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Pandemics: Italy braced for unrest as Covid pass becomes mandatory for all workers

Strictest vaccine mandate in Europe expected to bring fresh protests and leave some industries struggling with staff shortages
Italy is bracing itself for further unrest and labour market mayhem as the strictest vaccine mandate in Europe takes effect on Friday.
All workers will be obliged to present a coronavirus health pass before entering their workplaces, a move that is expected to leave some industries struggling with staff shortages.
The measure, an expansion of the “green pass” (...)

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United States: Haitian migrants brutalised and deported at US-Mexico border

United States president Joe Biden continues to show his government's true face in the mass deportation of Haitian migrants.
In mid-September, nearly 15,000 Haitian migrants, peacefully camped under a bridge on the Mexico-Texas border, were rounded up by US border patrol agents on horseback, some using their reins as whips.
They were dragged onto buses and planes and deported without due process.
Haitian migrants simply want a chance to live and work in the US. They arrived as word spread (...)

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United Nations OHCHR: Honour slain French teacher Samuel Paty by defending rights, defying fundamentalism – UN experts

GENEVA (15 October 2021) – On the first anniversary of the murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty, UN experts paid tribute to his commitment to teaching human rights values and said the best way to honour him is to defy fundamentalism and defend human rights.
Mr. Paty was beheaded by an extremist on 16 October 2020 near the school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, outside of Paris, following a social media campaign that misrepresented his attempts to teach freedom of (...)

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Explainer : what exactly is the Quad (Australia, India, Japan and the US) and what's on the agenda for their Washington summit ?

On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit.
Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the attendees are slated to discuss a series of big issues, from COVID-19 to cybersecurity, but China will dominate the conversation.
So, what exactly is the Quad and what is it aiming to do ?
A difficult start
The Quad first came together in May 2007, when diplomats from the four countries convened on the sidelines of an Association (...)

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United States – Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike?

Last Friday's jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobsgrowth and fretted that“hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won't be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about inflation.” For CNN, it was “another disappointment”. For Bloomberg the “September jobs report misses big for a second straight month”.
The media failed to report the big story, which is actually a very good one: (...)

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Die Linke's Defeat Is a Dire Warning for the Left

In September's German election, the socialist Die Linke party slumped to under 5 percent support. If the Left is to recover, it needs to show that it's still on the side of disenfranchised working-class voters.
There's no sense putting lipstick on a pig: the German federal election, in which the socialist party Die Linke won only 4.9 percent of the vote, was an unmitigated disaster for the Left.
In the September 26 vote, the party's support was nearly halved, compared to the last such contest (...)

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Philippines: How to make a damning documentary about a world-class liar

The Kingmaker director Lauren Greenfield talks about her revealing Imelda Marcos documentary.
Lauren Greenfield has built a career partly on chronicling excess. In films like The Queen of Versailles (2012) and Generation Wealth (2018), the documentarian explores the fabulous, over-the-top wealth concentrated among tiny numbers of people, providing a window into extravagance that seems to teeter on the edge of the tragic — all this money, and for what?
So it's fitting that her new film The (...)

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Biden Focuses U.S. Foreign Policy on Challenging China

President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America's two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter. With the world's second largest economy, still growing phenomenally at almost 8 percent per year, with it's multi-trillion dollar belt-and-road initiative expanding its economic reach through Asia and to Europe and Africa, and with its leader Xi Jimping's promise to make his country a “world class” military power being gradually (...)

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After 20 years, occupation has failed Afghanistan – but our struggle for freedom continues

Commentary [Il Manifesto]. The only way to save Afghanistan is solidarity of the progressive, democratic and secular forces. If we want an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free from fundamentalists and any foreign interventions.
Twenty years after the US launched their invasion and war, the people of my long-suffering country are right back where we started. After trillions of (...)

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Russian Revolution – Beyond Kronstadt. “Learning from accomplishments, mistakes and tragedies”

One must go beyond Kronstadt to understand Kronstadt. One must grasp, first of all, the struggle for human liberation and the hope of Communism.i
From revolutionary Russia in October 1917, John Reed, sent a cable back to his socialist comrades in the United States: “The rank and file of the Workmen's, Soldiers' and Peasants' Councils are in control, with Lenin and Trotsky leading. Their program is to give the land to the peasants, to socialize natural resources and industry and for an (...)

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