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Brazil: Towards the General Sanitary Strike and Out with Bolsonaro and Mourão, now!

14 June 2021: Correspondence from Brazil: In Brazil, the people will take to the streets on 19 June. We are approaching the mark of half a million dead by Covid-19 in Brazil. It is a humanitarian catastrophe, led by a government that acts in a way that exposes the population even more to the virus and the expansion of contagion. Last May 29, the so-called "29M - National Day of Struggles and Mobilizations for Out Bolsonaro" was a very important date for the political conjuncture in Brazil.

ICOG Information Letter

Millions around the world took to the streets again this year on May Day, the International Day of Struggle of the Working Class, for their legitimate demands - despite restricted conditions in the Corona pandemic! The call and poster of International Coordinating Group (ICOG) "Fight for Health Protection, Jobs and Democratic Rights!" was the result of our successful online ICOG meeting at the end of March 2021 and was distributed in 5 languages.

Philippines: URGENT ACTION: CONDEMN THE KILLING OF LABOR LEADER DANDY MIGUEL!

29 March 2021 KMU International: Labor leader Dandy Miguel was shot dead in Laguna province last Sunday night 28 March. According to initial reports, he was shot eight times while on his way home from work. Miguel’s killing came three weeks after nine activists were killed in simultaneous dawn operations called Bloody Sunday in the Southern Tagalog region south of Manila, where Laguna is located.

Philippines MWAP: Justice for Dandy! #StopTheKillings

29 March 2021 The Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines vehemently condemns the brutal killing of Dandy Miguel, President of the Lakas ng Nagkakaisang Manggagawa ng Fuji Electric Philippines (LNMFEP), an affiliate of MWAP, and Vice President of PAMANTIK-KMU.

Experiences of former car workers in Australia

Documented from "Vanguard" CPA ML Australia: International Automotive Workers Coordination: Auto workers struggles across the world We are pleased to publish the International Information Letter of the International Automotive Workers Coordination (International Newsletter of GM-Stellantis Coordination), which documents the continuous struggles and solidarity actions of Auto workers across the world. A former car industry comrade has provided a short introduction on the demise of the auto industry here in Australia.

ICOG resolution against military coup in Myanmar

On 1st February of 2021, the Myanmar Army (formerly Burma) took power once again after exercising it from 1962 to 2011. This coup led to the arrest of the country’s main power figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, and the president of the Republic, Win Myint. Student leaders, ethnic leaders and other deputies from the National Democratic League (LND) were arrested as well. In response, a strong civil disobedience took place all over the country. The garment workers in Myanmar – about 700,000, from the shoe and tennis industries for export, stopped their activities to participate in the demonstrations. The same happened with civil servants, particularly teachers, doctors and nurses that made strong general strikes during this movement against military junta.

Full solidarity and support for the struggle against the new working time model at Stellantis

At the Chrysler Stellantis plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan (USA), a new working time model is to be introduced up from April 5. It means for the workers a horror working time of 12 hours a day and seven days a week, explicitly as a test for all Stellantis plants worldwide. The International Automotive Workers' Coordination supports all struggles against this excessive increase in flexibility and declares its full solidarity with the workers at Stellantis who oppose such working hours.

International Information Letter GM-Stellantis No. 20 - March 2021

Dear Colleagues, The merger of PSA and Fiat is now official. The newly formed Stellantis mega-group includes 14 brands, over 100 production plants in more than 30 countries and over 400,000 employees. Group CEO Tavares said the merger creates a "shield for jobs" and there will be no plant closures as part of the merger. He said similar things when PSA merged with Opel. Since then, thousands of jobs have been destroyed at Opel. The announcement that the merger is expected to result in an annual "synergy effect" of five billion dollars leaves no doubt that further attacks on jobs, wages and working conditions are to be expected. A Stellantis statement said it was "fully focused on realizing the promised synergies."

'Anti-fascist front and fight for socialism'

The Rode Morgen interviews Frank Hammer on recent developments in the United States. Frank worked at General Motors in Detroit and was a delegate at the International Automotive Workers Conference in South Africa in February 2020.

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