Month: September 2024

Around the world

France protests against Macron’s coup, calls for impeachment

September 10, 2024 Orinoco Tribune
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of several French cities on Saturday, September 7, to protest against what has been dubbed as “electoral theft” committed by President Emmanuel Macron, who appointed far-right […]
Around the world

The return of the condor? Signs of a Latin America under siege

September 10, 2024 Carmen Parejo Rendón
Argentina woke up on September 2 with the University of the Mothers (UNMA) fenced off and surrounded by members of the national police, who prevented workers from accessing the center. The Argentine President, Javier Milei, […]
Venezuela

Venezuela denounces coup plan announced by U.S. Secretary of State

September 10, 2024 teleSUR
‘We Bolivarians make cosmic dust of the Monroe Doctrine. That is our victory, Mr. Blinken,” Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said. Sept. 9 – On Sunday, Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil said that U.S. Secretary […]
China

U.S. targeting China, deploying previously banned missiles in Japan

September 10, 2024 Drago Bosnic
As U.S. strategic capabilities keep sinking (primarily due to its growing technological backwardness), the world’s most aggressive thalassocracy is determined to use its current imperial overstretch to jeopardize several adversaries simultaneously. Namely, the Pentagon is […]
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Hunger protests in Nigeria lead to arrests and raids

September 9, 2024 Owei Lamkefa
Nigeria is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a generation. Annual inflation stands at more than 30%. Prices for food like yams, a staple food, are almost four times higher than last year. New protests […]
Around the world

Military and economic repression against Haiti’s impoverished, rebelling masses

September 9, 2024 Henriot Dorcent and Kim Ives
The Haitian State is repressing Haiti’s masses by importing foreign military occupation troops, called the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), to reinforce the Haitian National Police (PNH), the traditional counterinsurgency force deployed by the international […]
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Stand in solidarity with Booker Ngesa Omole, CPK National Vice Chairperson

September 9, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha
The Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) has strongly denounced what it describes as “the illegal and politically motivated arrest of our National Vice Chairperson, Booker Ngesa Omole,” on September 7, 2024. Posting on X (formerly […]
Labor and strikes

Dockworkers vs. Big Money: ILA faces off against Wall Street

September 8, 2024 Lallan Schoenstein
At the beginning of August, leaders of North America’s largest dockworkers’ union, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), sent the employer association, USMX, a strike notice that federal law requires 60 days before a strike.  When […]
Palestine

Turkey blocks flotilla holding 5,000 tons of aid to famine-threatened Gaza

September 8, 2024 The New Arab Staff
Around 5,000 tons of aid bound for Gaza has been blocked by Turkish authorities, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has said, with one of the group’s vessels stranded in the port town of Haydarpaşa and waiting for […]
In the U.S.

Free the Uhuru 3! Don’t let the U.S. government criminalize international solidarity

September 7, 2024 Cheryl LaBash
Tampa, Fla., Sept. 5 – This morning the U.S. government will continue presenting their “evidence” which may conclude the prosecution portion of the trial as early as Monday.  The U.S. government is attempting to criminalize […]