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World leaders held a virtual meeting on Monday, May 4, to raise funds for COVID-19 vaccine research. Notably absent were any representatives from the U.S. or Russia. …

Huge, often violent, protests have rocked Lebanese cities in recent days. While the COVID-19 crisis may be a contributing factor, they are in fact a continuation of …

The struggles of the international working class continue, and we draw our inspiration from them. …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been slow to reach most of Africa compared to Europe and the United States. But that is changing. …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …

Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high. …

The deep social inequality in Ecuador is a key reason the country has been vulnerable to this pandemic …

By now, COVID-19 has spread around the world, to every continent where human beings live. …

Le Monde (the world), a French newspaper, reported on two recent polls of the French …

This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Around the World in 20 minutes Sunday, …

Bolsonaro and the Brazilian bosses don’t think they need to pay attention to what ordinary working people need. …

Many workers are shocked that they are being made to return to work with promises of protective equipment when hospitals are short of it. …

“I am angry and I am outraged” is the cry from the heart of a psychologist from Mulhouse hospital …

As wealthy countries rush to protect capital, people around the world continue to suffer. …

Someone dies of coronavirus every ten minutes in Iran, according to the country’s health ministry. …

This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Everybody trusts virologists, emergency doctors and biologists …

Coronavirus: inconsistencies at the top, discontent at the workplaces This post is translated from French …

On Tuesday evening, Edouard Philippe, after Castaner, Blanquer and Macron the night before, made his call for civism and “national union”. But all these representatives of power are much less comfortable when journalists relay the questions coming from the bottom of society as they still deny their own responsibility for the spread of the virus, linked to the damage done by their health policies. …

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a visit from Trump on February 24 while violent …

this post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Just ten minutes! This is how long …

A little more than a month after the Trump administration unveiled a so-called peace plan …

The Algerians say that it is not simply a question of changing one president for another, it is the regime itself that needs to be changed. …

The majority of RATP’s railway workers had to end the indefinite strike that began on …

“If we had really blockaded for 45 days, then Paris would be a mess in …

The fires raging in Australia since December are the most recent face of the climate …

After 38 days of strike action, Édouard Philippe dropped a bone to the so-called “reformist” …

Translated by Speak Out Now: www.speakoutsocialists.org Translated from Convergences Révolutionnaires – Special Issue; December 2019; …

It is starting to smell like trouble, all the way to the heads of state. …

Workers, students and other exploited and oppressed people are fighting back against those who rule …

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in thirty cities to protest violence against …

“In Lyon-II, we have students who go hungry:” the president of this university, Nathalie Dompnier, …

The government is under pressure. It fears an extension of the fights against its attacks, …

The population of Iraq flooded into the streets of Baghdad this October, calling for a …

From Algiers to Santiago, From Port-au-Prince to Hong Kong, and from Bayreuth to Panama, from …

With one million demonstrators in the streets of Santiago last Friday, the Chilean mass mobilisation …

On October 16th, a train accident in the Ardennes forest, at the Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence level crossing, …

Since 9th October, the Turkish army attacks on North Syria have already killed hundreds. Towns …

Just as President Macron wished, the debate on immigration opened in the National Assembly on …

While there were no immediate victims, the Lubrizol plant accident, only three kilometres from Rouen …

Last Saturday in Paris, the government deployed its heavy artillery: 7,500 police officers were mobilised, …

Last Friday, Paris Public Transportation employees had the best response against the attack being prepared …

August 30, 2019; An updated article based on an August 19, 2019 L’Étincelle Editorial All …

Climate experts are saying that temperature peaks will get higher and higher… With the heat …

Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General …

The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the …

Marine Le Pen is happy: her party (RN) got the most votes at the European …

With the European elections approaching, we keep being told there are only two choices: punish …

In this European election campaign, Nathalie Loiseau and Macron are presenting themselves as the “progressive”, …