In vielen LĂ€ndern Europas sind erneut Menschen auf die StraĂe gegangen – zum Teil mit Ă€hnlichem Anliegen. Oft geht es den Veranstaltern dabei unter anderem um steigende Lebenshaltungskosten, um hohe Mietkosten, um Korruption. In vielen Orten schlug der Protest dabei allerdings in Gewalt um.
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54 milliards euros dâĂ©conomies, 54 milliards de raisons dâĂȘtre en grĂšve et dans la rue le 5 novembre !
La FEC FO appelle lâensemble des syndicats Ă se mobiliser massivement aux cĂŽtĂ©s de la jeunesse pour dĂ©fendre les libertĂ©s civiques et syndicales.
La situation actuelle des jeunes, salariés, retraités, précaires exige dÚs maintenant de réunir toutes les forces, en grÚve, pour obtenir satisfaction !
– Augmentation des salaires et des pensions.
– Baisse drastique des prix du gaz, de lâĂ©lectricitĂ©, des carburants.
– Baisse de la TVA sur les produits de premiĂšre nĂ©cessitĂ©.
– ArrĂȘt des exonĂ©rations des cotisations sociales.
– ArrĂȘt des plans de suppression dâemplois.
– Rejet des projets de budgets 2027 de lâĂtat et de la SĂ©curitĂ© sociale (prĂ©vision de 54 Mds⏠dâĂ©conomies faites sur le dos des salariĂ©s, retraitĂ©s et prĂ©caires).
– Investissements massifs dans nos services publics : Ă©coles, hĂŽpitaux, SĂ©curitĂ© sociale, sĂ©curitĂ© civile, assurance chĂŽmage⊠par ailleurs crĂ©ateurs dâemplois.
– ArrĂȘt de la sous indexation et du gel des pensions de retraite, maintien de lâabattement de 10 % pour les retraitĂ©s.
– Retrait dĂ©finitif de la derniĂšre rĂ©forme des retraites, et la prĂ©servation du systĂšme de retraite par rĂ©partition.
Toutes et tous en grĂšve et dans la rue le 5 novembre 2026 !
Gewerkschaft: Generalstreik in Frankreich am 5. November
(October 21, 2026)
Frankreichs Gewerkschaftsbund CGT hat im Zuge der aktuellen Sozialproteste zu einem Generalstreik am 5. November aufgerufen. Bei einem „erfolglosen Treffen“ am Mittwoch sei Premier SĂ©bastien Lecornu auf die Forderungen der Gewerkschaften und der Demonstranten vom Wochenende in keiner Weise eingegangen, hieĂ es. Jetzt sei die Zeit fĂŒr Streiks gekommen. Das Land befinde sich in einer Krise, die soziale Lage habe sich fĂŒr eine Mehrheit der Bevölkerung klar verschlechtert.
La CGT appelle à généraliser la grÚve le 5 novembre
(October 21, 2026)
La CGT appelle Ă des assemblĂ©es gĂ©nĂ©rales partout sur les lieux de travail pour dĂ©cider de la gĂ©nĂ©ralisation de la grĂšve le 5 novembre, date de la journĂ©e de grĂšve et de manifestations dĂ©cidĂ©e par l‘intersyndicale interprofessionnelle.
C‘est par la grĂšve massive que nous mettrons le patronat et le gouvernement sous pression et que nous gagnerons sur nos revendications et celles de la jeunesse. C‘est par la grĂšve que nous obtiendrons les augmentations de salaires et pensions indispensables pour vivre dans de bonnes conditions. C‘est par la grĂšve que nous gagnerons les budgets pour nos services publics et les financements pour notre SĂ©curitĂ© sociale.
Mobilisation de la jeunesse, retour des gilets jaunes, appel de l‘intersyndicale… On vous rĂ©sume les revendications et la rĂ©ponse du gouvernement
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L‘exĂ©cutif est confrontĂ© Ă une colĂšre sociale puissante mais aussi plurielle, avec des revendications portĂ©es par diffĂ©rents mouvements. Franceinfo fait le point sur les demandes des uns et des autres et les rĂ©ponses apportĂ©es jusqu‘Ă prĂ©sent.
