Railway workers, oil workers, Air France pilots and ground employees and other important sectors of the labor force have joined the strikes in France.
WorkersMedia
June 13, 2016
This video produced by our sister publication Revolution Permanente shows the strength of labor taking to the streets in France, fighting to topple down the labor reform law.
In the words of an oil workers on strike: “we demand the elimination of the labor law reform, which is why we’re going to completely block the economy in France.”
FRANCE: Oil refineries and rail-workers on indefinite strike – YouTube
This weekend, a Palestine Congress was supposed to take place in the German capital. But 2,500 police were mobilized and shut down the event before the first speech could be held. Multiple Jewish comrades were arrested.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 12, 2024
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between "Good Jews" and "Bad Jews," her politicization in the civil rights movement, and her time in an Israeli kibbutz.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 10, 2024
As part of a repressive campaign against the movement for Palestine in France activists have gotten summons from “anti-terrorist” police. The movement for Palestine in the United States must oppose all repression of our movement here and in Europe.
Samuel Karlin
April 9, 2024
The Labor Notes Conference will have record attendance this year, but it’s showing its limits by opening with a speech from Chicago’s pro-cop Democratic mayor, Brandon Johnson. Instead of facilitating the Democratic Party’s co-optation of our movement, Labor Notes should be a space for workers and socialists to gather and fight for a class-independent alternative.
Emma Lee
April 16, 2024
U.S. Imperialism's support for Israel is driving the tensions behind Iran's attack and the escalations in the Middle East. It is all the more urgent for the working class to unite with the movement for Palestine against imperialism and chart a way out of the crisis in the region.
Samuel Karlin
April 15, 2024
A group of neighbors in South Orange and Maplewood have become a reference point for pro-Palestine organizing in New Jersey suburbs. Now these liberal towns are upping repression against the local activists.
Samuel Karlin
April 12, 2024
Aidan Parisi, a student at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, was recently suspended and has been threatened with eviction from their graduate student housing for pro-Palestinian activism on campus. Aidan talked to Left Voice about the state of repression, the movement at Columbia, and the path forward for uniting the student movement with the labor movement and other movements against oppression.
Left Voice
April 11, 2024
