On December 5, all against Macron and his policy
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in thirty cities to protest violence against women. Their anger at the government’s inaction and lack of resources in the face of domestic violence and feminicide adds to the anger of young people against precariousness, of hospital staff against understaffing and low wages, of Yellow Jackets against […]
DACA: The Supreme Court Will Not Decide Our Fate!
The Supreme Court began hearing arguments to determine whether the Trump administration can end the program known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), which provides protection from deportation for about 700,000 people, often called Dreamers. The Trump administration tried to end DACA in 2017 but their decision was blocked by a federal judge and […]
Macron is afraid of social unrest…. and rightly so!
“In Lyon-II, we have students who go hungry:” the president of this university, Nathalie Dompnier, evoked the 22-year-old student Anas K, who set himself on fire to protest against the precarious situation of many students, like his own. Everyone was upset – parents whose children struggle between college and odd jobs, teachers amazed to find […]
Peter Phillips: Giants – The Global Power Elite (November 11, 2019)
Peter Phillips’ latest book Giants: The Global Power Elite takes a look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are currently in control of the global economy.
Macron subscribes to Le Pen
The government is under pressure. It fears an extension of the fights against its attacks, after the strikes in railways, Paris public transports, hospitals and elsewhere, not to mention the still active Yellow Jackets. So it finds scapegoats and uses the old distraction recipe: anti-immigrant talk. Macron insults the working class by pretending to believe […]
Iraq: Protests Erupt, Government Scrambles
The population of Iraq flooded into the streets of Baghdad this October, calling for a better life; the life that was promised to them when the US invaded Iraq in 2003. This invasion was supposed to replace a dictatorship with democracy, and poverty with jobs, and a decent life. Instead Iraqis have found that the […]
California Fires: Profiting from Destruction
Last week, California was on fire. Again! Of the state’s 58 counties, 43 were under a “Red Flag” warning, which means a severe danger of wildfires. At one point 12 separate wildfires were raging across the state, which have burned over 100,000 acres. The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County forced 200,000 people to flee and […]
It’s a global fight…
From Algiers to Santiago, From Port-au-Prince to Hong Kong, and from Bayreuth to Panama, from one continent to another, people are rising. The rebellion is deep-rooted, millions of demonstrators are highly determined. And the mobilisations persist, despite police and military repression. What’s at stake is critical: the fall of governments in power, including those of […]
Who are the Kurds? Why is Turkey Trying to Kill Them?
Following Trump’s order for the U.S. military to withdraw from Kurdish territory, attention has been focused on the Kurds in Northern Syria. To understand what’s at stake, and what’s behind Turkey’s attacks, it’s important to understand the history of the Kurdish people and their struggle for freedom, and often for their very existence. The Kurdish […]
US Government Decides More Will Go Hungry
The government has cut $4 billion from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), as well as subsidized school lunch programs for 2020. Imagine living off of $25,750 for a family of four (maybe you don’t have to imagine)! This is currently the official “poverty line”. To qualify for free lunch in school the family has […]