23 thousand workers of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, members of the DİSK General-Labour Union, went on strike with great enthusiasm on Thursday 29 May. The strike of Izelman, Izenerji and Egeşehir workers of the municipality has reached its fifth day. The big actions of thousands of workers on the streets of Izmir have raised the […]
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John Kay During a recent press conference speech following Reform’s gains in the local elections, Nigel Farage criticised the UK government decision to hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, a decision made in recognition of that country’s claim to sovereignty, and the long standing UN resolutions condemning Britain’s creation of the ‘British Indian Ocean […]
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By GEORGE NOVACKMalcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965. On this anniversary of the tragedy, we are republishing this review of George Breitman’s book, “The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary.” George Novack, a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and the author of many books on Marxist philosophy, originally presented the review in […]
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Letter from Volodymyr Kozelsky, Head of the Ukrainian Trade Union Confederation, to the RMT and the British Working Class on May Day Dear Colleagues, I write to you on behalf of the Free Trade Union of Railway Workers of Ukraine (abbreviated as VPZU), a nationwide public trade union. The union’s primary and regional branches operate […]
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fighting against the Russian military invasion and for their workers’ rights October 3, 2024 Women take to the mines More than two hundred women currently work at the Bilozersk mine in the Donetsk region, nearly fifty of them in underground jobs. The number of miners at the coal-fired power station has fallen due to the […]
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October 12, 2024 https://laboursolidarity.org/en/n/3296/a-ukrainian-high-school-student-in-the-war More than 25% of schoolchildren in Ukraine today are deprived of the opportunity to study fully because of military operations and regular Russian missile attacks. As a result, in April 2024, 628,489 children in Ukraine were studying at a distance and a further 298,833 were studying in a mixed format (partly […]
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