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Pissed-off about tariffs? Try living under a blockade, like Cuba…or Venezuela…or Palestine
peoplesworld.org/article/pisse
Donald Trump might have hoped his tariff war would cause people in Canada to pressure Ottawa to capitulate. If so, his plan—that part of it, anyway—has backfired. Across the country, working people’s anger has galvanized. And why not? The tariffs threaten virtually every worker in all sectors of the economy. In the steel and aluminum […]
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People's World · Pissed-off about tariffs? Try living under a blockade, like Cuba…or Venezuela…or Palestine Donald Trump might have hoped his tariff war would cause people in Canada to pressure Ottawa to capitulate. If so, his plan—that part of it, anyway—has backfired. Across the country, working people’s anger has galvanized.

Connecting women’s oppression, capitalism, and war
peoplesworld.org/article/conne
International Women’s Day, March 8, was the occasion for reports and commentary on women’s oppression ─ its continuation and its softening, here and there. A lot of the oppression stems from women’s traditional place in society as caretaker, a role often referred to as social reproduction. Women, more than men, prepare and sustain people at […]
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People's World · Connecting women’s oppression, capitalism, and warInternational Women’s Day, March 8, was the occasion for reports and commentary on women’s oppression ─ its continuation and its softening, here and there. A lot of the oppression stems from women’s traditional place in society as caretaker, a role often referred to as social reproduction.

We need your help: People’s World faces a $550,000 deficit
peoplesworld.org/article/we-ne
If you’re a regular reader of People’s World, you’ve become accustomed to hearing from us this time of year about the annual fund drive. We fill your email inbox with appeals to donate. We ring you up on the phone to ask for help. We contact you to make sure your credit card hasn’t expired […]
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People's World · We need your help: People’s World faces a $550,000 deficitIf you’re a regular reader of People’s World, you’ve become accustomed to hearing from us this time of year about the annual fund drive. We fill your email inbox with appeals to donate. We ring you up on the phone to ask for help.

Amid Signal ‘war plans’ scandal, no one’s questioning Trump’s illegal bombing of Yemen
peoplesworld.org/article/amid-
The leaked messages among top Trump administration officials about U.S. strikes in Yemen earlier this month, which were held via a private sector messaging app in breach of national security protocol and inadvertently included a journalist, sparked considerable discussion among political commentators and social media users—but as the initial shock regarding the Signal conversation faded, […]
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People's World · Amid Signal ‘war plans’ scandal, no one’s questioning Trump’s illegal bombing of YemenThe leaked messages among top Trump administration officials about U.S. strikes in Yemen earlier this month, which were held via a private sector messaging app in breach of national security protocol and inadvertently included a journalist, sparked considerable discussion among political commentator...

