What Indonesia's maintrade unions did by centring this year's May Day action as a platform for President Prabowo was wrong, and a betrayal of the workers themselves. Distorting May Day as a momentum of resistance into a day for workers to dig their own graves.
Sketch by Henk Ngantung of May Day 1951 in Gambir area of Central Jakarta (KBR)
May Day or Labour Day for us, the organisations that are members of GEBRAK, is a day of momentum for the workers' struggle, we must always promote (…)

La lutte contre l'oligarchie, l'extrême droite et les gouvernements du centre qui leur ont ouvert les portes a dominé les discours lors du premier meeting du Bloc, en présence d'eurodéputées de Podemos, de la France Insoumise et de l'Alliance de Gauche finlandaise.
Catarina Martins (Bloco PT), Manon Aubry (France Insoumise) Mariana Mortágua (Bloco PT ), Li Andersson (Alliance de Gauche FI) et Irene Montero (Podemos ES
Dans une salle comble à l'Incrível Almadense, le meeting d'ouverture (…)

What preceded the establishment of trade unions in the Czech lands? An interview with historian Jakub Raška about the beginnings of the labor and trade union movement.
First Edition of the Communist 'Red Pravda", 1920
The establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918 meant, among other things, a break with the previous repressive authoritarian policy of the Habsburg monarchy and greater democratization of society. This also meant a strengthening of the role of trade unions, greater rights (…)

To fund social services, hift the tax burden from ordinary Malaysians to the big corporations.
One other reason for voting a PSM candidate is because the PSM consistently asks the relevant questions.
There are many NGOs and other civil groups proposing schemes and programs designed to enhance the welfare of ordinary citizens. In the past two years, the PSM itself has put forward recommendations to
– implement an old age pension scheme. Our proposal was RM 500 per month for all those (…)

Genocide talk has spread into all TV studios as legitimate talk. From here on, one should say: thou shalt murder. All that remains is to debate who should be murdered and who should be spared
MK Moshe Saada, earlier this year. Proclaimed on Channel 14 TV that he was “interested” in starving an entire nation. “Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this is our obligation.”Credit: Sraya Diamant
It was only to be expected: The discourse has taken on neo-Nazi attributes. Boundaries have fallen and (…)