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Nigeria: Live ammunition fired at anti-police brutality protesters
By Jean Shaoul, 30 October 2020
A Lagos-based soldier, speaking anonymously to Reuters, said soldiers from the army 81st Division’s 65th Battalion, based at Bonny Camp, had fired on unarmed civilians at the toll gate.
Zimbabwe nurses’ and teachers’ strikes continue; National auto strike in South Africa; First national strike by doctors in Spain for 25 years
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
30 October 2020
Zimbabwean nurses face government threats to contract as strike continues for PPE and living wage; teachers’ strike in Zimbabwe threatened as unions write begging letter to government; national auto strike brings production in quarter of industry to halt.
Clashes erupt in Guinea-Conakry as Condé declared president for third term
By Anthony Torres, 27 October 2020
The week that has unfolded since the election was marked by violent clashes between supporters and opponents of Guinea’s long-time president.
ICE uses torture to pressure African asylum seekers to agree to deportation
By Meenakshi Jagadeesan, 26 October 2020
In a blatant violation of international law and the US constitution, ICE officials in the privately run detention center in Mississippi have been forcing asylum seekers from Cameroon to sign their own deportation forms and quickly shipping them back on secret flights.
Nigerian airport workers one-day strike; council workers continue land occupation in Zimbabwe; ballots for strikes by UK workers at Rolls Royce factory, Scottish university academic staff vote to strike
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
23 October 2020
Nigerian Federal airport workers stage one-day warning strike under conditions of mass unemployment, poverty and inequality in Africa’s largest country—which has fueled mass protests against state violence.
Nigerian government clamps down on protests
By Jean Shaoul, 23 October 2020
The deployment of Nigeria’s army followed its announcement last week that it was ready to maintain law and order and deal decisively with “subversive elements and troublemakers.”
Nigerian government unleashes massacre against police brutality protesters
By Bill Van Auken, 20 October 2020
Nigeria’s protests against police brutality are also fueled by popular anger over conditions of mass unemployment, endemic poverty and unprecedented social inequality in Africa’s largest country.
Nigerian anti-police protests continue and garner international support
By Jean Shaoul, 20 October 2020
The dire social conditions are the product of colonial and neocolonial oppression by the imperialist powers on behalf of their banks and corporations, exacerbated by the venal and corrupt rule of the national bourgeoisie.
Protests against police brutality in Nigeria amid economic catastrophe
By Stephan McCoy, 16 October 2020
The protests were sparked by the killing of a young man in Delta State, in southern Nigeria, during a stop-and-search operation on October 3, although the police denied that Special Anti-Robbery Squad officers were involved.
Greek public sector 24-hour strike; Amazon workers in Germany walk out; Nigerian workers in Kwara state resume wage strikes
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16 October 2020
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Pandemic fuels class struggle across Africa
By Jean Shaoul, 15 October 2020
The working class is manifesting its discontent with the situation in a resurgent wave of political radicalisation that had briefly abated after the onset of the pandemic.
One-day nationwide strike against South African ANC government
By Jean Shaoul, 9 October 2020
The mass walkout is part of a broader wave of struggles by workers in recent months that have seen repeated actions by healthcare workers, municipal workers, bus drivers, teachers and workers in meat processing plants, steel works and warehouses.
National public sector strike in South Africa; health workers’ stoppage spreads in Kenya; union ends long-running dispute at London’s Tate Gallery
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
9 October 2020
Thousands of South African workers held a nationwide strike Wednesday, while the PCS union ended the stoppage at the Tate art galley’s commercial arm after 42 days of strike action, with a deal that includes job losses.
Zimbabwean teachers refuse to work as government reopens schools without COVID-19 protection
By Stephan McCoy, 9 October 2020
Teachers are demanding that as frontline workers they should have regular testing, adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), and risk allowances before they are prepared to start work again.
British Gas strike vote; Nigerian unions sabotage struggle against price hikes; South African textile workers vote for national strike
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2 October 2020
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Zambia seeks suspension of debt service payments in Africa’s first pandemic-related default
By Stephan McCoy, 30 September 2020
The threat of the continent’s first COVID-related default testifies to the scale of the economic disaster affecting much of sub-Saharan Africa.
With one million dead, governments abandon efforts to contain COVID-19 pandemic
By Andre Damon, 30 September 2020
The fall and winter months in America and Europe are expected to bring a major resurgence of the disease.
