We republish this post from 2021-now more relevant than ever, as war criminal Erdogan tries to win the election by racist arresting and criminalising of Kurds labelled without proof as supporters of the PKK (now on a unilateral ceasefire).
Labeling of the PKK as a terrorist organization is controversial; as an array of organizations, people, and NGOs contend that the PKK does not engage in organized terrorist activities, or systemically target civilians.[45][46][47][48][49][50] In 2020, the supreme court of Belgium ruled that the PKK was not a terrorist organization, instead labeling the group as an actor in an internal armed conflict.[54][55]
PKK terrorists plotting on Working Women’s Day in Nusaybin before the Turkish NATO airforce demolished their city
In 2008 and in 2018 the EU court of Justice ruled the PKK was classified as a terror organization with a lack of due process.[51][52] However, the EU still classifies the PKK as a terror organization.[53] In 2020, the supreme court of Belgium ruled that the PKK was not a terrorist organization, instead…
While you may not know the names Kyedae Shymko, Kavieriona White, Julia Chavez, Evan Fishel, Justin Tine or Emmett Brooks, these six young and previously very healthy people were recently diagnosed with an alarming new plague plaguing our planet, «turbo-cancers,» and nearly all of them have recently passed away unexpectedly, and within hours or days […]
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 2021 made numerous grants to medical associations, consumer groups and civil rights organizations for the purpose of creating the appearance of widespread support for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, investigative journalist Lee Fang reported.
As the vaccine mandates rolled out in 2021, Pfizer stayed quiet on the question of mandates — but public health groups, patient advocacy groups, doctors’ associations, community groups and others, along with the Biden administration, actively advocated for vaccine mandates as a key measure to protect public health.
New disclosures from Pfizer, posted by Fang on his Substack, show that many of these same groups were taking money from Pfizer while they promoted the idea that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were “safe and effective,” despite a lack of scientific data to back those claims.
Prominent groups on the extensive list of those who took Pfizer funding
Europe accused of ‘neocolonialism’ for using vassal small island states to sway policy and continue ‘disgraceful plundering’ of distant waters
More than half of the EU’s delegation to a crucial body of tuna stock regulators is made up of fishing industry lobbyists, the Guardian’s Seascape project can reveal, as Europe is accused of “neocolonial” overfishing in the Indian Ocean.
The numbers could shed some light on why the EU recently objected to an agreement by African and Asian coastal nations to restrict harmful fish aggregating devices (FADs) that disproportionately harvest juvenile tuna. Stocks of yellowfin tuna are overfished in the Indian Ocean.
FADs are large floating rafts that attract fish by casting a shadow, making it easy…
Marine Deaths of harbour porpoise, dolphin, pilot whale, seals and other protected species following last August’s seismic blasting looking at the geology of the Irish Sea for a deep sub-sea nuclear dump have prompted calls for a halt and an investigation.
The CEO of West Cumbria Mining is providing advice to Govnt on “investigation techniques” including seismic blasting and deep boreholes for a deep nuclear dump next to his coal mine.
NUCLEAR DUMP SEARCH’S SEISMIC BLASTING AND MARINE DEATHS PROMPT CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION AND HALT INTO ANY NEW NUCLEAR DUMP TESTS.
A legal challenge has been threatened by campaigners against further seismic blasting in the search areas which include the Irish Sea and Allerdale’s Solway Firth area.
The Copeland seismic blasting went ahead for 20 days from the 1st August 2022 despite a petiton of over 50,000 signatures. The testing of the Copeland Irish Sea area centred off Sellafield was contracted by Nuclear Waste Services in their quest to find a place to dispose of high level nuclear wastes in a Geological Disposal Facility.
Seismic Airgun Blastings are so loud that they disturb, injure and kill marine life, travelling for hundreds of kms. Surveys for Sea Mining, navy sonar and map-making damage commercial fisheries and disrupt coastal economies. Blasts are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days to weeks injuring and killing hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins .
Environmental Lawyers Leigh Day acting for Lakes Against Nuclear Dump, a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign have now written to the Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey and to the Marine Management Organisation.
The letter includes an Appendix of “Events” beginning with strandings of protected species including dead seals and harbour porpoise at Drigg on the 8th August and includes deaths of dolphin, pilot whale and jellyfish (food for protected turtle species).
Nos encontramos ante una profunda crisis, que va en aumento, cuyos orígenes están en nuestra forma de producir, procesar y distribuir los alimentos. El bienestar del planeta, la salud de sus habitantes y la estabilidad de las sociedades sufren la amenaza severa de una agricultura globalizada e industrial que se rige por la avaricia y la rentabilidad. Las presiones de un modelo ineficaz, irracional y no sostenible de producción de alimentos están llevando a la destrucción al planeta, sus ecosistemas y las diversas especies que lo habitan. La comida, cuya finalidad principal es proporcionar salud y alimento, constituye hoy en día el mayor problema de salud que hay en el mundo: casi mil millones de personas son víctimas del hambre y la desnutrición, dos mil millones padecen enfermedades como la obesidad y la diabetes y un sinfín de ellas sufren otras —incluido el cáncer— ocasionadas por los agentes tóxicos que…
El capitalisme continua avançant dia a dia, apropiant-se cada cop de més esferes de la nostra vida. Ens roba el temps i la vida a canvi d’un salari, amb el que cada dia és més difícil viure de forma digna.
Ens roba desmantellant i precaritzant els serveis públics, ens roba apropiant-se, privatitzant i monopolitzant cada cop més recursos bàsics per al sostén de la vida, com l’habitatge, l’energia, l’aigua, la terra o els aliments.
