Dear Minister, 31 January 2019 We, the undersigned organisations, networks and platforms, write to you to express our grave concerns and urge you to act over the current crisis in the Mediterranean Sea. Since January 2018, at least 2,500 women, children and men have drowned in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, EU leaders have allowed themselves to become complicit in the tragedy unfolding before their eyes.
Read MoreThe victory over the Trump administration lockout of Federal workers is a people’s triumph of collective action! Collective action creates the seeds for deeper and even more far reaching victories. While much credit has been given – deservedly – to the fortitude of Democratic legislators led by the much-maligned Speaker Nancy Pelosi – the decisive role of the public workers’ unions has not gotten the attention it deserves.
Read MoreStatement by the Communist Party of Ireland The sham veneer of democracy that is the “European Parliament” adopted a resolution today recognising the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the “interim president” of Venezuela. It also called on member-states to recognise the coup government, just as it did with coup junta in Ukraine in 2014.
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2019 – Disappointed by Mariah Carey’s refusal to act on behalf of Saudi women and suffering Yemenis by canceling her Saudi performance, CODEPINK is launching a broad-based campaign calling on all musicians, artists, businesses, think tanks and universities to boycott, divest, and sever ties to the Saudi regime. Over the past week activists, journalists, Saudi women, and human rights groups have been calling on Mariah Carey to cancel her performance in Saudi Arabia. Ms. Carey ignored them.
Read MoreGLS fires 33 USB porters and suspends 6 of them: they attack the union to stop the fights. Yesterday, 29 January, 33 dismissal letters and 6 suspension letters were delivered to the workers of the GLS Piacenza hub. This new measure is a collective disciplinary dismissal.
Read MoreThe President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, expressed his intention of dialogue with all sectors of the country in order to consolidate the peace and stability of Venezuela, a declaration given during the installation of the first Congress of the Evangelical Movement for Venezuela, in the School of Planning located in La Rinconada, Capital District.
Read MoreSanctions which have the effect of leading to starvation and medical shortages are not the answer to the crisis in Venezuela, United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy. His comments followed the imposition of sanctions on Venezuela’s national oil company by the United States.
Read MoreA joint appeal from European Communist and Workers’ Parties for the upcoming EP elections. As the European Elections of May 2019 approach, a joint appeal is issued by a number of Communist and Workers’ Parties from Europe. The declaration boldly underlines that the European Union functions as a European imperialist center and declares that any expectation for “reforming” or “democratizing” this institution in a pro-people direction has been proved to be futile.
Read MoreThe ambassador to France of the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela calls on Brussels and Paris to favour dialogue rather than encouraging outside intervention. How will you respond to Juan Guaido’s call to the Venezuelan ambassadors to no longer follow orders given by Nicolas Maduro?
Read More“We have already taken the first steps: a ship that leaves a Venezuelan port loaded with our resources must be payed before leaving the port”, announced the People’s Power Minister of Oil, Manuel Quevedo. After the meeting with the Vice-ministers and the executive committee of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), Quevedo stressed that they perform the internal analysis to protect the resources of the nation, as well as the partners and suppliers of the company in the United States so that have the least possible impact on the oil market,…
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