We Condemn the Bombing Attack Against Luis Villanueva Carbajal and Call for International Solidarity
wftucentral.org/we-condemn-the
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), representing more than 105 million workers in 133 countries around the world, expresses its strongest condemnation of the criminal bombing attack carried out in the early hours of March 18 at the home of comrade Luis Villanueva Carbajal, President of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), General Secretary of the Federation of Workers in Civil Construction of Peru (FTCCP), and a member of the Secretariat of the Trade Union International of Workers in the Building, Wood and Building Materials Industries (UITBB). This cowardly and violent act is not an isolated incident—it is part of a broader pattern of escalation by organized crime, which has already taken the lives of 26 union leaders in recent years. It represents a direct assault on democracy, on the right to union organization, and on the safety and dignity of workers who struggle daily for better lives. The WFTU demands from the Peruvian government and authorities urgent and effective action to identify and bring to justice those responsible, and to implement immediate and permanent measures to protect trade union leaders and the working class of Peru. The criminal actions of those who seek to silence the trade union movement through terror must be met with the full force of justice and popular resistance. The WFTU stands firmly and unwaveringly beside the working people of Peru and our militant comrades in CGTP and FTCCP. We reaffirm our commitment to defend labor rights and to fight against all forms of violence, intimidation, and repression against the working class. We call upon all WFTU affiliates and friends across the world to raise their voices in solidarity with the Peruvian working class, to condemn this heinous attack, and to organize acts of international solidarity. Let us send a clear message: Workers are not alone. Security and justice for the workers of Peru! Hands off trade union leaders! An injury to one is an injury to all!  
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India: Massive Morcha by Construction Workers at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi
wftucentral.org/india-massive-
Press Release: – The following statement was issued by Vijayan Kunisserry, General Secretary – All India Confederation of Building and Construction Workers (AICBCW) an affiliate of AITUC. 14 Massive Morcha by Construction Workers at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi The All-India Confederation of Building and Construction Workers affiliated to All India Trade Union Congress held a Parliament Morcha today, i.e. 28th March 2025. Nearly 5000 construction workers from across the country, from 25 states and Union territories, converged in Jantar Mantar to impress upon the government that remains stubbornly unconcerned about the plight of the marginalised workers. Basudeb Gupta, Senior Vice President of AICBCW presided over the Morcha. Vijayan Kuniserry General Secretary (AICBCW) presented the demand charter, M. Praveen Kumar Dy. General Secretary welcomed all into the Morcha. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC Inaugurated the dharna programme. K Subbarayan MP (CPI), Santhosh Kumar MP (CPI, Rajya Sabha) and Vahidha Nizam and Ramkrushna Panda National Secretaries addressed the gathering.   Construction sector provides jobs to more than 10 crore people, including women and children in India. Majority of the workforce languishes in the unorganised sector. Lack of legislative protection makes them the most vulnerable to exploitation of all sorts. None of the existing laws such as the Minimum Wages Act, Equal Remuneration Act, Maternity Benefit, Contract Labour Act etc, provide succour to these workers. They make up the majority of socially oppressed and economically deprived sections of the population.   Supreme Court of India, in a judgment, has expressed its deep concern over the non-implementation of the BOCW Act 1996 and the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996. These laws, enacted by the Parliament have largely been disregarded by the State Governments and Union Territory Administrations.   Even while the existing laws fail to protect the workforce, the labour codes will make it worse. The construction workers consistently struggle for their legal rights. This Parliament Morcha is yet another in the series of serious struggles for livelihood.   K Subbarayan MP met the Minister of Labour and Employment and handed over a memorandum of Charter of demands of AICBCW. The demands include: Repeal the labour codes and strictly implement BOC Act Considering the hazardous nature of the work include all BOC Workers under the ESI Make legal provision for bonus, PF, gratuity and festival allowance for BOC Workers Minimum wages should be enhanced to Rs36000/ per month (calculated as per the guidelines of 15th ILC and Supreme Court judgement in Raptakos and Brett case) Minimum pension must be enhanced to Rs.6000 Provide land and housing for all landless BOC Workers Ensure Occupational safety and health measures through separate law. Enhance the cess amount to 2%, ensure proper collection to augment the fund 9 Establish monitoring committees for proper utilisation of the fund. Ensure payment of maternity benefit as stipulated in the Maternity Benefit Act through the welfare boards.   The Parliament Morcha is successful with regard to wide and strong participation. But the crux of the matter depends on the shift in the policies of the BJP government to address the real livelihood issues of the workers.
