Africa
Strikes spread in Europe and Africa over lack of coronavirus safety precautions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 March 2020
Amazon workers in France, metalworkers in Italy, postal workers in Britain and doctors in Zimbabwe are among those taking job action to protest lack of adequate safety measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Africa records over 2,400 cases of COVID-19
By Stephan McCoy, 26 March 2020
An international and coordinated struggle against the spread of coronavirus on the African continent is an urgent necessity.
Africa threatened by sudden surge in coronavirus cases
By Kumaran Ira, 23 March 2020
The entire continent risks becoming infected with coronavirus, which could rapidly swamp its inadequate health systems, leading to a horrific death toll.
South Africa’s ANC government suppressed report showing thousands could die from COVID-19
By Stephan McCoy, 23 March 2020
The Ramaphosa government’s response to the pandemic has been exactly what the study warned against—slow and virtually nonexistent.
South Africa: State of national disaster declared as coronavirus hits and social tensions mount
By Stephan McCoy, 21 March 2020
The African National Congress (ANC) government lost weeks doing nothing to prepare for the inevitable arrival of the virus.
Strikes in Italy and Iran against exposure to coronavirus at work; South African bus strike threat over pay
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 March 2020
Workers in Iran and Italy, two countries heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, have staged job action over work exposure to the disease, while South African transport workers have issued a strike threat over failed contract talks.
Union sells out municipal workers’ strike in Reykjavik, Iceland; Lebanon: hospital strike in Beirut over government inaction over Covid-19
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 March 2020
The Efling union has sold out a three week strike by municipal workers in Iceland while hospital workers in Lebanon protest the government’s inept response to the coronavirus pandemic.
French workers continue struggle against attacks on pensions; Zimbabwe trade unions try to hold back general strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 March 2020
On Tuesday workers held marches to protest attacks on pensions by the Macron government while trade union officials in Zimbabwe are attempting to hold back demands for a general strike against spiralling inflation.
Iceland: indefinite public sector strike in Reykjavik; Air France pilots’ conduct stoppage; transport workers join South African museum strikers to petition parliament
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
28 February 2020
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Greece: 24-hour stoppage by public sector workers; Italian dockers boycott ships carrying arms bound for Yemen war; threats of further strikes in Zimbabwe
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
21 February 2020
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Union sells out forestry strike in Finland; South African telecom workers’ strike threat against redundancies; London bus drivers move to strike vote
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
14 February 2020
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President Trump expands anti-Muslim travel ban to thirteen countries
By Kevin Reed, 1 February 2020
Trump’s war on immigrants is intensifying in the aftermath of the impeachment trial and in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election in November.
Strike wave in Finland; police attack firefighters demonstrating in Paris
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
31 January 2020
Paper and other forestry workers in Finalnd have launched a series of strikes, while protesting French firefighters faced brutal attacks from police.
French power workers at Grand’Maison dam join pension strikes; 130,000 Turkish metalworkers threaten walk out
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 January 2020
French hydroelectric workers joined a strike movement against pension cuts while the union for 130,000 Turkish metalworkers are currently in talks with the Turkish Employers Association of Metal Industries for a pay increase.
The Libya conference and the new scramble for Africa
By Johannes Stern, 18 January 2020
The Berlin meeting is reminiscent of the infamous Congo Conference, also held in Berlin in 1884-85 and aimed at the complete colonization of Africa.
Nurses strike in Northern Ireland for pay parity; Zimbabwe municipal workers refuse pay offer as hospital strike continues and teachers plan walkout
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
17 January 2020
Thousands of Northern Ireland nurses struck for five days staring January 10 while Zimbabwe public sector workers have rejected a derisory pay offer.
Malians protest to demand departure of French occupation troops
By Alex Lantier, 16 January 2020
Anger is exploding against the carnage produced by the French war in Mali and against official lies that France is waging a global war on terror.
German defence minister supports combat operations in Africa
By Gregor Link and Peter Schwarz, 4 January 2020
Over the holidays, Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer reiterated her call for a massive expansion of the Franco-German campaign in the Sahel region.
Apple, Microsoft and Google among five companies sued over deaths of Congolese child miners
By Sam Dalton, 4 January 2020
Apple, Alphabet, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla are all accused in a lawsuit filed last month of knowingly using cobalt mined by children as young as six.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accepts Nobel Peace Prize
By Joe Williams, 28 December 2019
In accepting the prize, Ahmed joins a rogues’ gallery of imperialists, militarists, petty bourgeois nationalists, ethnic cleansers, and war criminals.