Angela Gonzales-Torres for U.S. Congress: Our Home. Our Future. Our Los Angeles.
Angela Gonzales-Torres is a lifelong Angeleno, the daughter of a deportee, and an equity and justice advocate. Her path from community organizer to congressional candidate reflects a strong commitment to uplifting immigrant and working families like her own.
Protesttag in Frankreich: geplant:Warum die Franzosen die „Schnauze voll“ haben
Hohe Lebenshaltungskosten, geringe GehÀlter, MissstÀnde an Schulen: In Frankreich haben landesweit Massenproteste begonnen. Zehntausende Demonstranten werden erwartet.
Rente nach 45 Jahren Arbeit endet: Diese JahrgÀnge sollten gut aufpassen
Nach § 38 SGB VI haben Versicherte Anspruch auf die Altersrente fĂŒr besonders langjĂ€hrig Versicherte, wenn sie das 65. Lebensjahr vollendet und eine Wartezeit von 45 Jahren erreicht haben. FĂŒr Ă€ltere GeburtsjahrgĂ€nge gelten ĂŒbergangsweise niedrigere Altersgrenzen.
Der Jahrgang 1962 kann diese Rente nach geltendem Recht mit 64 Jahren und acht Monaten erhalten. Beim Jahrgang 1963 sind es 64 Jahre und zehn Monate, wÀhrend ab dem Jahrgang 1964 das Alter von 65 Jahren gilt.
Die oft verwendete Bezeichnung âRente mit 63â fĂŒhrt deshalb inzwischen in die Irre. TatsĂ€chlich konnten nur deutlich Ă€ltere JahrgĂ€nge diese Rentenart bereits mit genau 63 Jahren abschlagsfrei beziehen.
Hold Your Nose And Vote
DeSantis is telling Republicans who are frustrated with their partyâs candidates to vote for them anyway lest the DSA take the country âback to before the time of the American Revolution.â
Referring to GOP candidates as less-than-perfect, the governor insisted that the alternative is worse. State Rep. Angie Nixon, a DSA member, secured a major upset victory in August to become the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in November.
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Fox News writer Amanda Macias announced that Democratic Socialists of America are âseeking to reshape some of the most basic features of the U.S. economy.â She then proceeded to lay out DSAâs core platform: universal healthcare, free public universities, student debt cancellation, a 32-hour workweek, and collecting higher taxes from the wealthy.
Maciasâs framing of the benefits of socialism reads like the wish list of anyone who is horrified by rising healthcare costs while buried in student debt and working insane hours to keep their head above water. In the end, she asked the same tired question posed by so many critics: whoâs going to pay for it all?
A new fleet of F-35s never draws that question.
DSA Statement on the New State Department Report on Cuba
(August 10, 2026)
We are being depicted as fanatics for building a world where people live in peace, safe from bombs; where no child goes hungry; where no family has to worry that their lives will be ripped apart by ICE; and where no one has to suffer from lack of housing or healthcare. They depict us as such because they are afraid that our ideas are not fringe demands. These are the demands that millions of Americans have already committed to fighting for at the ballot box and in the streets.
Despite Rubioâs attempt to smear us, his report admits that DSA does not organize on behalf of the Cuban Government, only of its own accord.
The Left Notches Another Win With This Secret Weapon: Old-Fashioned Organizing
(August 19, 2026)
The group of volunteers for her underdog Senate campaign sat inside a union office in suburban Broward County, a liberal stronghold in the increasingly Republican-leaning state. It was a small group, maybe a dozen people.
But donât worry, Ms. Nixonâs political director, Rachel Gilmer, reassured them: âThis tiny room is part of many, many tiny roomsâ across the state, she said, with more volunteers also ready to knock on Democratic votersâ doors.
