A major struggle is unfolding in the Republic of South Africa with the recent announcement that the Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) will lay off thousands of workers. Amplats, whose parent company is the Britain-based Anglo American, is the world’s largest producer of platinum. South Africa has deposits of 80 percent of the world’s known [...]
South Africa: Platinum monopoly threatens mining jobs
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Abayomi Azikiwe May 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Thousands in Haiti provide escort for Aristide
Haiti’s judicial police headquarters had banned demonstrations in support of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. So, on May 8, tens of thousands of Haitians marched alongside Aristide’s motorcade after he gave testimony in the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. They escorted him home. Aristide provided testimony about Jean Dominique, a popular journalist who was assassinated [...]
Imperialists are behind escalated attacks on Syria
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David Sole May 13, 2013 » Add the second comment.
The reckless bombing by Israel near Damascus in early May has provoked a sharp response. Syrian state media quoted President Bashar al-Assad as saying he would turn the Golan Heights into a “resistance front,” allowing combatants to attack Israel from the area. (Reuters, May 11) The Golan is Syrian territory that was seized by Israel [...]
René González reunites with family in Cuba
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Cheryl LaBash May 12, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The global movement to free the Cuban 5 is feeling great joy. On May 3, Miami federal trial judge, Joan Lenard, signed an order allowing René González to remain in Cuba. The movement is now redoubling its demands on President Barack Obama to repatriate the other four members of the Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón [...]
Workers protest in Bangladesh, need solidarity
The death toll is more than 1050 in the calamitous factory cave-in on April 24 at Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh. Those who perished were mainly young women. Many had traveled from poor, rural regions to find jobs in the garment industry. It is reportedly the deadliest disaster in clothing industry history. Anguished relatives have [...]
Autoworkers coordinate worldwide
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Martha Grevatt May 11, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Autoworkers around the globe, who work for General Motors, Ford, Fiat/Chrysler and PSA Peugeot Citroën, coordinated efforts on May Day. Their demands listed in their leaflets were for “no plant closings or cutbacks in workers’ rights, reduction of working hours with no loss of pay and save our environment from the profit system.” (sindmetalsjc.org.br) Autoworkers in [...]
Postal workers’ struggle spreads across the world
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Joseph Piette May 9, 2013 » Add the first comment.
U.S. Postal Service clerks, carriers, mail handlers and drivers have a lot in common with other postal workers in the capitalist world. In Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Greece, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, India, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Canada and other countries, postal workers have gone out on strike in the last year to demand wage increases, [...]
Cuba’s Mariela Castro receives LGBT Equality Award
Mariela Castro Espín, the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) in Havana, Cuba, and a deputy of Cuba’s parliament, the National Assembly of People’s Power, spoke at the Equality Forum in Philadelphia on May 3. Castro Espín has spearheaded a number of campaigns over the last decade to promote acceptance of [...]
Workers worldwide fight austerity, low wages
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Workers World staff May 8, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Millions marched in 80 countries to commemorate International Workers Day — May Day. They united in protest of austerity policies and demanded vital benefits for workers. Asian workers decry ‘race to bottom’ Masses of low-wage workers in Asia were on the streets decrying the transnational corporations’ “race to the bottom,” squeezing wages to maximize profits [...]
As French troops stay in Mali, suffering grows
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Abayomi Azikiwe May 7, 2013 » Add the first comment.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the West African state of Mali on April 26, where his troops have been fighting since January. France intervened in the central and northern regions of Mali, supposedly to eject Islamic organizations designated as terrorists by Paris and other imperialist states. On April 25, the U.N. Security Council [...]
