Tag: labour matters

With ‘Largest Coordinated Port Action Ever,’ Dockworkers in 22 Countries Strike Against Gaza Genocide

“We, the workers in the ports, know very well that without us nothing moves. Without our hands, containers remain still, ships are not loaded, the war machines are blocked.” Jake Johnson Common Dreams Dockworkers in more than 20 countries—from France to India to Greece—are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel’s… Read More With ‘Largest Coordinated Port Action Ever,’ Dockworkers in 22 Countries Strike Against Gaza Genocide

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Hridayesh Joshi: कुलदीप नैय्यर स्मृति सम्मान समारोह में वक्तव्य

हृदयेश जोशी, 24 अक्टूबर 2026 प्रिय आशीष नंदी जी, कुमार प्रशांत जी, चयन समिति के माननीय सदस्य और सम्मानित उपस्थित जन, लेखक और पत्रकार कुलदीप नैयर जी की स्मृति में दिये जाने वाले इस सम्मान के लिए मैं गांधी शांति प्रतिष्ठान और चयनकर्ताओं का तहेदिल से शुक्रिया अदा करता हूँ। इसे पाकर मैं जितना प्रसन्न… Read More Hridayesh Joshi: कुलदीप नैय्यर स्मृति सम्मान समारोह में वक्तव्य

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The ‘Total Strike’ Has Come for France

The people are in revolt, and the entire social order is collapsing Gen Z are leading the European protests. Here’s why they’re angry“Let’s… make ourselves heard for schools that don’t collapse on our heads, for safe and dignified work, for public healthcare, for social justice.” Italian student union leader Sabrina Brizzola Frédéric Lordon It’s like… Read More The ‘Total Strike’ Has Come for France

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Striking Back

The historic wave of labour unrest that swept India Zaen Alkazi {ONE} MORNINGS ARE TYPICALLY RUSHED at Hosiery Complex NOIDA, a prominent industrial hub in Uttar Pradesh. In the urban village of Yakubpur, thousands of migrant workers wake up in small and windowless rooms, rented from local Gurjar farmers, and get ready for work. They… Read More Striking Back

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‘We Were Simply Animals’

What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps By Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán, Eliezer Budasoff Translated from Spanish by John Gibler  For the past five years, Marcela Turati, Thelma Gómez Durán and Eliezer Budasoff have been investigating forced labour camps run by drug cartels in the Sierra Tarahumara mountains in the Mexican state… Read More ‘We Were Simply Animals’

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IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza

Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Julian Borger in Jerusalem A Palestinian driver bringing food aid from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) into Gaza has been killed by an Israeli soldier “in a field execution”, according to witnesses and the local truckers’ association, which said it may suspend operations in protest. Ahmad Esleem was shot in the head on… Read More IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza

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