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  • by Robert Bechert 
    Once again slim hopes have risen that the death toll in West Asia’s current wars will, at least, lessen with the announcement of a 60-day extension of the shaky truce between the US and Iran.  As Gaza, and now Lebanon, has shown, a truce can lessen the numbers of dead and injured but not completely stop the killing and […] The post What will Trump’s truce and any deal with Iran actually bring?  appeared first on Socialist World Media.
  • by Mira Glavardanov
    During the last three weeks Albanian masses have taken to the streets in daily protests against a four-billion-dollar tourist project on their coastline. It is a mass protest of hundreds of thousands of people, in […] The post “Albania is not for sale!” – the masses rise against luxury Kushner project appeared first on Socialist […]
  • by B Youvraj, New Socialist Alternative, India
    It has been more   than a month since the Tamil Nadu election results were declared. The massive electoral wave swept aside both the DMK, AIADMK and brought the newly formed TVK to power.  The results […] The post From Anti-Caste Revolt to Bourgeois Accommodation: The Trajectory of Dravdian Politics   appeared first on Socialist World Media.
  • by Peter Taaffe (first published by the Militant newspaper in 1978)
    This year marks the 90th anniversary of a wave of mass strikes in France, following the election of a Popular Front government. To mark the occasion, we publish an article written by PETER TAAFFE, which […] The post France 1936 ‘sit-in strikes’: When workers moved towards power appeared first on Socialist World Media.
  • by Johannes Bauer, Cologne 
    Cologne’s swimming pool operator, Köln-Bäder GmbH, a subsidiary of Cologne’s council’s municipal services provider, Stadtwerke-Köln GmbH, has filed a motion for the extraordinary termination of employment of works council member, Martin Löber. The reason given for this termination is alleged working-hour fraud. Experts from ver.di (the public sector union) who have […] The post Germany: International solidarity against union busting – CWI member under attack for his defence of workers’ rights  […]