports Susan Price.

March 23, 2023

United States: Thousands rally for peace and against US imperialism

Rohima Miah reports from Washington DC that on the 20th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq, thousands of peace and antiwar activists rallied in the nation’s capital under the banner Fund People’s Needs, Not the War Machine!

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March 21, 2023

Sudan: ‘The people will win in the end’

Hoyam Abbas from the United Sudanese Revolutionary Forces Abroad talks about the current stage of Sudan’s democratic revolution against military rule.

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March 21, 2023

Public art invites us to show solidarity with whistleblowers

Italian artist Davide Dormino’s life-sized bronze sculptures of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden invite the public to show solidarity with whistleblowers. Peter Boyle reports.

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March 17, 2023

Video: Protests planned for Burma Revolution Day

Peter Boyle spoke to Maung Maung Than, the ecretary of the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma and veteran of the 1988 student uprising about upcoming actions on Burma Revolution Day (March 27) and the state of the people’s resistance to the military coup regime in Burma/Myanmar.

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March 14, 2023

Germany: Frankfurt City Council cancels concert by Roger Waters

After a highly acclaimed run in North America, Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour across Europe. The final concert in Gemrany, originally planned to take place in Frankfurt on May 28, has now been cancelled, reports Vijay Prashad and Katie Halper.

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March 10, 2023

Jammu and Kashmir: Eviction drive sparks anger and protests

The administration of Jammu and Kashmir, which is directly under the Indian government, launched an eviction drive targeting farmers and workers, reports Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service.

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March 7, 2023

Tens of thousands across Europe protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one year on

The biggest European anti-war protest marking one year since Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine was held in Berlin on February 25, where according to Tariq Ali, some 50,000 people turned out in freezing conditions, reports Susan Price.

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March 6, 2023

Hugo Chavez’ legacy commemorated

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was a leader for Venezuela, Latin America and the whole world, a meeting to mark 10 years since his death, was told. Chris Slee reports.

March 2, 2023

Catalonia: Barcelona demonstrations highlight left divisions over Ukraine

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, it soon became clear that there was a gulf between Catalonia’s peace movement, writes Dick Nichols. This was still the state of play on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion.

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