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  • France: A Second Wind to Defeat Macron

    France: A Second Wind to Defeat Macron

    Feminist protest inside the Gare de l'Est railway station during another day of nationwide strikes and protests in France, January 24, 2020 (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes) The movement for the withdrawal of the pension counter-reform entered its 46th day of strike at the RATP and SNCF on 18 January, the 46th day of mobilisation in various forms…

  • France at a Crossroads

    France at a Crossroads

    The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, established at the end of World War II and considered one of the…

  • The Brexit election — from revenge to resistance

    The Brexit election — from revenge to resistance

    Redcar lost its steelworks and 3,000 jobs the October 2019, before the EU referendum Both sides of the establishment want to bury the legacies of struggle in the communities that abandoned Labour in the 2019 General Election. Ray M, Unite Rep, Aerospace and Shipbuilding Sector, argues that the left cannot afford to do the same.…

  • Britain: 2019 election analysis — A victory for the Far Right. A crisis for the Left

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on display (Photo: UK Parliament) The British ruling class has much to celebrate. Their party — the party of the rich and the corporations — has won its biggest majority since 1987. Our party — the party of working people — has suffered its worst result since 1935. They are…

  • Pakistan: Struggling under the flag of solidarity, facing repression, in a fractured country

    Pakistan: Struggling under the flag of solidarity, facing repression, in a fractured country

    Protest demanding reinstatement of student unions, education fee cuts and better education facilities, Karachi, November 29, 2019 (Photo: Asif HASSAN / AFP) The student mobilization on 29 November 2019 had a deep echo across Pakistan. Affirming solidarity with all the discriminated and exploited sectors of society, it became a rallying point for a wide range…

  • Iran Popular Protests Against Regime Intensify in Response to Iran Downing of Passenger Plane

    Iran Popular Protests Against Regime Intensify in Response to Iran Downing of Passenger Plane

    On Saturday, January 11, after three days of denial by the Iranian government about its January 8 downing of a Ukrainian plane over Tehran, a representative of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces admitted that an Iranian missiles had struck the plane by mistake. This had occurred hours after Iran’s missile attacks on U.S. bases in…

  • Largest Ever Strike in India Shakes Up Modi Government

    Largest Ever Strike in India Shakes Up Modi Government

    (Photo: NewsClick.in) India woke up on January 8, to witness the largest ever strike with an estimated 25 crore (250 million) workers, employees, farmers and rural labourers stopping work and hitting the streets to protest against the Modi government’s economic policies and divisive politics. Reports coming in from various states indicate that the strike was…

  • In Support of the January 8th National Strike of Indian Workers and Students

    In Support of the January 8th National Strike of Indian Workers and Students

    We, the unions and organizations representing students, workers and the broader communities in the United States, stand in solidarity with the January 8th National Strike by workers and students in India. The January 8th National Strike has been called by central trade unions in India for higher minimum wages, pensions, employment generation, and against inflation…

  • Margaret Jordan, presente!

    Margaret Jordan, presente!

    Women Against Racism protest, Detroit, late 1970s Margaret Jordan, a founding member of Solidarity, died early January 3rd. She is survived by her partner, Mike Parker, and her daughter, Johanna Parker. Margaret grew up in Berkeley, California and attended the university there. Her parents were immigrants who fled Nazi Germany. An early marriage, to Joel…

  • Beyond the 2019 UAW Negotiations

    Beyond the 2019 UAW Negotiations

    Photo: Jim West Except for the oldest strikers I met on the picket line during the UAW-General Motors negotiations, autoworkers did not remember a time when, if you passed a 90-day probationary period, you earned full pay and benefits. Back then, temporary workers were only hired during the summer months in order to cover vacations.…