âThe Fight Has Just Begunâ: Angie Nixon Delivers Shocking Upset Win in Florida
In a surprise upset described variously as âstunningâ and âa shockerâ in headlines, State Rep. Angie Nixon won the Democratic primary for the open US Senate seat in Florida on Tuesday, defeating Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, the former national security official who many presumed would sail to victory with the support of the party establishment and a massive cash advantage.
Nixon, a former union organizer and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, will now face Sen. Ashley Moody, whom Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to the seat after former Sen. Marco Rubio became Secretary of State, in the general election.
Angie For Florida
What Led To This Moment
Angie Nixon is a Florida State Representative, union organizer, and mother born and raised in Jacksonville who has spent her career fighting for hardworking Floridians. In the State House, she expanded childcare, took on corporate price-gouging, and led the fight against DeSantisâs unfair voting maps. Her leadership is rooted in lived experienceâwatching her mom work two jobs to get by, attending public schools, and losing her cousin to gun violence. Angie is running to lower costs, raise wages, and build a people-powered government that puts families firstânot greedy billionaires.
FULL: Angie Nixon gives victory speech after winning Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate
Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon, from Jacksonville‘s Moncrief neighborhood, beat former Trump Administraton whistleblower Alex Vindman in a stunning upset.
JD Vance: You stop socialism by improving peopleâs lives, not using slogans
Vice President JD Vance discusses how the GOP can combat socialist support on âThe Will Cain Show.
Reopening Strait of Hormuz is a humanitarian imperative
It is worth recalling that the conflict did not begin over disputes about the Strait of Hormuz. As recently as February 28, commercial ships transited the waterway without restriction.
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With the US maintaining the naval blockade during the ceasefire period, Iran responded by stopping and, in several cases, attacking vessels attempting to cross the Strait without its approval. Insurance rates spiked, shipping lines rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope, and transit times increased by up to three weeks.
Wars of this nature benefit no party in the long term, and they rarely reach a logical conclusion. Their primary victims are innocent civilians who have no role in the conflict. Many civilians in Iran and Lebanon have lost their lives directly to strikes.
Iranian attack kills worker at Chinese company building in Kuwait
An Iranian attack targeted a building belonging to a Chinese company in northern Kuwait, killing one worker, the Kuwaiti army said Thursday.
Defense Ministry spokesman Saud Al-Atwan said the âIranian aggressionâ struck the building, causing extensive material damage
The union man who unleashed a political earthquake in California
(March 25, 2026)
When Gavin Newsom stood before a room of economic elites in New York last December and derided a âsingle labor leaderâ pushing a tax on California billionaires, he never said his name. He didnât need to.
Everyone in California politics knows of Dave Regan, the legendarily combative health care union chief who has spent decades wielding Californiaâs ballot initiative system against the health care industry.
But his newest mission is on a scale orders of magnitude larger.
California billionaire tax headed for ballot despite top Democratsâ opposition
The push to put a billionaire tax to a popular vote in blue California has exposed deep divides on the left, even as Democratic politicians across the country rally around calls for the wealthy to pay more. The issue is pitting the populist mood of the public against many Democratsâ fears that the measure will push the ultrawealthy to join a broader exodus from the state and take their tax dollars with them.
Gavin Newsom fails to stop Californiaâs controversial billionaire tax from going to voters
(June 25, 2026)
SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West President Dave Regan refused to back down on the billionaire tax.
Gavin Newsom moves to neutralize tax on billionaires
(January 12, 2026)
The conversations, reported here for the first time, have occurred intermittently for months as SEIU-UHWâs ballot initiative targeting billionaires migrated from the backrooms of California politics to the center of a raging debate about Silicon Valley and income inequality, sparking tech titansâ wrath and vows to move out of state.
âWeâve been at this for four months,â Newsom said in an interview with POLITICO, describing an âall-handsâ effort that has included him meeting one-on-one with SEIU-UHWâs leader, Dave Regan.
A compromise does not appear imminent. A union official cast doubt on the possibility of a deal, saying the two sides do not currently have another meeting scheduled and framing a ballot fight as an inevitability.