Strikes by Greek doctors and ferry workers, UK’s London underground rail drivers’ strike vote, South African health workers continue protests over pay and COVID-19 safety measures
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25 September 2020
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Retail workers continue protests in Ireland and UK; South African and Nigerian health workers walk out; union sells out Zimbabwe nurses’ strike
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18 September 2020
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Floods inundate Sudan amid escalating economic crisis
By Jean Shaoul, 14 September 2020
The hardest hit has been the capital Khartoum, where the Blue and White Nile Rivers meet, as the Nile burst its banks, demolishing everything in its way.
National stoppage planned in France over job losses; Nigeria’s doctors resume strike for PPE; South African protests for PPE met with police brutality
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11 September 2020
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French NPA’s Révolution permanente site hails pro-imperialist coup in Mali
By Alex Lantier, 25 August 2020
This web site, linked to the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) of Argentina, hailed a putsch led by a junta of colonels that has proclaimed its loyalty to the French occupation of Mali.
Sudanese refugee drowns attempting to cross English Channel
By Robert Stevens, 21 August 2020
Family members say the victim had his claim for asylum in France refused, and risked the dangerous sea crossing seeking a better life.
Tensions rise as Zimbabwe’s economy implodes
By Stephan McCoy, 20 August 2020
There is widespread speculation about a possible coup to depose President Mnangagwa.
Beached Japanese cargo ship causes ecological disaster for Mauritius
By Tom Casey, 14 August 2020
The MV Wakashio began leaking thousands of metric tons of fuel after it collided with a coral reef barrier near the southern coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Report charges US-Saudi arms sale ignored civilian casualties
By Bill Van Auken, 13 August 2020
The report on the $8.1 billion arms deal came amid fresh reports from Yemen of atrocities caused by US-supplied Saudi warplanes and munitions.
New York University withholds completed dental degree, student facing deportation
By Sam Dalton, 8 August 2020
Despite their completion of coursework, an international student faces deportation because they are unable to pay exorbitant tuition costs and fees.
Africa’s one million coronavirus cases “the tip of the iceberg”
By Stephan McCoy, 8 August 2020
Between June and July, the number of cases grew by 500 percent indicating that COVID-19 is more widespread than the official figures suggest.
Maltese doctors’ action against spread of COVID-19; Iranian oil workers continue strikes; Zimbabwe doctors’ and nurses’ stoppage spreads.
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7 August 2020
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Zimbabwe: Government repression as social unrest mounts
By Stephan McCoy, 5 August 2020
The crackdown gives the lie to the claims that Mnangagwa would bring an end to tyranny, corruption, and social misery.
South Africa has the world’s fifth highest COVID-19 cases
By Stephan McCoy, 27 July 2020
The rate at which detected cases are doubling in the country, about every two weeks, implies that confirmed infections will be one million early August.
Zimbabwe: Social unrest grows amid economic collapse
By Stephan McCoy, 25 July 2020
Security forces have used COVID-19 lockdown laws to arrest nurses striking over poverty wages, appalling work conditions and lack of personal protective equipment.
Icelandair cabin crew reject contract, threatened with sacking; Israel’s nurses, social workers strike; Zimbabwe nurses’ strike continues
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24 July 2020
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Health care workers take action to preserve lives as COVID-19 spreads throughout Africa
By Stephan McCoy, 17 July 2020
From the onset of the pandemic, health care workers across the continent sounded the alarm over the lack of staff as well as ventilators and ICU beds.
French-backed security forces in the Sahel guilty of mass extrajudicial executions
By Will Morrow, 10 July 2020
The report exposes the Franco-German-led war as a neo-colonial intervention to subjugate the resource-rich and geo-strategically critical region and its population.
Riots in Ethiopia over assassination of Oromi singer/activist Hachalu Hundessa
By Jean Shaoul, 9 July 2020
In Addis Ababa, at least 10 people were killed in clashes with the police and many more were injured. Similar clashes took place throughout Oromia, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine ethnically based regions.
South Africa sees surge in COVID-19 as restrictions lifted
By Stephan McCoy, 8 July 2020
South Africa is now the country with the second highest number of deaths on the African continent, behind Egypt, and the largest number of cases.
Bombing of Turkey’s Watiya base escalates Franco-Italian proxy war in Libya
By Alex Lantier, 8 July 2020
The decade-long civil war between rival imperialist-backed warlords triggered by the 2011 NATO war in Libya is spiraling out of control.
Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases surge as oil price slump deepens social crisis
By Stephan McCoy, 7 July 2020
As of July 5, the country had recorded nearly 29,000 confirmed cases and 635 deaths, a more than sixfold increase following the government’s reopening of the economy at the end of March, just a few weeks after imposing a lockdown.
Pandemic spirals out of control in South Africa, India, Brazil
By Bryan Dyne, 4 July 2020
The official tallies in each country of daily confirmed coronavirus cases have become exponential, indicating that whatever containment measures were implemented to halt the spread of the virus have essentially collapsed.
Zimbabwe nurses strike as economic crisis brings threat of second coup and military dictatorship
By Stephan McCoy, 4 July 2020
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is preparing to confront mounting opposition in the working class through dictatorial forms of rule and the abrogation of democratic rights—even as it is threatened by the possibility of a coup.
Coronavirus accelerating in Africa as cases top 300,000
By Stephan McCoy, 26 June 2020
The World Health Organisation has warned that up to 10 million will be infected over the coming three to six months and that 300,000 people will die on the African continent.
Thousands of Iranian sugarcane workers strike for second week; clothing workers’ stoppage in Lethoso; Zimbabwe nurses and doctors protests and strike
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26 June 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the global plight of refugees and migrant workers
By Jordan Shilton, 24 June 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to tear through the global population, the disease is having an especially devastating impact on the tens of millions of displaced people throughout the world.
Tens of thousands rally in French-occupied Mali for resignation of president
By Will Morrow, 22 June 2020
The protests are driven by anger over rising inequality, the government’s negligent response to the coronavirus pandemic, and extrajudicial killings by security forces.
Financier of 1994 Rwandan genocide Félicien Kabuga arrested in Paris
By Jacques Valentin, 20 June 2020
Kabuga, who financed and helped equip the genocidal Interahamwe militias, had been located by police in 2007 but was still living quietly in the Paris suburbs.
ANC imposes back to work drive amid sharp rise in South Africa’s coronavirus cases
By Stephan McCoy, 20 June 2020
More than 84,000 people—25 percent of Africa’s confirmed cases—have now been infected with the virus, which has claimed the lives of almost 1,800 people.
Strike vote by Dutch steelworkers, Nigerian doctors prepare for indefinite walkout; South African airline workers protest
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12 June 2020
Unanimous strike vote at Dutch Tata steel plant while Nigerian doctors have set June 15 as the date for a nationwide walkout while employees of airline South African Express staged a protest in Pretoria, South Africa over non-payment of wages.
Zambia’s bid for IMF rescue deal thwarted by Washington’s anti-China campaign
By Jean Shaoul and Stephan McCoy, 5 June 2020
Zambia has been caught in the crosshairs of US President Donald Trump’s reckless campaign to undermine China, which he views as a threat to US global dominance.
Spanish workers protest Nissan job losses; South African Macsteel metalworkers walk out against pay cut; strike threats by hospital workers in UK, Iceland
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5 June 2020
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Germany and EU expand military deployment in Africa
By Gregor Link, 2 June 2020
German imperialism sees the crisis as an opportunity to assert its global geopolitical interests by force of arms.
Spanish Nissan strike against job losses; Italian electrical workers threaten stoppage against redundancies; South African hospital wildcat strike for PPE
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29 May 2020
An indefinite strike by 40 Spanish autoworkers at Nissan’s Zona Franca and Montcada sites in Barcelona began on May 4.
East Africa: Millions face triple disasters of floods, locusts and COVID-19
By Stephan McCoy, 27 May 2020
With water levels rising, some 40 million people living in major cities are at a heightened risk of flooding and infrastructure damage.
UK postal workers in Peterborough walk out; unions back reopening of French Amazon; Belgian medics protest
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22 May 2020
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World Health Organisation warns pandemic could “turn the clock back” on other killer diseases in Africa
By Stephan McCoy, 21 May 2020
The WHO has predicted that some quarter of a billion Africans will become infected with COVID-19 and as many as 190,000 will die within the first year of the pandemic.
Nigeria: COVID-19 compounds economic recession provoked by oil price slump
By Stephan McCoy, 12 May 2020
Medical and other experts are against the easing of restrictions, with the National Medical Association and the Federal Capital Territory Youth Task Force on COVID-19 both asking Buhari not to ease the lockdown.
Strikes and workers’ protests mount against “back to work” campaign
By Shannon Jones, 9 May 2020
The incompetence and callous disregard for human life by the capitalist authorities in country after country is fueling an upsurge in the class struggle.
