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"Marx explained that social thinking changes under the impact of an objective crisis. And that's why many of you are in the room today." - from David North's lecture at Wayne State University on October 20.
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Punjab bus workers launch an indefinite strike, Bangladesh garment workers defy police attacks for a living wage, and Victorian allied health workers step up their bans.
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Break the movement free of the unions and every capitalist party, unite across Europe, and fight for the United Socialist States of Europe.
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In France, students and “yellow vests” called more than 120 protests for October 24. The government banned some and mobilized over 70,000 police and soldiers.
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Most of the strikes are called by the official unions, which back their governments’ war and austerity. They lead the movement to keep it under control.
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What drives it: no future for the young, rising rents and prices, and hundreds of billions for war while pensions, health care and schools are cut.
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France, Serbia, Albania, Spain, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Portugal and Ireland have seen mass protests, most begun by students. In Vienna, around 40,000 marched on Thursday against a 10 percent cut to the universities.
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Strikes called for the weeks ahead: Italy on October 30 and November 20–21, France on November 5, Greece on November 20, Belgium on November 26, and transport and rail strikes in Spain and Portugal.
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“A fundamental class conflict is developing, one that directly raises the question of power.”
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Europe’s student protests and the intervention of the working class. A thread:
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World Socialist Web Site retweeted
Protests erupt in Prague: Demonstrators attempt to break into parliament building
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The union-Labor sellout of Victoria’s public hospital doctors shut down their fight over intolerable conditions and delivered further real wage cuts.
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