Zimbabwe four-month-long hospital strike continues; French rail workers to strike over Christmas defying unions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 December 2019
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Zimbabwe hospital doctors out for 15 weeks; German Amazon workers strike at three centres
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
20 December 2019
Doctors in Zimbabwe are continuing their walkout in the face of intensifying repression while 1,200 German Amazon workers protested low pay by staging a walkout.
Algerian and Palestinian general strikes; Zimbabwe’s striking doctors threats
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 December 2019
Workers in Algeria carried out a four-day general strike while Palestinians in Hebron struck and doctors in Zimbabwe are continuing their months-long struggle.
Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens to send troops into Libya
By Bill Van Auken, 12 December 2019
With Ankara and Moscow backing rival regimes in the ravaged country, any escalation threatens to spill over into a far wider and more dangerous war.
Indian oil workers strike against privatisation: Auto workers in Haryana protest in solidarity with striking Honda contract workers
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand
7 December 2019
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German Amazon workers walk out; Zimbabwe doctors and public sector continue 13-week stoppage
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 December 2019
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Croatian teachers’ strikes; healthcare workers’ stoppage in Northern Ireland; Zimbabwe unrest over runaway inflation continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
29 November 2019
Thousands of Croatian teachers are continuing strikes over pay while 25,000 health staff in Northern Ireland have taken industrial action and Zimbabwe unions have called a mass demonstration over deteriorating economic conditions.
National strike by Finnish postal workers continues; stoppages at UK colleges; South African Airline workers strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
22 November 2019
A strike by 9,000 Finnish postal workers is in its second week while instructors have struck several colleges in Britain and workers at state-owned South African Airlines struck last week.
National strike of postal workers in Finland; mass strikes in Algeria; struggles continue in Lebanon and Zimbabwe
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
15 November 2019
About 9,000 Finnish postal workers at the state-owned Posti walked out Monday while mass protests continue in Algeria and Lebanon and the strike by Zimbabwe doctors has spread following sackings.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe nurses join doctors’ stoppage; One-day nationwide strike by Dutch teachers
8 November 2019
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Five candidates contest December 12 Algerian election amid mass opposition
By Kumaran Ira, 7 November 2019
The field of candidates, who are all tools of the regime, vindicates the overwhelming opposition of workers and youth in Algeria to the elections.
Forty-nine Malian soldiers dead in Islamic State attack, as protests grow against French-led war
By Alex Lantier, 5 November 2019
The attack came last Friday on a Malian army outpost at Indelimane, near the border with Niger, as the seventh year of the French-led war in Mali was drawing to a close.
Croatian education workers strike continues, Zimbabwe doctors on strike for two months
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
1 November 2019
Seven hundred Croation educators have walked out in a program of rotating strikes while Zimbabwe doctors are continuing an action over the erosion of pay due to inflation.
National strike of Croatian educators; Zimbabwe doctors’ stoppage into seventh week
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
25 October 2019
Lecturers and non-teaching staff have called weekly walkouts to press for pay increases in Croatia, while doctors in Zimbabwe are locked in an increasingly bitter battle with the government.
Algerian junta to slash energy subsidies amid mass protests
By Kumaran Ira, 19 October 2019
Ahmed Gaid Salah’s military regime has approved a bill to pay off global oil and gas firms by slashing billions of dollars in subsidies for Algerian workers.
Zimbabwe doctors’ six-week strike continues in defiance of courts; German airline cabin crew to walk out Saturday
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 October 2019
Doctors in Zimbabwe are demanding their wages be pegged to the US dollar in the face of runaway inflation while Lufthansa cabin crew plan to strike Saturday over wages.
Iranian Haft Tappeh sugar workers’ strike resumes; Zimbabwe’s doctors’ five-week strike continues
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
11 October 2019
Workers at the Haft Tappeh sugar cane operation are continuing a struggle over job losses and pay while doctors in Zimbabwe are fighting over pay and overall conditions in the health system.
Greece hit by further 24-hour strike; Strikes and protests continue in South Africa
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
4 October 2019
On Wednesday Greek unions staged a one-day strike against right-wing changes in labour laws while strikes and protests are continuing in South Africa by bank workers, health workers, pilots, firefighters and other sections of workers.
A visit to the workers’ quarters at a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya
By our correspondents, 1 October 2019
How giant tea companies exploit Kenyan plantation workers
By Saman Gunadasa, 1 October 2019
Backbreaking work, meagre wages and brutal conditions assure super profits to global conglomerates.