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The WFTU, on the occasion of the 30th of March, observed as the Palestinian Land Day
wftucentral.org/the-wftu-on-th
The ongoing bloodshed has been going on and escalating since the 7th of October 2023 with the support and encouragement of the USA, the EU and their allies, has already resulted in tens of thousands of people losing their lives and many more injured. After the flattening of Gaza, Israel continues its atrocities in the West Bank, with daily killings of civilians, imprisonments, bombings and destruction of infrastructure. In the last months, the Israeli aggression also expands and escalates in Lebanon, in Syria and in the wider region of the Middle East, with the open violation of borders and the mass devastating bombing of civilians. The Presidential Council expresses its support and solidarity with the Palestinian people and with the people of the region, in their struggle for sovereignty, liberation, and to repel aggression against their countries. The recent statement of the President of the USA regarding the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, constitutes a continuation of the longstanding and consistent US’s stance and support for the murderous state of Israel and its plans. With his statement, Trump reaffirms in unprecedented cynicism, the USA’s full support of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. The World Federation of Trade Unions strongly denounces and condemns these statements and plans, and reaffirms its unshakeable solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for their right to live in freedom in their own homeland, in the land that they were born. The consistent and principled support and solidarity to the heroic Palestinian people had always been a priority for the international class-oriented trade union movement. It is clear that the only way to secure and consolidate peace and security for the people in Palestine and Israel, but also in the wider Middle East, is to immediately end the Israeli occupation and settlement in the occupied Arab territories, as provided for in the UN resolutions, and to establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and guarantee the right of return of Palestinian refugees. For the WFTU is clear that as the imperialist aggression intensifies, our solidarity must intensify too. The workers from all around the world are in a continues struggle of supporting the Palestinian people! The militant trade unions join their voices with the Palestinian people, condemn the imperialist hypocrisy. The WFTU, on the occasion of the 30th of March, observed as the Palestinian Land Day, calls on its affiliates and friends, class-oriented and militant trade unions internationally to organize mobilizations and demonstrations, both in the streets, but in the workplaces as well, under the slogan: “Free Palestine! Stop the displacement plans! Stop the ethnic cleansing”
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No to European Rearmament, No to WarYes to Resources for Wages, Pensions, Health, Work
wftucentral.org/no-to-european
The decision of the EU Commission to allocate 800 billion Euros for the rearmament of the EU is serious and unacceptable and prepares a future of war for the peoples of Europe. The non-formal break of the historic Atlantic bloc with the USA is accelerating the construction of the European imperialist pole which, in order to compete with the others, has to arm itself, hastily build its own army, equip itself with weapons suitable for a war in the 21st century and centralise decisions on foreign policy and defence. There is no doubt who will be asked to pay the costs of rearmament: the workers, the common people through new taxes, cuts in welfare, wages and social spending. There is no doubt that national governments will also try to further reduce social and civil rights to prevent people from demonstrating, fighting and organising against war and military spending. Eurof, which has always fought against budgetary restrictions and the Stability Pact, because they have been used to cut social spending and have prevented European countries from allocating funds to salaries, pensions, health and education, denounces the decision of the European Commission to authorize the lifting of budgetary restrictions and the breaking of the Stability Pact, solely in favor of increased funding for military spending. While the industrial crisis is devouring factories and destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs, the nature of production is being changed by converting it, especially in the car sector, into arms production, which will further enrich big capital, which is rapidly converting to invest in the military sector. STOP THE ‘RE-ARMING OF EUROPE’ No Sacrifice for War! Peace and Prosperity for the Peoples! With the militant trade unions in the front line for peace, strengthen our solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine We organise initiatives in every country against the armament of war! The warmongering plans of Brussels and the governments of whatever colour can find obstacles to the mass, organised struggle of the peoples  
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#AIConversation: a #conversationwithdeepseek 70b:

