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Reactionaries OUT of the University of Munich!

The right is gaining ground in the universities in Germany, with the emergence of the "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) party.

Rebellion in France: What’s Next?

Nuit Debout, France’s massive mobilizations against a proposal to dismantle the country’s labor code, has drawn comparisons to similar international movements — Occupy, Turkey’s Gezi Park, the movement of the squares in Greece. This wealth of experience helps us look at Nuit Debout and its prospects going forward.

Police Cracks Down On Protesters: Photo Report

Photos: Martin Noda Thursday May 17 A new demonstration against Hollande’s Labor Reform took place. The Prefecture had banned scores of people (including a journalist) from attending the march. The police, in turn, ruthlessly cracked down protesters. The first step was frisking bags and seizing protection items such as helmets and masks. Even paramedics with […]

Martin Noda

May 18, 2016

The authorities who beat up the youth are contemptible and weak

Here, Left Voice reproduces an appeal by a collective of more than three hundred activists, artists, and academics in France, denouncing police violence and authorities' abuses since the onset of the state of emergency.

Health is Political

Left Voice presents an interview with Joan Benach, author of several texts on public health, who discusses public health as a primarily political question, determined by historical-structural factors. He describes the notion of social class and its relation to the health-illness binary as well as the processes of marketization that health care has been subjected to under neoliberal policies.

Left Voice

April 15, 2016

Jacques Rancière and Étienne Balibar: Solidarity with the Tolbiac Occupation

Jacques Rancière and Étienne Balibar expressed their solidarity with students protesting Hollande's labour reforms. The students occupied the Tolbiac Faculty of Pantheon-Sorbonne University on March 22. Workers, Students, High-Schoolers, Intellectuals – All Together!

Sarah Shin

April 5, 2016

Millions Protest Labor Reforms in France

Yesterday afternoon in France, students and workers took to the streets in droves to protest the so-called socialist government's proposed labor reforms, expressing deep anger over unemployment, low salaries, and generalized precarity.

Damien Bernard

April 1, 2016

The Forgotten Workers’ Control Movement of Prague Spring

In his book, Pete Dolack retells the story of the workers' council movement in former Czechoslovakia that sprang up after the Soviet invasion in 1968.

Pete Dolack

March 30, 2016

Voices from the Rhodes Must Fall Campaign

The Rhodes Must Fall movement (#RhodesMustFall), sparked by a protest action at the University of Cape Town on March 9, 2015, spread quickly to other university campuses in South Africa. It has been echoed by a campaign at Oxford University to bring down a statue of the Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes, attracting enormous public attention.

Rose

March 28, 2016