California Billionaire Tax Act
Our solution: The California Billionaire Tax Act
Weâre calling on Californiaâs billionaires to step up and pay a one-time, emergency 5% tax to prevent the collapse of California healthcare and help fund California public K-14 education and state food assistance programs. This would protect healthcare jobs and ensure working people and families can get the care they need. The tax would be paid only by Californians worth more than $1 billion â which is about 200 people who hold a combined wealth of $2 trillion.
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One Killed, Two Wounded by Israeli Gunfire in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa
NNA – A young man was killed and two others were wounded after Israeli soldiers opened machine-gun fire on a group of people near a bulldozer carrying out road-clearing works in the Al-Deir neighborhood of Nabatieh Al-Fawqa.
The casualties were transported to the Lebanese Popular Relief Hospital for treatment. The incident occurred as road-opening operations were underway in the area.
James Talarico for Texas: Itâs time to Start Flipping Tables.
James is an eighth-generation Texan, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian. As a state representative, heâs led the fight against the billionaire mega-donors and puppet politicians who have taken over Texas.
Now, heâs running for U.S. Senate to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.
Israel uproots thousands of grapevines in Hebron to expand settler road
Zuhur Tarwa stood in shock as Israeli army markers appeared across her vineyard, declaring it confiscated.
The 68-year-old Palestinian had spent years tending the land with her two daughters in the fertile Baqaâa Valley, east of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Their 200 grapevines once filled the plot with broad green leaves, promising a strong harvest.
Before that could happen, the confiscation order arrived – followed soon after by bulldozers.
âThey razed the entire land, uprooting the grapevines and other crops,â Tarwa told Middle East Eye.
Oman‘s state news agency says 2 workers wounded in attack on building near Strait of Hormuz coast
The report did not specify what type of weapon had struck the building, but it came as the neighboring UAE reported air defenses were working to intercept Iranian missile and drone attacks.
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The incident occurred in the Tebat area of Bukha Governorate, which is in an Omani enclave hemmed in by the Strait of Hormuz to the north and UAE territory to the south.
‚Killing like we haven‘t since 1967‘: Top Israeli general brags about shooting Palestinians in occupied West Bank
âA plasterer in [the West Bank city of] Ramallah earns 1,500 shekels ($510) a month and a plasterer in [the Israeli town of] Ramle earns 7,000 shekels a month, so of course he‘s willing to risk being shot in the knee or a week of detention, if he succeeded in crossing over and can work in a bakery,â Bluth explained.
âThere are a lot of âlimping monumentsâ in Palestinian villages, of those who tried to [cross the barrier], so there is a price being paid,â he boasted.
The Israeli general also said Palestinians throwing rocks were engaged in âterrorism,â while bragging about how many his troops had killed last year.
AP PHOTOS: Across the globe, workers observe May Day
The holiday, also known as International Workersâ Day or Labor Day, marks the struggles and achievements of workers and the labor movement around the world. Thousands of people are expected to attend rallies and demonstrations calling for stronger protections for workers, higher wages, greater equality and more.
Join Our Movement – For A Better California
Tony knows that working families across California are facing so many challenges that require our entire state government, working together, to solve.
Growing up in poverty as a Black and Latino kid without his parents, Tony lived the struggles that so many Californians face every day – that‘s why he dedicated his career to fighting for a brighter future for California‘s children.
California gubernatorial candidate Tony Thurmond endorses California Billionaire Tax
(February 20, 2026)
Thurmond, a longtime champion of programs to counter food insecurity, sponsored a state law that currently funds universal school meals for every California student. Today, Thurmond praised the Billionaire Tax for helping children and families when they need it most, by funding food, supporting K-14 public education, and protecting healthcare for all Californians.
âBillionaires have a unique opportunity to save healthcare for Californians, feed hungry families, and reinvest in our public schools,â Thurmond said. âGrowing up in poverty, having access to healthcare and food aid kept me and my brother alive, and public education offered us a ladder to the middle class. At a time of unprecedented wealth and income inequality, now is the time to strengthen that ladder for the next generation, not pull it up behind us.â