A WIN discussion, March 2024. Watch HERE Nigeria, with a population of approximately 200 million, holds the title of the largest country in Africa. It ranks as the sixth-largest oil-exporting nation globally. However, despite its size and resources, it is the poverty capital of the world since 2018. This pervasive poverty is due to the effects of neoliberalism and capitalism. While the majority … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2024
Iran, the Continuous Struggles, what next?
The situation in Iran has been one of major protests and mass opposition to the Islamic Republic, most recently after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that erupted across the whole country. Even during this year alone, there have been non-stop protests and strikes in practically all industries and sections of the society. This month, elections were held, and official statistics have shown record … [Read more...]
International Workers’ Solidarity with the People of Palestine, Saturday 16th March 2024
WE WON AGAINST APARTHEID, WE MUST STOP GAZA GENOCIDE!
The call for international action comes from Jabu Nala-Hartley, whose mother led the South African metal workers against apartheid in the 1970s - 80s. Jabu is an Oxford City councillor who has joined others in resigning from the Labour Party in protest against Starmer’s support for the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Solidarity action must be strengthened; dockworkers in India, … [Read more...]
The Newham Frame-Up
Dark storm clouds are gathering: we are rapidly moving into a new period of open class war. The dying Tory government has curbed still further our right to strike, our right to protest, even our right to vote. Sunak’s menacing speech last week threatening a crackdown on “mob rule” was put into effect the very next day in the borough of Newham. Founder members of Newham Socialist Labour – the … [Read more...]
THE TRUTH ABOUT CANADA
A WIN meeting March 2024. Canada is often presented as a 'kinder, gentler' society than the global hegemon it shares a border with. Yet this myth is refuted by its genocidal dispossession of the Indigenous population, a long history of suppressing workers' rights, and the role of Canadian companies as global predators. The full complicity of the 'progressive' Trudeau government in the unfolding … [Read more...]