Around the world – Page 33 – Struggle

Protesting pension reforms, French working class shuts down the country

March 8, 2023 Peoples Dispatch

On Tuesday, March 7, the French workers took to the streets across the country denouncing the government’s controversial new pension reforms. Trade unions also participated in a general strike on Tuesday as part of their […]

Peruvians in Cusco and Puno resume protests against Boluarte

March 7, 2023 teleSUR

The Front of Puno Popular Organizations declared Dina Boluarte an enemy of Peruvians and recalled that her regime is responsible for the murder of 21 citizens in that area. In the early hours of Monday, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]