Around 365,000 public sector workers in Portugal hold one-day national pay strike; UK rail dispute continues with more strike days announced, as postal and university lecturers walk out over pay, jobs and conditions; South Africa’s public sector holds one-day pay strike in all provinces but Western Cape where unions cancel strike and oppose unity with striking taxi drivers
Teachers across Europe continue widespread strikes over funding, pay and conditions, joined by mass walkouts by French high school students; Greek healthcare workers on 24-hour national strike over funding and staff shortages fear collapse of healthcare system under impact of winter flu and COVID; rail strikes over pay, pensions and job losses continue in the UK, with further strikes planned by postal and telecom workers; Iranian Haft Tappeh sugar factory workers join protests entering fifth week over death of Mahsa Amini; South Africa’s Transnet workers’ unions agree below-inflation deal to end two-week strike as public sector plan national pay stoppage
On October 5th, Education International and its affiliates around the globe celebrated World Teachers' Day in many different forms. Some affiliates approached the day with events, raised awareness, seminars and demonstrations.They all reaffirmed their commitment to transform education and ensure quality public education for all.
Various authors - Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.
On June 9, Junge Welt published an article advocating an "anti-militarist defeatism" and the abandonment of Ukraine's military resistance to the Russian war of occupation.[1] We take their article as an opportunity for a fundamental response about a necessary anti-imperialist, ecosocialist perspective committed to global solidarity.