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The tug-of-war over labour rights in Chile

Just days before celebrating another May 1st, a date of special significance as we remember the historic struggle for the demands of workers around the world; the project, proposed in 2017, “40 hours”, a legal initiative that sought to modify…

Genetically modified bread is already on Argentinean tables

Argentina is the first country in the world to eat genetically modified bread. The company Bioceres-Indear reported that GM wheat is already being mixed with conventional wheat in 25 mills. With no labelling of genetically modified foods, it is already…

“Mir Zainen Do!” Chileans make the message of the Warsaw ghetto uprising their own

On 19 April 1943, German and some Polish battalions entered the 3.4 square kilometre fenced perimeter inside the city of Warsaw, where, since November 1940, Jews had been interned, as their ancestors were in medieval times, in a ghetto. Since…

Sighted people are necessary for blind people

In the public talk given by Silo on May 4, 1969, in minute 5:00 he said: “There is another kind of suffering that does not depend on the illness of your body, but derives from it, if you are handicapped,…

Julian Assange four years into his imprisonment

This week marks the fourth year of the criminal imprisonment of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen kidnapped and convicted by the US for daring to disrupt the most powerful and bloodiest mafia group in history, known worldwide as “Western civilisation”.…

Finance’s role in the disappearance of an indigenous people in Paraguay

In 2022, an isolated indigenous group disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon. With the death of one man, the last member of an isolated tribe, an entire culture can disappear. But this disappearance did not happen on the spur of the…

Julian Assange, the elephant in the room at this year’s Journalism Festival in Perugia

The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone working in the media. They will also be handing out a flyer on the new Melzer book. By…

Macron makes no concessions

The French president admitted to “social anger” but argues that pension reform was essential. French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a pension reform that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 and extends the time of work needed…

Myanmar buys arms from Russia with oil proceeds

(DIRE) “In Myanmar, the situation is tragic. The junta that has overthrown the elected government is using any means to intimidate and even kill because it knows that if it loses the war, [the empire] will crumble, an empire of…

Deaths in the Mediterranean are political intent – the German government must finally act

“The number of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea is reaching levels not seen in years: from January to March of this year alone, 441 people drowned while fleeing to Europe. And these are only the confirmed cases, many more people…

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