Posts Tagged ‘striking’

Hunger striking activists seek to end the Yemen blockade

The war on Yemen has lasted six years and killed over 100,000 people. The amount of Yemenis experiencing food insecurity is rapidly rising. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 16,500 people in the country were living under famine conditions at the end of 2020 and they estimate that number could rise to 47,000 […]

Support Grows For Striking Columbia University Graduate Students

By Josh Varlin, WSWS. March 29, 2021 Above photo: Columbia strikers picketing. Today marks the beginning of the third week of the Columbia University graduate workers strike. The courageous struggle by over 3,000 graduate student-workers for improved wages, benefits and working conditions continues to receive support from workers at Columbia and more broadly throughout the […]

Biden is discovering his presidential power by striking in Syria. How far can he take it?

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WATCH: Striking French refinery workers & climate protesters clash with police outside office of oil giant Total

Protesters have clashed with French police outside of Total’s head office in La Defense, Paris as striking employees and climate activists accuse the oil giant of jettisoning jobs while failing to protect the environment. Employees of the Grandpuits refinery, who have been striking for five weeks following the announcement that the plant would be converted […]

Striking Workers Halt Construction At Future Amazon Warehouse

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice. February 9, 2021 Above photo: Teamsters. Workers walked off the job at the site of a future Amazon warehouse in Oxnard, California on Thursday because Amazon’s contractor hired non-union, out-of-state workers for the project. Roughly 75 workers walked off the job on Thursday at the construction site of a future […]

Second wave of locusts striking hard-hit East Africa

A second wave of desert locust swarms has begun striking an already hard-hit East Africa in recent weeks after heavy rains and a late-season cyclone sparked a new round of breeding, with swarms invading Kenya and southern Ethiopia, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The first wave of locusts […]

‘Q-Anon’ Bears Striking Resemblance to Bolshevik Psy-Op From 1920s Known As ‘Operation Trust’

By Chris Menahan “Operation Trust” was a Bolshevik counterintelligence operation run from 1921 to 1926 aimed at neutralizing opposition by creating the false impression that a powerful group of military leaders had organized to stop the communists’ takeover. Here’s an except on the “Trust” operation from pages 13-14 of Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn’s book, “New […]

Striking Farmers Shut Down India’s Punjab to Protest Agriculture Law

Hundreds of unionized farmers and their supporters in India blocked roads and highways in Punjab on Tuesday, paralyzing traffic and shutting down commerce to protest what they describe as “anti-farmer” agricultural laws passed in September. Farmers’ unions called for a nationwide strike after five rounds of talks with government officials failed to resolve their grievances. […]

Interview With Striking Nurse In Philadelphia Suburb

Above photo: Fox 29 Philadelphia. Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center outside Philadelphia went on strike Tuesday morning, demanding safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases in Pennsylvania. Left Voice spoke with Drew, one of the nurses walking the picket line. On Tuesday, November 17, nurses at St. Mary Medical Center […]

This week in pictures: The most striking images from this week’s top stories

This week Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posted a photo of himself from hospital and said that he was breathing on his own in his first statement since his suspected poisoning. The EU parliament passed a non-binding resolution to impose sanctions on Belarus’ leader Alexander Lukashenko over his disputed re-election and violence perpetrated against protesters. […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

In pictures: The most striking images from Belarus protest

Tens of thousands of protesters again hit the streets of Minsk to demand the resignation of Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko. More than 125 people were arrested at Sunday’s demonstration, according to police sources, but Ales Bilyatsky, of the Viasna human rights organisation, said in excess of 200 protesters were detained. The protests were sparked after […]

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