Number of COVID-19 cases hits 4 million worldwide
By Benjamin Mateus, 9 May 2020
The number of deaths has exceeded 275,000 and infections are growing. Yet, the stock markets continue to rise, despite unprecedented job losses.
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8 May 2020
South African nurses’ stayaway defies premature lockdown end; health workers in South Africa, Kenya, refuse workers in UK, demand personal protection equipment.
South Africa: ANC government orders a partial return to work amid mounting economic crisis
By Stephan McCoy, 5 May 2020
The lockdown has caused grave hardship for millions of South Africa’s 60 million people, with videos of people waiting in kilometres-long queues for charity food aid going viral.
Record 50.8 million people internally displaced in 2019
By Jean Shaoul, 2 May 2020
The plight of tens of millions of internally displaced people is virtually ignored, attracting little global attention during the escalating global pandemic.
French teachers’ strike threat against premature end to lockdown; South African and Zimbabwean nurses protest lack of PPE
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
1 May 2020
Protests are continuing against attempts to restart operations in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic without proper safeguards, including French teachers, German doctors and nurses in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Protests in Somalia after police killing during pandemic lockdown
By Stephan McCoy, 28 April 2020
The protests reflect a broader anger towards the brutal methods utilized by the security forces during the curfew
Workers protests continue over lack of personal protective equipment; South African unions back premature reopening of the mines
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
24 April 2020
Workers protests continued over lack of protective equipment as South African miners mobilized to oppose a premature return to work.
Renewed Ebola outbreak threatens the Congo as COVID-19 spreads
By Anthony Torres, 23 April 2020
Already afflicted by a growing COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen three new Ebola cases including two deaths in recent weeks.
Workers protest lack of personal protective equipment as unions support premature back to work drive
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17 April 2020
Fiat Chrysler in Italy has set May for the resumption of partial production while nurses in Ireland, South Africa and Malawi stage protests against lack of personal protective equipment.
Ugandan government touts malarial drug chloroquine as a COVID-19 cure
By Stephan McCoy, 15 April 2020
Uganda’s government has taken a leaf from US President Donald Trump’s playbook in promoting the untested drug as a potential lifesaver.
African economies in free fall as coronavirus pandemic worsens
By Stephan McCoy, 11 April 2020
An African Union study predicts that some 20 million jobs are at risk in Africa due to the impact of the pandemic.
Africa’s refugees and internally displaced: The weakest link in the human chain
By Jean Shaoul, 8 April 2020
As the pandemic spreads to Africa, Asia and Latin America, the coronavirus will hit the world’s most vulnerable even harder.
Africa’s elite build VIP hospitals for themselves, leaving workers to die
By Stephan McCoy, 8 April 2020
The response of the African ruling elite has been to cocoon itself in luxury, distancing from the impoverished masses it views with hostility and fear.
African continent in social and economic chaos as official COVID-19 cases hit 10,000
By Stephan McCoy, 6 April 2020
The coronavirus crisis has exposed African governments’ lack of preparation for the pandemic, which was both foreseeable and foreseen.
Africa’s confirmed cases rise to 7,600, as 314 die from the coronavirus
By Stephan McCoy, 4 April 2020
The response of African governments has been to ramp up the powers of the state and impose brutal lockdowns with virtually no mass testing, contact tracing or isolation taking place.
El-Sisi uses coronavirus pandemic to tighten grip on Egypt
By Jean Shaoul, 3 April 2020
Egypt did nothing to prepare for the onset of the virus, despite being identified in early February, along with Algeria and South Africa, as one of the African countries most at risk.
Health workers in South Africa and Kenya striking for personal protection equipment against coronavirus face police attacks
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3 April 2020
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at nurses at Bongani Regional Hospital in Welko, South Africa protesting over unsafe travel arrangements while nurses walked out in Kenya over health and safety concerns.
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa exceeds 6,000 with more than 200 deaths
By Stephan McCoy, 2 April 2020
The UN recently warned that half of all jobs could be lost on the African continent due to the disruption caused by the pandemic.
Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 approaching 5,000
By Stephan McCoy, 30 March 2020
The need for an internationally coordinated response to stop the spread of the coronavirus on the African continent is urgent.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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27 December 2019
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Zimbabwe hospital doctors out for 15 weeks; German Amazon workers strike at three centres
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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.
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