Trump’s Middle East Deals: Cynical Politics, Not Peace
On September 11, President Trump announced by Twitter that he had arranged a peace treaty making Bahrain “the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days.” …
On September 11, President Trump announced by Twitter that he had arranged a peace treaty making Bahrain “the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days.” …
Early this month the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, published his view of the state of the world and he doesn’t think it’s pretty. …
On October 2, 1968, a peaceful demonstration of nearly 15,000 people took place in Mexico City. …
Young women in France are protesting against sexist clothing discrimination …
A week ago, the camp on Lesbos, a Greek island, caught fire. It held 12,000 people, which is four times the number of occupants the Greek government says could safely live there. …
50 miners died in Congo last week. They aren’t the first, and these types of disasters aren’t rare. The system of capitalism accepts the deaths of workers for profit. …
In a demonstration of the power of the working class, workers in Belarus have gone on strike in support of the protestors against state repression. …
On August 16, it was under this slogan that tens of thousands gathered in Minsk with flowers, balloons and flags …
A single massive chemical explosion at the port killed at least a 137 people and injured five thousand …
On July 26, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld death sentences against five Iranian activists …
The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …
Jair Bolsonaro, has just tested positive for COVID-19. …
On June 20, the city of Verkhoyansk in Siberia hit a record high temperature over 100 degrees. …
In late March, India implemented one of the world’s most severe lockdowns …
Just like Trump, Biden recently voiced his support for Juan Guaidó, the right-wing politician trying to take power in Venezuela. …
White-supremacist organizations and individuals have taken to Twitter to promote their violent agenda …
This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere …
Climate disruption is just one of the ways human life is threatened due to the massive destruction to the environment …
On June 4, protesters in Hong Kong held their annual vigil for the victims at Tienanmen Square …
A recent study found that when temperatures increase past 89.6°F, tropical forests end up releasing CO2 …
Super Cyclone Amphan devastated parts of Bangladesh and India last week. …
Schools in France re-opened May 11, at least in the areas where the virus has spread the least …
American-made weapons are still killing thousands of innocent people in Yemen, a country experiencing one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises …
For months, hospital staff in France have been fighting for better pay. Then, during the crisis, they were sent to the front without ammunition: a lack of PPE …
Government-endorsed deforestation in the Amazon rainforest threatens genocide of indigenous communities while increasing the risk of more pandemics and wildfires. …
Covid-19 and the Global Food Chain with Raj Patel …
Mass protests have broken out again in Iraq after the nomination of a new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi. …
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. …
Featured image credit: Faeez Safedien
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. …
By March 23rd, there were over 370,000 cases of Coronavirus, including more than 16,000 deaths …
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. …
On February 29, the French government used an executive order to pass a widely-hated reform of the pension system, which is their equivalent of social security. …
Interviews with a rail worker and a high school teacher, both revolutionary activists with L’Étincelle, …
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a visit from Trump on February 24 while violent …
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