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“However, the real outcome of events depends on whether opposition candidates, grassroots activists and ordinary Russians will be able to take to the streets and demand that the real, and not fake, election results be recognized.”

“The question is whether the leadership of the unions or Labour Party are willing or capable of mobilising people in action like the Florentine workers have or draw up realistic green transition plans like the Birmingham union.”

GKN: court blocks redundancies citing “Clear violation of workers' rights. There was a desire to limit the union's activity.”

As I write, the American media is filled with remembrances of the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, some of critical reflection, most in a patriotic vein, yearning for that moment of national unity. This is a fleeting interlude for a country consumed by internal conflicts.

“The hoped-for victory at GKN and success on 11 October could make a positive change in the relationship of forces between the classes”.

“From the beginning, the campaign's sole theme has been the ability of the main candidates to step into the shoes of the great Merkel. […] Fortunately, there has been more encouraging news! ”

“The PST section in Bejaia denounces this repressive drift which calls into question democratic freedoms and infringes on the fundamental rights of citizens.”

“Perhaps the increased influence of the confusionist, conspiracy movements and far-right parties and action groups, will provoke a more vigorous search for different forms of united action in defense of democratic rights and social justice.”

“In order to confront this situation, health care workers in Poland have joined together in the struggle.”

“Life demands us to stay joyful” – Berta Cáceres.

“Leftists must therefore oppose Islamophobic discourse developed and maintained by Western elites, governments and media against Islamic fundamentalist movements and denounce their repression by authoritarian regimes when it is the case in certain countries. But this principled position should not prevent us from supporting and fighting for radical change in MENA societies.”

Reda Ibrahim Farag, a former leader of the Egyptian revolutionary Marxist current, died in Cairo on 4 August 2021. He played an important role in the constitution and leadership of a revolutionary organization from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

“And despite pleas for the inclusion of women in the peace process that Washington conducted with the Taliban under Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, women's participation remained marginal.“

In Bolsonaro's Brazil, a new emblematic case of judicial repression is targeting leaders of the movement against land grabbing.

“The Al Mounadil-a current works with this vision, to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of national sovereignty (freedom from dependence on neo-colonial forces), popular sovereignty (the realization of democracy) and social justice (the overthrow of capitalism).”

“We believe that a socialist transformation will be needed in order to tear down the state structures of oppression and racism that political Zionism has created — which are now inextricably intertwined with Israeli and regional capitalism — and to open a future of national equality, democracy and freedom from oppression for Arab Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and minority communities in historic Palestine.”

As elsewhere, the Delta variant has become dominant in the Philippines, causing a new wave of infections, more serious than the previous one. Despite this, the Duterte presidency is acting as if the epidemic is already behind us.

On 14th July, two hundred families in the Briandene informal settlement north of Durban lost everything in a devastating fire. All houses and shacks were burnt down. This catastrophe was only one of many in the Durban area during days of looting, killings and destruction. The Briandene community is a member of the shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. AbM claims a membership of over 100,000 in five provinces, 74,000 of them in the Durban area where it was founded in 2005

Brazil's independence dates from 7 September 1822, when the Prince Regent ousted his father Joao VI and became Pedro 1st, Emperor of Brazil. An independence finally achieved without much drama and consolidated by a financial transaction between Brazil and Portugal under the auspices of Great Britain. It's the occasion of a military parade. It was this date that Brazil's beleaguered president Jair Bolsonaro had chosen to make a big show of strength.

On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Gilbert Achcar explores the consequences of attempted US expansionism in the ‘Greater Middle East'