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IWD 2022 : Red Review #55 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, France, Greece, Cuba, Venezuela, the USA, Swaziland and elsewhere. There is also a special section related to...
Michael Laxer
May 2, 202213 min read


Huge crowds in Havana rally for IWD under the slogan Cuba Vive y Trabaja
For the first time in three years a mass rally was held in Havana to celebrate International Workers' Day. Under the slogan Cuba Vive y...
Michael Laxer
May 1, 20221 min read


New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor builds on China-Laos Railway success
Another remarkable example of the Belt and Road Initiative in action. Train leaves the Chinese city of Xi'an for the capital of Laos,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 28, 20222 min read


Red Review #54 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Cuba, Nicaragua, Greece, the USA, Mexico and elsewhere. Evo Morales with Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in Cuba, April 23...
Michael Laxer
Apr 25, 20225 min read


"We express deep concern over the deteriorating human rights conditions in the US" - Wang Wenbin
Wang Wenbin, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson of the People's Republic of China gave a powerful response on April 18 when asked a question...
Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20222 min read


Red Review #53 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from France, Venezuela, the USA, Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere. Thousands demonstrate against far right candidate Le Pen in Paris,...
Michael Laxer
Apr 18, 20228 min read


Starbucks and Amazon workers issue joint statement against union busting
Two of the most exciting union organizing efforts that the United States has seen in decades -- Starbucks Workers United and the Amazon...
Michael Laxer
Apr 16, 20222 min read


DPRK releases two remarkable historical overviews on anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth
The DPRK's Foreign Languages Publishing House has published two looks at the long friendship between the People's Republic of China, the...
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20221 min read


Red Review #52 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of links related to the ongoing...
Michael Laxer
Apr 11, 202212 min read


Justice for Sankara as Blaise Compaoré convicted
Image via Twitter While he is in exile due to being brought down by protests in 2014, Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was...
Michael Laxer
Apr 6, 20221 min read


Historic Amazon union win: Red Review #51 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from India, Venezuela, Bolivia, the UK and elsewhere. There are also sections about the historic Amazon union win in New York...
Michael Laxer
Apr 3, 202210 min read


Celebration and solidarity greet historic Amazon union win in New York
Chris Smalls speaks In a huge win for Amazon workers in the United States and US workers generally, workers at Amazon’s massive warehouse...
Michael Laxer
Apr 1, 20221 min read


Red Review #50 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Swaziland, Serbia, Canada, Greece, Cuba, Bolivia, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of updates related to the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 20229 min read


International Swaziland solidarity campaign launched amid ongoing repression
The Friends of Swazi Freedom are "calling on all progressives, revolutionaries, anti-colonialists, and anti-imperialists to join us" in...
Michael Laxer
Mar 25, 20223 min read


Starbucks workers score major symbolic Seattle win as US unionization wave expands
In a hugely symbolic union win, workers at a Seattle location of Starbucks have voted unanimously to unionize. The result was announced...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20222 min read


Riding association executive "deeply troubled" after ONDP blocks President from running
The executive of the Toronto area Eglinton-Lawrence Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) riding association has issued a statement...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 20222 min read


Red Review #49 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Greece, Australia, Panama, India, Canada, Colombia, Swaziland, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and elsewhere. There are also a...
Michael Laxer
Mar 21, 202218 min read


Left breakthrough in Colombia
Gustavo Petro speaks at March 13 election rally -- image via Twitter In what is being described as an "historic breakthrough" for the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 14, 20221 min read


Red Review #48 -- International Left and Labour News
With news from Portugal, Cuba, Venezuela, the USA, Canada, Slovenia, the UK, India and elsewhere. There is also a section related to the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 202212 min read


"The future has a Party. Freedom, Democracy, Socialism": The PCP at 101 years.
All images via the PCP website Hundreds of members and supporters of' the Portuguese Communist Party gathered for a mass rally at the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 10, 20224 min read
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