Protest

Germany: Warning Strike Turns Up the Steam

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Europe, Germany, Labor, Labor Struggles, Protest

by Arnold Schölzel, published on Workers World, March 27, 2023 (Translation by John Catalinoto) A foretaste of the depth of the strike waves in France or Britain occurred in Germany on March 27: For 24 hours, buses and trains remained largely in depots, airplanes on the ground. Some 335,000 workers responded to the joint call by the United Services Trade[…]

Pension reform or Revolution! Crisis for the French Fifth Republic?

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Europe, France, Labor Struggles, Protest, Resistance

by Muhammad Shabeer, published by People’s Dispatch, March 29, 2023 When it bypassed Parliament and forced through pension system changes, Macron’s government exposed the anti-democratic deterioration in the Fifth Republic’s dual-executive system, writes Muhammed Shabeer. Major trade unions in France estimate that two million people hit the streets across France on Tuesday, March 28, denouncing the controversial pension reforms pushed by Emmanuel Macron’s[…]

Protest at the White House, March 18, Against US Proxy War In Ukraine

March 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Cost of War, Democracy and Consent, Ending War, Protest, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, US Foreign Policy

by John V. Walsh, published on Counterpunch, March 15, 2023 This protest did occur with about 2,500 people in attendance. We rallied across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park, with numerous speakers, then marched through the streets of DC to the Washington Post offices, an then to a church where there was an indoor rally, or “teach-in”[…]

Protests denounce U.S.-NATO wars

March 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest

by Joe Piette, published on Workers World, March 22, 2023 Washington, DC Over 2,500 antiwar activists converged in front of the White House on March 18. The main demand of the action was to put an end to the U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Coalitions representing the most active antiwar and anti-imperialist movements cooperated to organize this countrywide[…]

Renewed Peace Movement Lauded As Protesters Marched in Washington, D.C., on 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Human Rights, Protest

by Julie Varughese, published on Towards Freedom, March 21, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.—An estimated couple of thousand of people to “several thousand” marched on March 18 in downtown Washington D.C., calling for an end to the U.S. imperialist project that they hold responsible for 20 years of a “War on Terror” on millions of people. The weekend marked the 20th anniversary[…]

Protesters to CNN: Don’t Be a Pentagon Stenographer!

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Protest

by Marcy Winograd, published on the LA Progressive, March 20, 2023 CNN locked its front door during Saturday’s, March 18th, anti-war protest in front of the network’s towering Hollywood building, where hundreds of ethnically diverse demonstrators, young, old and in between, called on CNN to stop parroting Pentagon propaganda about an “unprovoked” war in Ukraine and to feature guests who[…]

‘Feed the People, Not the U.S. War Machine!’

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Protest

by Richie Merino, published on Workers World, March 22, 2022 Just days after the Biden administration proposed an egregious $900 billion military budget, the Federal Reserve printed $300 billion to bail out two banks that were “too big to fail.” Let me be clear: this is a bailout for the rich, a bailout for Silicon Valley tech companies, venture capital[…]

Which Way Forward For The Antiwar Movement

March 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Ending War, Organizing, Political Corruption, Protest, The War at Home, US Meddling in Europe, US Military

by John Catalinotto and Sara Flounders, March 13, 2023 Workers World Managing Editor John Catalinotto held an interview March 13 with Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center (IAC), a member of the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and contributing editor to Workers World, to discuss the developments of the past year of the war[…]

Massive Demonstration in Berlin Against Sending Weapons to Ukraine

February 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Germany, Protest, Resistance

Short video from Hindustan Times: Longer video from Syrianna Analysis:

Report on the Rage Against the War Machine Rally

February 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Protest, US Politics

by Phil Wilayto, circulated by the Virginia Defenders of Freedom, Justice and Equality, February 22, 2023 A few of us from the Virginia Defenders and the Odessa Solidarity Campaign attended the Rage Against the War Machine rally held Feb. 19 in Washington, D.C. Our purpose was to observe and evaluate the event, and also reach out to any well-meaning people[…]