Greek civil servants strike; UK postal workers strike ballot; South African bank workers to walk out
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 September 2019
Some 500,000 Greek civil servants struck Tuesday against labour law changes, while Royal Mail workers authorized strike action and 27,000 South African Bank workers are set to strike Friday.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
UK pilots’ union calls off British Airways strike, UK Ryanair strike goes ahead; Jordan’s teachers’ strike enters second week; union heads off South African auto strike
20 September 2019
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Slovenian pilots strike; Paris, France rail and metro strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
13 September 2019
Slovenian pilots carried out a three-day stoppage September 8 - 10 over contract issues while Paris Metro workers are set to strike Friday to protest adverse pension changes by the Macron government.
UK and Spanish Ryanair pilots continue strikes; first-ever national strike by Dutch care workers; South African Bank workers to strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
6 September 2019
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UK postal strike looms; British Airways pilots and Spanish Ryanair staff to strike; South African national truck strike call on social media
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 August 2019
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“This is a prison city”
Immigrants hold four days of protest outside Mexican detention center
By Alex González, 26 August 2019
Two hundred protesters staged sit-ins and blocked vans with migrants bound for deportation.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 August 2019
Portuguese truck drivers’ strike called off but dispute continues; further strikes by ground staff at Spain’s Barcelona airport; national strike at Nigeria’s universities
Threat of Ryanair strikes across Europe; Kenyan public workers in 15 counties are set to walk out
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
16 August 2019
More workers at Ryanair have voted to strike as the job action by Portuguese delivery drivers continues and Kenyan public sector workers are set to walk out Tuesday.
UK Ryanair pilots vote to strike; South Africa’s bank workers two-day national stoppage; Kenyan construction workers wildcat strike over pay and conditions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 August 2019
Ryanair pilots in Britain have given an 80 percent strike mandate while south African bank workers plan to protest massive job losses and Kenyan workers struck the multi-billion-shilling Thwake Dam construction project.
French-backed Libyan militia airstrike kills 42 civilians
By Alex Lantier, 7 August 2019
The bombing in the city of Murzuq was carried out by Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, which relies on support from Paris and Washington as well as Egypt.
South African jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim returns with The Balance
By Hiram Lee, 7 August 2019
This latest work stands out as an unusually open and humane collection of songs in a genre that has been lacking in those elements far too much in recent years.
UK Heathrow airport strike continues as pilots vote to strike; South Africa dockers defy unions
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 July 2019
In South Africa, dockworkers are continuing a two-week go slow in defiance of the unions.
UK Heathrow airport strike continues as pilots vote to strike; South African national rail strike; unions denounce South African dockers’ unofficial go-slow
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
27 July 2019
Some 4,000 workers carried out a two-day strike at London’s Heathrow airport while strikes continue in South Africa where dockworkers are continuing a two-week go slow in defiance of unions and rail workers carried out a one-day nationwide walkout.
“Amazon is a murderer and has to be stopped”
Amazon call center worker in Rabat, Morocco speaks out against company harassment
By Will Morrow, 13 July 2019
Ismaila N’Diaye, a 32-year-old former Amazon customer service employee in Rabat, said the life of his family has been torn apart by the company.
UK hospital in week-long strike; National strike threats on South Africa’s railways and Nigeria’s public sector
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 July 2019
Staff at Bradford hospitals struck against plans to transfer them to the employ of a private company, while thousands of South African railroad workers and Nigerian public workers are on strike.
Zimbabwe unions threaten general strike as walkouts spread in Nigeria
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 July 2019
The main Zimbabwe union federation has threatened a nationwide strike over the devaluation of currency while Nigerian dockworkers are set to strike this week over nonpayment of back wages joining civil servants and polytechnic staff.
Mass protests resume against Sudan’s junta
By Jean Shaoul, 2 July 2019
Protesters were met Sunday with tear gas, stun grenades and live ammunition that killed at least seven people and injured 181 more.
Italian and French dockers refuse to load ship to protest Saudi Arabia war in the Yemen; UK Bridgend Ford workers strike vote against closure
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
21 June 2019
Protests against the Saudi war in Yemen continued by French and Italian dockworkers, while Ford workers in Britain voted 83 percent for strike action against threats to shutter the facility.
At least 95 killed in massacre at Sobane Kou village in Mali
By Will Morrow, 12 June 2019
This is the latest in a series of massacres amid growing ethnic conflicts in Mali provoked by the French and German occupation of the country.
General strike against military regime brings Sudan to a standstill
By Niles Niemuth, 10 June 2019
Photos and video posted on social media showed empty streets and shuttered markets across the country.