Q: what would you say, why did the #Ukraine #conflict escalate and what to do to #deescalate it?
<think>
Okay, so I need to figure out why the Ukraine conflict escalated and how to deescalate it. Hmm, where do I start?

I remember that the conflict has been going on for a while. It started in 2014 with some protests, right? That's when Crimea was annexed by #Russia. But now it's gotten much worse since
February 2022 because Russia invaded Ukraine more aggressively.

Why did it escalate so much this time? Maybe there are deeper reasons. I think it has to do with historical ties between Russia and Ukraine. They were part of the Soviet Union
together, so there's a lot of shared history, but also some tensions, especially over Ukrainian independence.

Another thing is #NATO expansion. After the #ColdWar, NATO started including more Eastern European countries. Russia didn't like that because it felt threatened by military alliances
getting closer to its borders. So when Ukraine considered joining NATO, maybe Russia saw that as a direct threat and decided to act.

There's also the issue of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Since 2014, they've been fighting against the Ukrainian government, and Russia has supported them. That ongoing
conflict probably kept tensions high and made things worse over time.

In terms of deescalating, I'm not sure what can be done. Maybe a ceasefire would help stop the immediate violence. But how do you get both sides to agree? They might need some kind of
mediator or peace talks facilitated by other countries or organizations like the UN.

Economic #sanctions were imposed on Russia because of their actions, but maybe easing those could be an incentive for deescalation. Though I'm not sure if that would work without other
measures in place.

Ukraine's sovereignty is really important here. They should have the right to make their own decisions about alliances and security without interference from bigger powers like Russia
or NATO.

I think a long-term solution needs to address those underlying issues, maybe through #negotiations where both sides can express their concerns. But it's complicated because there are so
many historical and political factors at play. Plus, you have external actors involved, which might make it harder to reach an agreement.

Overall, it seems like the conflict escalated due to a mix of historical tensions, security concerns, and internal Ukrainian politics.

#Deescalating would require careful diplomacy, possibly involving third parties, to find a compromise that respects Ukraine's sovereignty while addressing #Russia's #fear about #NATOexpansion.

</think>

The Ukraine conflict has deepened due to a complex interplay of historical, political, and security factors. To deescalate, a multifaceted approach is necessary:

1. **Immediate Measures**: Implementing a #ceasefire under international mediation can halt the violence. Organizations like the #UN could facilitate this process.

2. **Diplomatic Engagement**: #Peace talks involving Ukraine, Russia, and mediators are crucial. These should address security concerns, including NATO's expansion and regional
stability.

3. **Economic Incentives**: Easing sanctions on Russia might provide an incentive for deescalation, contingent upon reciprocal actions from Russia.

4. **#Sovereignty #Respect**: Upholding Ukraine's right to #selfdetermination and international relations is essential.

5. **Long-term Solutions**: Negotiations should consider historical ties and political tensions, ensuring a balance between Ukraine's autonomy and regional #security dynamics.

In summary, #deescalation requires careful #diplomacy, addressing both immediate concerns and underlying issues through mediated talks and mutual incentives.

#howto #AI #LLM model #deepseek 70GByte in size have a lot of RAM and fast CPU or GPU:

curl -fsSL ollama.com/install.sh | sh
# then
ollama run deepseek-r1:70b

hashtags: #politics #politic #economy #war #worldorder

Reviving U.S. imperialism’s ‘Big Stick,’ Trump tries to beat Latin America into submission
peoplesworld.org/article/reviv
One of the most prominent figures in the early days of 20th century imperialism was U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Under his rule, the United States subjugated the Panama Canal Zone, occupied Cuba, invaded the Dominican Republic, and pursued an almost enless list of other acts of intimidation. The president’s favorite saying, “Speak softly but carry […]
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People's World · Reviving U.S. imperialism’s ‘Big Stick,’ Trump tries to beat Latin America into submissionOne of the most prominent figures in the early days of 20th century imperialism was U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Under his rule, the United States subjugated the Panama Canal Zone, occupied Cuba, invaded the Dominican Republic, and pursued an almost enless list of other acts of intimidation.

El Salvador key to understanding right wing plans here and abroad
peoplesworld.org/article/el-sa
Despite its small size, El Salvador is crucial for understanding the long-term plans of the far right in the Americas. From fomenting violent civil conflict, to stripping away constitutional rights, to the exploitation of natural resources and migrant workers, right-wing extremists have used El Salvador as a laboratory for their global project. At the same […]
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People's World · El Salvador key to understanding right wing plans here and abroadDespite its small size, El Salvador is crucial for understanding the long-term plans of the far right in the Americas. From fomenting violent civil conflict, to stripping away constitutional rights, to the exploitation of natural resources and migrant workers, right-wing extremists have used El Salv...