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Brazil's Workers Party slams Temer's plan to privatize major bank

"This is a setback for Brazil, that we sell a bank like Caixa, which is the operator of many social programs and infrastructure credit," a Workers Party leader said. The president of the Workers Party of Brazil denounced the government's attempt to privatize one of the largest banks in the country, Caixa Economica Federal. In what would be a first step toward ultimately selling the bank to private interests, the government of Michel Temer seeks to change the status of the bank through an internal decision that would make its privatization legal, according to Senator Gleisi Hoffmann from the Worker's Party, or PT. The workers of Caixa have also announced they will mobilize if the government doesn't assure the bank will remain 100 percent public. " Caixa has been one of the most important assets for the people, for being the main supporter of social policies of the Brazilian government, " Fabiana Uehara from the Financial

Palestine: Hamas, Fatah reach reconciliation agreement

Egyptian authorities praised both groups for their “positive attitude" and prioritizing of Palestine's national interest. Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas have agreed to political reconciliation, according to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. “ Fatah and Hamas reached an agreement at dawn today under generous Egyptian sponsorship, " Haniyeh said in a public statement released on the group's website. Azzam al-Ahmad, head of the Palestinian Authority delegation, said that part of the agreement requires that the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will be administered by presidential guards operating under Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by Nov. 1. " Security measures will be applied and adopted by the Palestinian Authority where the presidential guards will be spread all over the borders, " al-Ahmad said, according to Al-Jazeera. While the full extent of the agreement's details have not been officially reported

Ο Τραμπ ή ο Ομπάμα έβγαλε τις ΗΠΑ από την UNESCO;

Οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες θα αποσυρθούν επισήμως από την Οργάνωση του ΟΗΕ για την Εκπαίδευση, την Επιστήμη και τον Πολιτισμό (UNESCO) στις 31 Δεκεμβρίου ανακοίνωσε το Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ σε μια απόφαση που σύμφωνα με τις πρώτες πληροφορίες σχετίζεται με τις περικοπές δαπανών αλλά και την στήριξη που παρείχε η οργάνωση του ΟΗΕ στην Παλαιστίνη. Η απόφαση προκαλεί ήδη ποικίλα σχόλια αναφορικά με τον σκοταδισμό που εκφράζει ο πρόεδρος των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών. Ελάχιστοι όμως θέλουν να αναφέρουν ότι o πρώτος πρόεδρος που κήρυξε ανοιχτά πόλεμο στην οργάνωση του ΟΗΕ και σε άλλες οργανώσεις των Ηνωμένων Εθνών ήταν ο Μπαράκ Ομπάμα. Τον Οκτώβριο του 2011 ο αγαπημένος πρόεδρος των απανταχού φιλελεύθερων και αυτοαποκαλούμενων κεντροαριστερών είχε ανακοινώσει την πρόθεσή του να διακόψει τη χρηματοδότηση της UNESCO καθώς έκανε δεκτή την αίτηση των Παλαιστινίων να συμμετέχουν σαν πλήρη μέλη. Ο εκπρόσωπος του Λευκού Οίκου είχε χαρακτηρίσει τότε την απόφαση της οργάνωσης «ατυχή»

Britain: How do we make Corbyn's speech a reality?

Part 6 - Immigration and Wages As we have always argued, the best way to defeat the racist rhetoric of the Tories, UKIP and others is with socialist policies. Blame the bosses, not the migrants! Corbyn echoed this by saying: “ We will never follow the Tories into the gutter of blaming migrants for the ills of society. It isn’t migrants who drive down wages and conditions but the worst bosses in collusion with a Conservative government that never misses a chance to attack trade unions and weaken people’s rights at work. ” “ Labour will take action to stop employers driving down pay and conditions not pander to scapegoating or racism. ” This is correct, but a little vague. Labour must begin by, at a bare minimum, repealing all the anti-trade union legislation and strongly backing trade unions to organise and fight for all workers, especially the most vulnerable, including immigrant workers. The unity of the working class is the only guarantee of better wages and c

The hopelessly corrupt structure of the Eurozone & the Eurogroup

by Ramin Mazaheri Part 6 - The first rule of Eurogroup is: ‘You don’t talk about Eurogroup!’ Such facts make it clear why the Eurogroup cannot be considered compatible with democracy, and thus cannot be supported. Full stop. You might support creating a new Eurozone or changes to the Eurozone structure, but supporting the current Eurozone is simply morally indefensible, and you don’t have to be an open communist like me to see that. What will you get if you keep supporting it, like by voting for mainstream politicians or fake “outsiders” like Macron? You will get exactly what has occurred ever since the Eurozone project began in earnest after the fall of the Bretton Woods monetary system/gold standard in 1971 – crisis and austerity across the Eurozone: “ Each one of those heart-rending attempts at monetary union led to the same pattern: a promising beginning that soon degenerated into tears and recriminations as economic warfare erupted and rec