French Nutella workers strike, Tram and metro workers’ stoppage in Greek capital
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
7 June 2019
Workers at the Nutella factory in Normandy have been blockading the plant over demands for a wage increase while Greek tram workers stopped work Monday to protest the Syriza government’s attacks on public transportation.
Military junta launches counter-revolution in Sudan
By Jean Shaoul, 6 June 2019
The counter-revolutionary bloodbath has killed some 100 people, including an eight-year old child, and injured hundreds more since Monday.
Military massacres protesters in Sudan
By Bill Van Auken, 4 June 2019
Dozens were killed and hundreds wounded Monday after troops broke up a sit-in in Khartoum with live ammunition.
South African elections
Ramaphosa elected to full term as president amid record low ANC vote
By Eddie Haywood, 13 May 2019
The election marks the first time in the ANC’s post-apartheid history that its vote has fallen below 60 percent.
Egypt stages referendum to institutionalize General Sisi’s dictatorship
By Bill Van Auken, 19 April 2019
The consolidation of the bloody police-state dictatorship enjoys the support of both Washington and the major European powers.
Pre-emptive military coup ousts Bashir to protect Sudan’s elite
By Jean Shaoul, 12 April 2019
Awad Ibn Auf, the minister of defence and deputy president, declared a three-month state of emergency, putting the country under military rule, and said that the army would oversee a two-year transitional period leading up to elections.
Libya’s descent into civil war: The bitter fruit of the pseudo-left's pro-imperialism
By Bill Van Auken, 10 April 2019
The escalating civil war in Libya has served as one more demonstration of the criminal role played by the pseudo-left proponents of “humanitarian” imperialist intervention.
Libya on the brink of all-out civil war
By Bill Van Auken, 9 April 2019
Eight years after the US and NATO launched a war for regime-change under humanitarian pretenses, conditions for the masses in Libya remain catastrophic.
Algerian army purges intelligence agencies as anti-regime protests grow
By Alex Lantier, 9 April 2019
Amid growing popular distrust of the army, the army is firing top intelligence officials implicated in the regime’s crimes during Algeria’s bloody 1992-2002 civil war.
Mass protests in Algeria follow Bouteflika’s resignation
By Will Morrow, 6 April 2019
As protesters denounced the fraudulent military-backed transition, the army released a statement yesterday threatening any opposition to its interests.
Bouteflika’s resignation as Algerian president to take place by April 28
By Alex Lantier, 2 April 2019
After six weeks of strikes and mass protests, the Algerian presidency set a deadline yesterday for the Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down.
Sixth Friday mass protest in Algeria demands fall of the regime
By Alex Lantier, 30 March 2019
After the army brass tried to defuse the situation by moving to impeach President Bouteflika, protesters called for bringing down the regime and the army.
Protests against Sudan’s al-Bashir regime enter fourth month
By Jean Shaoul, 30 March 2019
The protests take place amid the most sustained challenge to al-Bashir’s rule since he seized power in a 1989 coup.
Ogossagou massacre exposes rising bloodshed in European-occupied Mali
By Stéphane Hugues and Alex Lantier, 30 March 2019
Under occupation by French and German troops, Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, is being torn apart by bloody ethnic violence.
Extreme social crisis ravages Mozambique in wake of Cyclone Idai
By Eddie Haywood, 30 March 2019
The devastation in the storm’s wake has produced a full-blown humanitarian crisis, exposing the impoverished conditions already present before Cyclone Idai hit.
Thousands of young Moroccan teachers assaulted by anti-riot police
By Nancy Hanover, 26 March 2019
Contract teachers have struck the Northern African country of Morocco since March 3 and mass protests have escalated.
Historic humanitarian disaster unfolds in southeast Africa in the wake of Cyclone Idai
By Niles Niemuth, 22 March 2019
The powerful storm has tragically exposed the dire social and economic conditions facing millions in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Madagascar.
Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi face a humanitarian catastrophe in the wake of Cyclone Idai
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 20 March 2019
Mozambique’s president, Filipe Nyusi, reported that more than 1,000 people had been killed by high winds and widespread flooding.
Over one million protest extension of Bouteflika’s term in Algeria
By Will Morrow, 16 March 2019
Reports indicate that the demonstrations were even larger than last Friday, when more than one million people protested in Algiers alone.
Socialist Workers Party seeks to derail movement against Algerian regime
By Will Morrow and Alex Lantier, 16 March 2019
Algeria’s Socialist Workers’ Party seeks to tie protests to discredited bourgeois parties and block a revolutionary working class challenge to the regime.
