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, par SELLAYE Marcel
For the past month, the popular movement against the high cost of living in Martinique has been gathering momentum. Marcel Sellaye, an activist in the GRS (Groupe révolution socialiste) and a former leader of the Respé (Résistance ESPoir, Émancipation) list, explains the reasons for the anger (…)
, by MHIDI Patrice
Like Guyane [French Guiana], which we will not deal with here, these two French colonial territories in the Americas are causing concern in the so-called “national” media.
Repeated crises and system crisis
The turbulence affecting them follows an increasingly frequent rhythm. This reflects (…)
, by LAFORGE François
GENERAL STRIKES in two French colonies in the Caribbean have won sweeping victories—and emboldened workers in France and beyond.
On March 4, a 44-day general strike in Guadeloupe ended with an agreement granting 20 immediate demands of workers and making significant progress on dozens more (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
Martinique general strike ends in victory
A 38-day general strike in the Caribbean colony of Martinique ended March 14 with the signing of a protocol between the government and the February 5 Collective, a coalition of unions and other social movements named after the day the strike began. The (…)
, by PAGO Gilbert
In Martinique, the general strike launched on February 5 by the Intersyndical (inter-union coordination) immediately took on, by its scale and its ongoing dynamic, just as in Guadeloupe, a political dimension of challenging the injustice, the exploitation and the oppression that exist in (…)
, par FIDLER Richard
The general strike in Guadeloupe ended March 4, when an Accord was signed between the LKP Strike Collective and the local governments, the employers’ federation and the French government that granted the strikers their top 20 immediate demands and provided for continued negotiations on the (…)
, by MBMB Team, No One Is Illegal
Appel du “MBMB Team”
After 5 weeks of protest against the French government colonial ruling & the tragic death of an activist, President Sarkozy finally addressed the nation about the social movement in the French Caribbean. Soon after, negotiations started. However Mr. Sarkozi and its (…)
, by JEMMOTT Rawlings F. A., NWU (Trinidad & Tobago), SAC (Trinidad and Tobago), SMITH Dave
Dear Comrades,
The National Workers’ Union (NWU) is saddened for the Loss of a Comrade Trade Unionist in Guadeloupe. We are also saddened to see that the crisis is not given the attention it requires by the leadership of France. The global crisis is imminent because Capitalism, Imperialism and (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
February 26, 2009 — Life on the Left — The general strike in two French colonies in the Caribbean is firm, with no end in sight. It began in Guadeloupe on January 20 and spread to neighbouring Martinique on February 5 as a protest against the high cost of living and, more generally, the gross (…)
, by DTU, NICHOLAS Leo Jules Bernard
Préfet de Guadeloupe Rue Landenoy 97-100 Basse Terre Fax: Int. 00-335-90-81-58-32
M. Yves Jego Secrétaire d´Etat Chargé De l’Outre-Mer 27, Rue Oudinot 75007 Paris Fax: Int. 00-331-53-69-28-04
Dear Sir
The Dominica Trade Union (DTU) is very concerned about the long impasse which (…)
, by IFC
“IFC condemn all sorts of repressions”
To the French Government,
We have recently learned from Lyannaj kont Pwofitasyon that the workers of Guadeloupe have been practicing their basic human rights by protesting their current terrible living conditions and as a result the local authorities (…)
, by FASFALIS Dimitris
February 24, 2009 — For more than a month now, Guadeloupe has been providing a tremendous lesson in social resistance to the local bosses and the French government. Its people have responded to the growing insecurity with an historically unprecedented general strike. What is behind this (…)
, by CNSP
Paris, February 23, 2009 — Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, Réunion and soon Kanaky — the colonies that extend the surface of France from 550,000 km2 to 10,26,000 km2 — are engaged in an extended general strike to get the rich colons (Békés) and the monopolies of metropolitan finance capital to (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
“Letter of support from Leningrad”
Free trade union of tramway drivers of Saint-Petersburg - Leningrad (Russia) and simple people of our city have fully supporting the general strike of LKP in Gwadloup and demand from the French government : End repression NOW ! Release all the jailed people (…)
, by Libcom.org
The leader of the general strike crippling Guadeloupe has accused the French government of preparing to kill protestors to bring an end to the stoppage on the French Caribbean island.
“Today, given the number of gendarmes who have arrived in Guadeloupe armed to the teeth, the French state has (…)
, by NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste
The statement below was released on February 16 by the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) in France and distributed as a leaflet nation-wide, in solidarity with the workers of Guadeloupe and Martinique.
The translation is by .
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The general strike in Guadeloupe (…)
, by GODARD Georges, NWU (Saint Lucia)
Dear Comrade Fabert,
The National Workers’ Union of Saint Lucia is in full support of and solidarity with the actions taken by the working people of Guadeloupe and Martinique under the leadership of your working class organisations.
In times of crisis in the international capitalist system (…)
, by UGTG
Excerpts from a resolution adopted by the Union Générale des Travailleurs de Guadeloupe at its 12th Congress, April 2-5, 2008. Full text in French and Creole at or on ESSF: Existe t’il un peuple Gwadloupéyen ?
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Does a Guadeloupian People Exist?
To this (…)
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