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Macron Signs Unpopular Pension Reform Into Law After Court Approval
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed his pension reform into law, despite despite months of street protests and strikes. The legislation proposes to...
Popular Pushback Against Pension Proposal rocks France
Paris: Since 19 January 2023, France has seen a general strike and accompanying demonstrations, in protest of the government's proposed pension reforms. The reforms...
Paris Commune: Remembering the First Worker’s Revolution
On March 18, 1871, the workers of Paris rose against the rulers of France and established the first worker-run society in Europe after the...
NATO at Russia’s doorstep: The Ukraine conflict
From March 2021, thousands of Russian troops aligned themselves along the Russian border with Ukraine. Since then, Ukraine has become the epicentre of an...
Protests in Italy, France Against Mandatory Health Pass
While the world is battling waves of COVID-19 pandemic, the vaccination hesitancy among people is becoming a critical issue as many have doubts over...
Total, a French Oil Giant Moves Ahead With its Catastrophic EACOP...
French President Emmanuel Macron can't stop talking about his desire to include climate change goals in the country's constitution while simultaneously supporting French Oil...
James Baldwin´s writings show a mirror to the racially fractured America
August 2 marked the birth anniversary of James Baldwin, one of the most important and radical voices in American literature, who in his works,...
231 Years Ago: A Prison Stormed, A Monarchy Toppled in Bastille
On this day in 1789, around a thousand revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in Paris. This was seen as one of the most iconic...
How Black Gold Lobby fights Haiti, the World’s first Black Republic
In 2019, large-scale protests in Haiti calling for the resignation of President Moise have grown. As in other parts of the world, the people’s...
Why people all over the world are protesting?
Since the beginning of 2019, a series of protests across the globe have erupted mainly driven by neo-liberal economic policies. These protests are direct...
