WASHINGTON—Vowing to make this the first day in a long war against corporations and the 1 percent, hundreds of thousands of unionists gathered and marched from coast to coast on a “National Day of Action” on Feb. 24 to campaign for workers’ rights and specifically against a looming threat to them – the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus case.
CHARLESTON, W. Va. — No raises for 10 years, coupled with state-imposed increases in health care costs, forced West Virginia’s teachers and school staffers – from both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association – into a statewide strike on Feb. 22-23, and possibly longer.Read More »
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans could be seen marching down Caracas’ principal Urdaneta Avenue under the sweltering Caribbean sun. No, this was not a protest against the government, which we are routinely told is a dictatorship inflicting mass starvation on its people, but on the contrary, a public rally backing President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection campaign. The occasion was February 4th, which this year marked the 26th anniversary of Hugo Chavez’s revolutionary 1992 uprising against Venezuela’s oligarchic two-party system, known as the Fourth Republic. However, ahead of upcoming April 22 presidential elections that may well determine the fate of Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution, this 4F – as it is commonly known – was much more an explicit show of support for the current leftist president.Read More »
LEAVING the European Union does not spell doom for Britain, with funds “returned from Brussels” potentially being invested in public services and jobs, Jeremy Corbyn will say today.
In a major speech in Coventry to cement Labour’s vision for Brexit, he will argue that the EU is neither the saviour nor source of Britain’s problems.Read More »
LEFTWINGERS will rally in Rome tomorrow against the rising tide of fascism in the country, after police attacked an anti-fascist protest in the city of Turin yesterday.Read More »
The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) closed its campaign on Sunday towards the legislative and municipal elections on March 4.
The vote is an act that is more delicate that any other,
since with it comes life, honor, and the future
— José Martí
There is no need to dig through Cuba’s Election Law no.72, dated October 29, 1992, to find the answer. It is explicit, and Dr. José Luis Toledo Santander, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power Constitutional and Legal Affairs Commission, gets right to the point.Read More »
Important developments that took place in 1968 with the working class protesting against their deplorable working conditions are still relevant to what is happening five decades later in 2018.
One of the most prominent people in the contemporary labour movement of India, Shankar Guha Niyogi, lost his life for the cause three decades ago. From the time he began his work in Chhattisgarh in the nineteen sixties until his martyrdom in 1991, he led innumerable class struggles. He was the prime mover of a new stream in the labour movement – this stream did not confine itself to eight hours of a worker’s daily life, it did not limit itself to demands for better wages or bonuses or responses to chargesheets; rather, all aspects of the 24-hour day of a worker’s life (health-education-housing-culture-sports-prohibition of alcohol-liberation of women-the historical responsibility of workers towards other exploited classes of society) were part of the agenda of the union, the goal was nothing short of the transformation of society.Read More »
Before 28th September 1991, very few people outside Chhattisgarh or Madhya Pradesh knew the name of Shankar GuhaNiyogi. On this day, along with Niyogi’s name, people also learned the phrase, “sangharsh aur nirman”, i.e. “struggle and creation”.Read More »
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