Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » New York: Thousands protest seizure of Mahmoud Khalil March 12. Thousands of people came to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan before noon today to demonstrate their support for Palestinian activist and leader Mahmoud Khalil as a procedural hearing was taking place in the nearby federal court. ICE agents seized…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » New York: Thousands protest seizure of Mahmoud Khalil March 12. Thousands of people came to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan before noon today to demonstrate their support for Palestinian activist and leader Mahmoud Khalil as a procedural hearing was taking place in the nearby federal court. ICE agents seized…
Home » Global » Palestinian Postal Services Workers’ Union: A global appeal for solidarity This statement was issued by the Palestinian Postal Services Workers’ Union on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2025. On this International Women’s Day, the Palestinian Postal Services Workers’ Union (PPSWU) stands in solidarity with women worldwide, especially Palestinian women who endure…
Home » Global » Africa » Philadelphia: Militant march for IWWD 2025 Philadelphia, March 8, 2025 Around a thousand people rallied and marched on International Working Women’s Day here. The rally started at City Hall and then marched to Rittenhouse Square and back, stopping for street rallies along the way. It drew applause and fists…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » New York: Thousands protest seizure of Mahmoud Khalil March 12. Thousands of people came to Foley Square in downtown Manhattan before noon today to demonstrate their support for Palestinian activist and leader Mahmoud Khalil as a procedural hearing was taking place in the nearby federal court. ICE agents seized…
South Korea’s U.S.-backed President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from the Seoul Detention Center on March 8. Yoon was impeached on Dec. 27, 2024, for his role in ordering a right-wing coup, an order that failed earlier that month. Yoon’s release was based on a legal technicality, and it is already sparking some resistance and…
The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions posted the statement below on March 7, 2025. Humanity marks March 8 every year as International Women’s Day, foregrounding the contributions, struggles and sacrifices of women, especially working women, at all levels of society. Graphic: Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions. Photo websource: newunions.wordpress.com, March 7 As Palestinian…
The following statements from Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were reprinted by Resistance News Network on March 8, 2025. Palestinian women in Gaza protest Israeli occupation in March 2018. We appreciate the role of Palestinian women in our people’s struggle, salute the steadfast guardians and call for their protection from…
It was in the kitsch decor of his Mar-a-Lago residence that Donald Trump convinced allied central bankers and finance ministers that he was going to make them pay the United States’ debts De-dollarization, that is, using the dollar only at the national level of the United States and no longer in international trade, is the…
Voltaire, International Newsletter is a weekly newsletter on international politics. It features 10 to 15 pages of contextualized, sourced news items. Its aim is to enable you to follow the decline of the unipolar world and the emergence of a multipolar system. The newsletter is published in several languages. Several foreign ministries from different countries…
Voltaire Network | 7 March 2025 • In its Gaza plan, Egypt writes: “There will be no major international funding for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gaza if Hamas remains the dominant and armed political element on the ground, controlling local governance.” This is why Cairo proposed to remove Hamas and replace it with interim…
July 24 — A deal brokered by Turkey for the export of grain from both Ukraine and Russia presents a political problem for U.S. imperialism and its war aims. Washington’s response: ship more weapons. The landmark deal to move hundreds of tons of grain, if it moves forward, undermines U.S./NATO . . . Continue reading…
Home » U.S. and Canada » A higher education union’s response to Trump’s attacks Special to Workers World Higher education — colleges and post-secondary education — has been a target of right-wing, reactionary attacks for decades, but the Musk-Trump-MAGA grouping has brought a new, vicious intensity to this campaign. The Department of Education has threatened…
Voltaire, International Newsletter is a weekly newsletter on international politics. It features 10 to 15 pages of contextualized, sourced news items. Its aim is to enable you to follow the decline of the unipolar world and the emergence of a multipolar system. The newsletter is published in several languages. Several foreign ministries from different countries…
Voltaire Network | 7 March 2025 • In its Gaza plan, Egypt writes: “There will be no major international funding for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Gaza if Hamas remains the dominant and armed political element on the ground, controlling local governance.” This is why Cairo proposed to remove Hamas and replace it with interim…
• On 24 February, the third anniversary of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, President of the European Council António Costa and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen issued a joint statement which reads: “The European Union and its partners have acted swiftly and…
Guest commentary The author is a Portuguese Marxist and editor of the web magazine jornalmudardevida.net, where this article was published on March 4, 2025. Translation by John Catalinotto. The European politicians who bet everything on the war in Ukraine, piggybacking on the U.S., have been thrown into complete disarray by the turnaround personified by Donald…
Milwaukee, WI - june 15 marked the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, the day that Zionist paramilitaries began the violent removal of Palestinians from a majority of their historic homeland. Various organizations in Milwaukee, led primarily by American Muslims for Palestine and Students for...
