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State came not to help, but to terrorize. Interview from Antakya, Turkey

February 18, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Interview with Halil Yakut from Halkin Gücü TV in Turkey, who has been a volunteer in Antakya since the day after the earthquake. (interview date: 12 February 2023) – You came to the earthquake region […]
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Neruda was assassinated with a biological weapon, nephew denounces

February 17, 2023 Juan M. Garcia
Rodolfo Reyes, a lawyer, and nephew of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, charged on Tuesday that the reports from two laboratories in Canada and Denmark confirm the assassination of the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature with a […]
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Hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Madrid in defense of public health care

February 17, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
A group of pensioners chanted, “Cutting back on health care is a criminal act,” during the demonstration in Madrid in defense of public health care. These six words sum up the feelings of hundreds of […]
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U.S. troops out of the Philippines!

February 13, 2023 Stephen Millies
Filipinos and their supporters protested the Pentagon’s war buildup in the Philippines on Feb. 11 in New York City. People rallied at the Times Square military recruiting station on a busy Saturday night in the […]
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Airforce spent millions to shoot down a U.S. weather balloon

February 13, 2023 Moon of Alabama
February 11 — Yesterday, the U.S. airforce shot down another weather balloon: The Pentagon said it shot down an unidentified object over frozen waters around Alaska on Friday at the order of President Biden, less than […]
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French workers’ movement debates general strike to beat Macron

February 13, 2023 John Mullen
Demonstrations in a record number of towns – over 260 – took place last Saturday, 11 February. This was the fourth day of action to defend pensions in France, as the Pensions Bill begins its month […]
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Ninety years since Hitler took power

February 11, 2023 Stephen Millies
German working class supported socialism. How did the Nazis crush them? Ninety years ago, on Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. A dozen years of hell followed, with tens of millions […]
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South Africa’s National Union of Metalworkers will join call for Mumia’s freedom

February 11, 2023 Lallan Schoenstein
ILWU attends South African Conference commemorating the 1973 Durban strikes Representatives from the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered with union leaders from Namibia and South Africa at a Jan. 26 – 28, 2023, […]
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Turkey-Syria earthquake catastrophe needs global cooperation, not U.S. sanctions

February 10, 2023 Sharon Black
February 9 — The death toll from the unprecedented scale of the 7.8-magnitude quake that hit Turkey and Syria is now over 23,000. As of this writing, almost 70,000 people have been injured, and some […]
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Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria

February 9, 2023 Peoples Dispatch
The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Khaled Hboubati, demanded on Tuesday, February 7, that Western countries, specifically the U.S. and its allies, lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and […]