The working class enters into struggle in Algeria
By Alex Lantier, 13 March 2019
The eruption of mass workers protests against the Algerian regime vindicate the ICFI’s struggle against Pabloite tendencies that claimed this regime would build socialism.
Algerian regime pledges fraudulent political “transition” as strikes spread
By Will Morrow, 12 March 2019
While Bouteflika has pledged not to seek a fifth term, this is to be achieved by postponing elections and extending his current term indefinitely.
Algerians in France protest in solidarity with strike wave in Algeria
By V. Gnana and Alex Lantier, 12 March 2019
On Sunday, Algerians organised protests again in Paris and Marseille, a week after a protest of 1,000 Algerians took place in Montreal, Canada.
Boeing jetliner crashes in Ethiopia, killing all 157 passengers and crew
By Eddie Haywood, 12 March 2019
The Ethiopian air disaster comes just five months after an Indonesian Lion Air passenger jet of the same model crashed, killing all 189 on board.
Uganda’s social media tax leads to sharp drop in internet users
By Eddie Haywood, 9 March 2019
The government of President Yoweri Museveni, in power for three decades, regards social media with intense hostility and suspicion.
Algerian workers in France speak out against Bouteflika regime
By V. Gnana and Alex Lantier, 6 March 2019
The anger that is erupting in mass protests against the Bouteflika regime in Algeria has provoked a wave of support in France.
Algerian protests continue after Bouteflika launches presidential bid
By Will Morrow, 5 March 2019
Speaking for the former colonial power, Le Monde published an editorial demanding that Bouteflika step down and warning that the situation risks spinning out of control.
Mass protests erupt in Algeria against Bouteflika’s bid for fifth term
By Alex Lantier, 2 March 2019
Amid a strike wave across North Africa, workers in youth are protesting across Algeria.
Strike wave shakes North Africa
By Kumaran Ira, 2 March 2019
After the “Arab Spring” in 2011, a new wave of strikes and demonstrations is shaking Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
Zimbabwe-South Africa summit: The Butcher of Marikana meets the Crocodile
By Stephan McCoy, 28 February 2019
Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Cyril Ramaphosa will meet in the Zimbabwean capital next month against a backdrop of deepening economic crisis and rising social discontent in both countries.
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
South African gold miners’ strike at Sibanye in third month, Kenyan striking nurses defy back to work order
22 February 2019
As the strike by workers at Sibanye gold mine continues, the company announced the closure of two mines costing 7,000 jobs. Meanwhile Kenyan nurses are defying a back to work order by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Thousands of teachers attacked by riot police in Morocco
By a reporter, 21 February 2019
The confrontation came in the midst of a general strike of Moroccan workers on the eighth anniversary of a revolt that was part of the 2011 “Arab Spring.”
Flooding of mines in Zimbabwe leaves 24 dead, dozens more missing
By Eddie Haywood, 21 February 2019
The mining tragedy comes amid an immense social and economic crisis wracking Zimbabwe, with skyrocketing inflation and mass unemployment.
Nigeria election commission abruptly postpones presidential poll
By Eddie Haywood, 18 February 2019
The contest between incumbent Muhammadu Buhari and chief rival Atiku Abubakar is in a virtual dead heat, with each candidate expected to take an even number of votes.
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa government clamps down on popular opposition
By Stephan McCoy, 18 February 2019
The ZANU-PF regime has responded to rising social discontent by unleashing the military.
Union federation stages national strike in South Africa
By Eddie Haywood, 14 February 2019
Tens of thousands of workers participated in the walkout, bringing economic activity to a near standstill across the country.
Five killed, 22 feared trapped in South African mine explosion
By Samuel Davidson, 13 February 2019
The explosion was at a mine owned by the Gupta brothers, who have close ties to former ANC leader and South African President Zuma.
Sudan’s anti-government protests enter sixth week
By Jean Shaoul, 31 January 2019
President Omar al-Bashir can count on the support of the region’s dictators, all of whom hate each other but fear their own working class more.
French President Macron visits the hangman of Cairo
By Will Morrow and Alex Lantier, 30 January 2019
Macron’s visit to Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is a warning that his government intends to drastically step up repression of the “yellow vests” and broader popular opposition.
Zimbabwe’s government cracks down on protest over fuel price increase
By Stephan McCoy, 18 January 2019
President Emmerson Mnangagwa finds himself at the head of a government that is increasingly viewed with hostility by the Zimbabwean population.
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