Fight Back! interviewed Venezuelan trade union leader Jacobo Torres de Leon, the international coordinator for the Bolivarian Socialist Council of Workers at the Workers’ Summit...
The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented Monday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's statement comparing Crimea's reunification with Russia to the German reunification, joking that it...
Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump discussed anti-terrorism efforts at their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg...
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Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Samarkand today. In...
Plagued with rising crime and gang violence, and concerned about the threat of terrorism, Denmark has decided to employ its armed forces as border controls and guarding duties in order to release more police officers for other work.
Danish police are very busy keeping abreast...
Just before the opening of the Biarritz G7, an intense disinformation campaign was launched in the international press with the complicity of French President, Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. It aims to allow Europeans to control the Amazon, its minerals, its pharmaceutical treasures and its precious woods. Its purpose…
After the failure of Newsguard — the news rating system backed by a cadre of prominent neoconservative personalities — to gain traction among American tech and social media companies, another organization has quietly stepped in to direct the news algorithms of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Though different from Newsguard, this group,…
Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking new church law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks. The law provides whistleblower protections for anyone making…
A high-ranking Palestinian official says Emirati companies have been purchasing plots of Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds and then transferring their ownership to Israelis. Kamal Khatib, the deputy head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, made the remarks in an interview with Qatar’s pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera on Wednesday. Those firms…
VENEZUELAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON — A group of activists banding together as the “Embassy Protection Collective,” in defense of the sovereignty of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, defied orders by the U.S. government to vacate the premises by the 25th of April. Later in the morning, the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, condemned…
France says Iran's preparatory works to resume uranium enrichment are not in violation of the 2015 nuclear deal it signed with world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Following an order by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and in response to US President Donald Trump's pullout from…
According to media reports, a large-scale drone attack was launched in the early hours of September 14 against oil refineries of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company Saudi Aramco near the cities of Abqaiq and Khurais in the eastern part of the Kingdom. The Houthi Ansar Allah movement, now fighting against forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh…
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — “It’s sad how the United States is supporting this corrupt government,” Honduran political prisoner Edwin Espinal told MintPress News immediately after his release from prison, where he had spent 19 months. Edwin’s case — and the medieval violence to which U.S.-trained police in Honduras tried to subject me — perfectly illustrate the…
SANA’A, YEMEN — Yemen was once described as a living museum, but U.S. made bombs dropped by the Saudi-led Coalition’s jets have not only killed thousands of civilians and led to famine and the spread of disease but also pulverized the country’s rich architectural history and left its inimitable heritage at the mercy of the…
SANAA, YEMEN — “What happened, where am I?” muttered 44-year-old Adel Ali Ahmed al-Gheit, as neighbors pulled him from the rubble of his home after it was targeted by a Saudi airstrike. Al-Gheit lost his wife and children in the attack and later died after succumbing to his own injuries at the Amran General Hospital.…
Protesters took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday as the NATO summit continued in the Belgian capital. Demonstrators can be seen chanting slogans and holding banners. One of the them, Joselyne de Markten, explained her reasons for being at the rally. “We are protesting the growing militarism of the EU and the NATO member…
TORONTO — In a near repeat of Saudi Arabia’s feud with Qatar last year, the diplomatic spat between the Saudis and the Canadian government seems to have spiralled out of control after it began last Friday. Apparently beginning as a result of the Canadian Foreign Ministry’s decision to criticize via Twitter the Saudi government’s arrest…