- Massive Nationwide Protests in Israel Defy Netanyahu
- Cuban Youth Weigh In
- Striking Flight Attendants Win in Canada
- Bolivia: The Downfall of MAS
- Ivory Coast Protests for Fair Elections
- Drawing Class Lines in Venezuela
- Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré
- UK Labor Movement Wants Action on a Murderous Climate
- Tunisian Electrical Unions Win
- Hiroshima Voices
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Massive Nationwide Protests in Israel Defy Netanyahu
Amy Goodman and Oren Ziv / Democracy Now! (New York)
Massive protests have erupted in Israel, with about 500,000 people marching in Tel Aviv Sunday to demand an end to the war in Gaza. Organizers say 1 million took part in demonstrations across the entire country. Most of the Israelis who were out on the streets “blame Netanyahu” for prioritizing his political survival over an end to the war.
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Cuban Youth Weigh In
Rafael Hernández / On Cuba News (Miami)
A revolutionary process cannot be content with itself, nor can it accept forms of oppression, bureaucracy, corruption, according to Fidel Castro himself. It must optimize the timeframe for change so that people feel their living conditions are improving, rather than a future so distant that it never arrives, and where they stop feeling like victims and become active social subjects.
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Striking Flight Attendants Win in Canada
• What They Won Pete Syme / Business Insider (New York).
• How Ottawa Lost Barry Eidlin / The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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Bolivia: The Downfall of MAS
Pablo Stefanoni / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)
Bolivians voted on 17th August. In the presidential election, the left was eliminated in the first round. The once powerful Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Bolivia’s main left-wing party founded by Evo Morales, faced the electoral process divided into three factions. A question mark opens about the political stability of the future rightist government.
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Ivory Coast Protests for Fair Elections
Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
President Alassane Ouattara is attempting to grab office for a fourth term by barring both main contestants from running for the upcoming election in October. Tens of thousands took to the streets in the capital, Abidjan, on Saturday, August 9, demanding that his opponents, Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, be allowed to contest.
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Drawing Class Lines in Venezuela
Salvador De León and Federico Fuentes / Links (Sydney)
A member of the Comité Autónomo e Independiente de Trabajadores(as) (Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee, CAIT) looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective.
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Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré
• Visionary...? Muhammad Hassan-Tom / 21st Century Chronicle (Abuja)
• ...Or Despot? Rahmane Idrissa / Amandla! (Cape Town)
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UK Labor Movement Wants Action on a Murderous Climate
Rory O’Neill / Hazards Magazine (Sheffield, UK)
As the UK sat sandwiched between deadly ‘heat domes’ in the US and mainland Europe, the TUC honed its final preparations for a 14-21 July 2025 trade union week of action on workplace heat hazards. As a third heatwave of the summer left workers sweltering, more than 1,000 trade union health and safety reps signed up to take part in workplace heat inspections.
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Tunisian Electrical Unions Win
Elyes Ben Ammar and Lala Peñaranda / Socialist Project (Toronto)
The combination of clear union demands, sustained union pressure, and a strike announcement were successful in leading to a negotiation session between the unions (UGTT and FGEG), the government and key ministries, and the state-owned Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company. The unions critiqued government measures and legislation that threaten the right to (public) electricity.
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Hiroshima Voices
Masako Toki / The Converstion (Waltham MA)
Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. Those who survived – known as Hibakusha – have carried their suffering as living testimony to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear war, with one key wish: that no one else will suffer as they have.
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