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Mass French Strikes and Mobilizations Challenge Macron’s Pension Reform

April 3, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, France, Labor Struggles, Socio-Economic Struggles

By Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, March 31, 2023 What the corporate media ban from their coverage of the unfolding and ever massive French protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to add two years to the French retirement age, from 62 to 64, is the origin of the pension plan itself, perhaps the best in the world. This magnificent[…]

“Provoked” NATO Expansion, “Unprovoked” Ukraine War, and the Dire “China Threat”

April 3, 2023 Judith Bello China, NATO, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Felix Abt, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 15, 2023 Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell. U.S. President Joe Biden, Western politicians and their media partners agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” The president of the country notorious for its numerous unprovoked wars of aggression called[…]

Leonard Peltier’s 46 Years in Prison: ‘What Else Do You Want?’

April 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Police Corruption, Political Prisoners

by Mark Trahan, published on Fire This Time, Winter Edition 2023 (originally published on the Navajo/Hopi Observer, October 18, 2023) Sadly, though according to this article, Leonard Peltier’s request for Clemency was sent to the President months ago, he remains in prison to this day. Justice delayed is justice denied. Free Leonard Peltier NOW! [jb] Leonard Peltier’s name has[…]

Uganda LGBTQ Obscures Crimes Committed on Behalf of the U.S.

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Congo, Rawanda, Uganda

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 29, 2023 Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ legislation has elicited worldwide condemnation. But that nation’s history of invading, pillaging, and killing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with U.S. blessings, is rarely discussed. The parliament of the Republic of Uganda recently passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 , which makes it a crime to identify as[…]

The ICC Is A US-Controlled Kangaroo Court

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Corruption, Lawfare, Russia

by Jaqueline Luqman, published on HoodCommunist, March 23, 2023 The Washington Post, or the Pentagon Post, as Eugene Puryear aptly named the paper this Saturday, printed a bizarre “key update” on the official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The update reads: “Chinese President Xi Jinping claims to have come to Moscow as[…]

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[…]

The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik-Tok

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, US Government Action, US Politics

By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga, March 31, 2023 Last Thursday, a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok[…]

Ukraine: U.S. Out Now! Our Antiwar Credo

March 31, 2023 UNAC Editor coup, Democracy and Consent, History, Statement, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

Statement from Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 Maidan’s rooftop fascist snipers Today’s unfolding Ukraine tragedy began in February 2014 when rooftop fascist snipers opened fire on Maidan protestors originally assembled to resist the Victor Yanukovych government’s austerity measures. The fascists murdered 100 in cold blood, including some of their own for good measure. Yanukovych, the elected president, was instantly blamed[…]

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”[…]