Ens roba rebaixant les pensions i allargant la vida laboral, mentre la joventut pateix un atur crònic. Al capitalisme li sobren diners per augmentar el pressupost militar per l’OTAN i diu que no en te per la sanitat.
Un capitalisme neocolonial que no conforme amb extreure els recursos naturals del sud global, explota a les migrants que venen fugint de la violència i devastació, al treball de la llar i les cures, al treball sexual, al treball agrícola i a tota sort d’oficis informals sense dret a l’atur, a pensió o a qualsevol tipus de garanties laborals.
Amb un govern mentider que no s’atreveix ni a derogar la Llei mordassa, que no retira les parts més lesives de les reformes laborals, tal com va prometre.
Amb un govern agenollat als poders econòmics, que aprova una llei d’habitatge més en clau electoralista, que no pas a garantir l’accés a un habitatge digne. I amb la lluita del poble francès contra la reforma de les pensions gravada a les retines, ens plantegem que ja n’hi ha prou de retrocedir davant els embats del capital.
És per això que volem passar a l’ofensiva, per recuperar terreny al capitalisme i recuperar tot allò que ens està robant. I ho farem engegant lluites allà on hi hagi injustícies. Empresa a empresa recuperant drets i millorant les condicions laborals.
Sector a sector unint plantilles i millorant convenis. I ho farem carrer a carrer, combatent el discurs neoliberal i individualista, barri a barri, poble a poble construint comunitats de lluita.
Ho farem articulant una lluita comuna entre treballadores i usuàries en defensa d’uns serveis públics de qualitat.
Per això és necessari enfortir les organitzacions de la classe treballadora, ELS SINDICATS. Els sindicats de classe i autònoms de tot poder polític o econòmic i independents de les subvencions estatals.
Enfortint el sindicalisme que no creu en la concertació social de les poltrones, que sap que per negociar amb el capital s’ha de trencar la pau social i pressionar.
Per tot això és necessari la confluència de les lluites i les organitzacions de classe que planten cara als diferents fronts de la despossessió capitalista.
La confluència amb el moviment per l’habitatge, amb el moviment migrant, amb el moviment pensionista, amb el feminisme de classe, amb l’ecologisme radical, amb l’economia social i solidària, i amb totes aquelles organitzacions que ens vulguin acompanyar en aquesta ofensiva de lluita.
Per això aquest primer de maig la Taula Sindical de Catalunya, fem una crida a la classe treballadora a iniciar una ofensiva contra la classe capitalista que ens vol cada dia més empobrits i agenollats.
Fem una crida a les organitzacions anticapitalistes a fixar-se més en el que ens uneix que no en el que ens separa, i a engegar un nou cicle de lluita per a organitzar la indignació, i construir un contrapoder que ens permeti recuperar terreny al capital.
Derogació de la reforma laboral
Derogació de la llei mordassa i la llei d’estrangeria
Per unes pensions dignes i la reducció de l’edat de jubilació
Barcelona, May 1st: ‘Class Offensive’, May 1st Demo of Alternative Trade Unionism / Catalan/ English
Published on April 25, 2023 / by KaosEnLaRed
Capitalism continues to advance day by day, appropriating more and more spheres of our lives. It steals our time and life in exchange for a salary, with which every day it is more difficult to live in a dignified way.
It steals from us by dismantling and making public services precarious, it steals from us by appropriating, privatizing and monopolizing more and more basic resources to support life, such as housing, energy, water, land or food.
It steals from us by lowering pensions and extending working life, while the youth suffer from chronic unemployment. Capitalism has money left over to increase the military budget for NATO and says it doesn’t have any for healthcare.
A neo-colonial capitalism that is not satisfied with extracting the natural resources of the global south, exploits the migrants who come fleeing violence and devastation, in domestic and care work, in sex work, in agricultural work and in all kinds of informal trades with no right to unemployment, pension or any type of employment guarantee.
With a lying government that does not even dare to repeal the Gag Law, that does not remove the most harmful parts of the labor reforms, as it promised.
With a government on its knees to the economic powers, which approves a housing law more in an electoral key, than to guarantee access to decent housing.
And with the fight of the French people against the pension reform etched on our retinas, we consider that it is time to stop the retreat before the onslaughts of capital.
This is why we want to go on the offensive, to regain ground from capitalism and recover everything that it is stealing from us.
And we will do it by starting fights wherever there are injustices. Company by company recovering rights and improving working conditions. Sector by sector joining templates and improving agreements.
And we will do it street by street, fighting the neoliberal and individualist discourse, neighborhood by neighborhood, village by village, building communities of struggle.
We will do this by articulating a common struggle between workers and users in defense of quality public services.
That is why it is necessary to strengthen the organizations of the working class, THE TRADE UNIONS. Class and autonomous unions of all political or economic power and independent of state subsidies.
Strengthening unionism that does not believe in the social concertation of the armchairs, that knows that in order to negotiate with capital you have to break the social peace and put on pressure.
For all this, the confluence of the struggles and class organizations that face the different fronts of capitalist dispossession is necessary.
The confluence with the housing movement, with the migrant movement, with the pension movement, with class feminism, with radical environmentalism, with the social and solidarity economy, and with all those organizations that want to accompany us in this fighting offensive.
That’s why this first of May, from the Taula Sindical de Catalunya (Trade Union Platform of Catalonia) we call on the working class to start an offensive against the capitalist class that wants us to be more impoverished and on our knees every day.
We call on the anti-capitalist organizations to focus more on what unites us than on what separates us, and to start a new cycle of struggle to organize outrage, and build a counter-power that allows us to regain ground in capital.
Repeal of the labor reform
Repeal of the gag law and the foreigner law
For decent pensions and the reduction of the retirement age
