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Yellow Vest struggle in France must spread to win

Big Yellow Vest protests took place in France again last Saturday, the 15th successive week of action

Sudanese regime is ramping up repression

Al-Bashir is resorting to increasingly brutal methods but the rebellion is not going away

Striking teachers in California join growing revolt over pay and funding

Around 3,300 teachers in Oakland, California, began their fourth day of strikes on Tuesday.

Venezuelan crisis grows amid border showdown

As the right exploits the social crisis, it’s make or break time for left winger Nicolas Maduro, says Alistair Farrow

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to war over Kashmir

India and Pakistan are once more on the brink of terrible conflict.

Crunch time in Venezuela

The right wing coup attempt in Venezuela was set to reach a key turning point this week.

Democrats won’t stop Trump’s wall

Racist US president Donald Trump announced a “state of emergency” on Friday of last week in order to get funding to build his anti-migrant border wall.

Rage at rule of the rich and the corrupt hits Haiti

Huge protests and a general strike in outrage at corruption have gripped Haiti.

Yellow Vests take to streets despite cop violence and trials

The French government and the police are saying the Yellow Vest movement is all but finished.

Workers across Europe strike back against austerity

The economic and social policies pushed by the European Union (EU) are often described as a haven from inequality and crisis.

Spanish elections will highlight Catalan struggle and continuing austerity

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez of the Labour-type PSOE party has dissolved parliament and called elections for 28 April.

More migrant deaths likely at US southern border after Democrats grant Trump funding

The Democratic Party handed US president Donald Trump a partial victory over funding for his border wall plan

International round up: Huge march for nurses in Ireland

Huge march for nurses in Ireland

Armed cops blow Yellow Vest’s hand off in Paris

Tens of thousands of Yellow Vests demonstrated in France for the thirteenth weekend in a row last Saturday—despite new laws passed last week to curtail protests.

Full-scale revolt at rule of Sudanese president

Thousands of Sudanese people took to the streets on Thursday of last week in the capital Khartoum.

Israel erects new racist border wall around Gaza

Israel has begun building a new giant fence around the Gaza Strip to make escape for Palestinians even more difficult.

Hi-vis unity in France as strikers join with Yellow Vests

Strikes and protests swept France on Tuesday as the Yellow Vest movement and trade unionists came together for the first time in significant numbers.

Nurses in Ireland stage pay strikes

More than 35,000 striking nurses have picketed hospitals across Ireland, telling the government they can take no more.

West threatens force to get its way in Venezuela

Western governments are organising to force out Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Their manoeuvres show up the sham that is democracy under capitalism.

Strikes in France this week could deepen Yellow Vests movement against Macron

It is a crucial week for the Yellow Vest protests in France. Big mobilisations on Saturday showed the potential for an even more powerful movement to defeat neoliberal French president Emmanuel Macron.