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French state escalates attacks on unions

The French government used tear gas and threatened leaders with “terrorism” charges to try to stop the protests that a…

June 21, 2016

Cox assassination reveals Britain’s right wing

June 20 -- The shocking assassination of Jo Cox, a Labor Party Member of Parliament in Britain, is clearly linked…

June 21, 2016

NATO’s Warsaw Summit threatens war with Russia

The location of NATO’s next summit meeting is itself a provocation against Russia. NATO leaders will meet on July 8-9…

June 21, 2016

From French unions: ‘Solidarity with LGBT people’

The following is a “statement in solidarity with LGBT people” from the CGT, the labor confederation in France that has…

June 21, 2016

Outraged New Yorkers say: ‘Boycott Israel for Justice’

On June 9, a crowd of several hundred in New York City vehemently voiced their protest of a recent anti-BDS…

June 19, 2016

Germans protest U.S. drone war

Between 5,000 and 7,000 demonstrators formed a 5.5-mile human chain around the massive U.S. Air Force Base at Ramstein in…

June 19, 2016

Take action: Ukraine must free kidnapped political prisoner Andrei Sokolov!

Statement of the Donbass organization Borotba, translated by WW contributing editor Greg Butterfield. June 15 marked two months since the…

June 19, 2016

A new communist generation rises in the former Soviet Union

Last month, I made a whirlwind visit to seven cities in four countries of the former Soviet Union: Russia, the…

June 19, 2016

Solidarity with French workers’ struggle grows

From Athens, Greece, to San Francisco, Calif., passing through Italy and on to New York City and Butner, N.C., solidarity…

June 19, 2016

Puerto Rico at the crossroads

Just as capitalism is at a dead end, the colonial status of Puerto Rico, the so-called Commonwealth, is in the…

June 15, 2016