Africa
To Build a Network of Community Radios in the Arabic World
This is a project presented by Steve Buckley, from Community Media Solutions at the WFMF (World Free Media Forum) between the 24th and 30th of March in Tunis, Tunisia. He has been working on the development of a regional network of community media, especially radios in the whole...
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Trade union exchanges experiences in the World Social Forum
Participation strengthened solidarity bonds amongst unions of several countries.
After attending the International Trade Union Meeting in Paris, France, the Metalworkers Union of São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, also sent a representative to the World Social Forum, held in Tunis, Tunisia, on March 26-30, 2013.
At the event, the...
Conditions for a revolution are ripe in South Africa
The year 2012 is likely to go down in history as the year the post-Mandela revolution started.
Students of revolutions know that "the revolution comes in the night like a thief". But a keen student can see the signs long before the revolutionary outbreak happens. Those in power are...
Marikana Miners’ Massacre:
Nationalise the mines! Punish those who killed the miners.
“Expecting us to go back is like an insult. Many of our friends and colleagues are dead, then they expect us to resume work. Never.” Miner Zachariah Mbewu told South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. The strike, which includes 3,000 rock drillers,...
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The Marikana Massacre: A Turning Point In The Post-Apartheid Era.
The images of the massacreof 34 miners by heavily armed police officers aroused a strong reaction among those who keep in their memories one of the most just struggles of the 20th century, which has been the battle fought for decades of the workers and the black majority...
England and Gadaffi: Dangerous Liaisons
Libyan people’s great victory against Gadaffi’s dictatorship has been helping the working class of other countries to get to know better their own governments.
Here in Britain, Tony Blair, from the Labor Party, who used to make speeches defending democracy and human rights when he was prime minister from 1997...
Support the Libyan people to overthrow Gadhafi! No to the NATO intervention
Currently it is impossible to find an Arab country that has not been shaken by riots or demonstrations of protests. The global economic crisis has affected countries in the Middle East and the Maghreb.
The workers of these countries who have immigrated to Europe are the first ones to lose...
Libya, burning and bleeding
On February 22, Kadhafi made a speech on state television. He denounced “16 and 17-year-old youths as drunkards and drug-fueled (…) who assault train stations”.
He asserted that the rebels, tribal and bourgeoisie leaders of the eastern region who encourage them are the spearhead of a U.S. attempt to dominate...
IWL-FI’s solidarity campaign
Down with the Kadafi dictatorship!
Stop the genocidal repression!
Full support for the toiling masses in Libya!
Libyan toiling masses, struggling to bring down the Kadafi dictatorship, are suffering a genocidal repression. World’s working class and the peoples of the world must act right now in their support and so stop the repression...
A biography there and back
In order to understand Kadafi’s role, we need some historic references.
In the early XX century, when the Ottoman Empire was falling to pieces, Libya was invade by Italy (1912) and divided into two separate colonial administrations: Cyrenaic in the East and Tripolitania in the West. Italy remained there...
