Workers of the world
In an increasingly interconnected world, the struggles of working people don’t stop at national borders. Supply chains and capital flows certainly do not. Why should solidarity?
Our reporting on the international dimensions of working people’s fight for a better world is supported by Bertha Foundation.
India ignites in anti-rape protests after doctor’s murder. Are authorities covering up the truth?
Protests across the nation have flared after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkota this August. Activists say that police are continuing to cover up the truth despite a recent arrest.
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‘I found [my family] in pieces. In pieces.’: Gaza’s orphans speak
Israel’s genocide has killed the parents or caretakers of at least 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, who must now find a way to survive the war without them.
Under Israeli bombardment, Lebanon’s refugees turn to each other for survival
With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who’ve lost everything.
Special report: Workers and the European crisis
Spain’s unions wage nationwide general strike for Palestine
Students, NGOs, and workers from over 200 unions across Spain waged a nationwide general strike to demand the Spanish government cut ties with Israel and end all forms of military aid.
‘They will kill me’: The story of Waleed, a young man from the West Bank
Waleed Samer assisted The Real News with filming in the West Bank over the past year. Now forced to leave home by Israel’s violence, he hopes to study abroad.
‘Allah is sufficient for us’: Worshipping in the ruins of Gaza’s mosques
Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has left nothing untouched—schools, hospitals, homes, and hundreds of mosques. Yet the faithful remain steadfast amid the rubble.
‘Look at our suffering!’: Gaza’s message to the world after a year of genocide
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip speak frankly about the worst year of their lives, from the effects of bombing to lack of sanitation and rampant unemployment.
‘Purgatory’: Gaza’s workers trapped in the West Bank
Before Oct. 7, these Palestinian workers from Gaza had jobs beyond the strip. Now Israel has stripped them of their work permits and trapped them in the West Bank.
From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb
Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s sanitation and healthcare infrastructure has left millions without clean water or waste disposal—the consequences are already dire, and could get much worse.
‘My dream is for the war to end’: Inside Gaza’s last schools
Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian schools and universities has not deterred teachers from teaching, or students from seeking an education.
Palestinians hold generations of memory—a new documentary aims to help pass them down
‘Palestine Remembers’ is a new collaborative project between The Real News and Shadowgraph, but we need your help to make it happen.
SOAS students call out uni’s investments in white phosphorus
Student encampment organizers have shone a light on SOAS’s investments in companies that produce white phosphorus, an internationally banned incendiary weapon frequently used by the IDF.
Gaza’s children are facing the unspeakable
Living under Israeli bombardment, siege, and famine, Gaza’s children are growing up fast—and finding ways to endure.
Israel is exploiting Palestinians in dangerous ‘e-waste’ factories
The theft of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers forces many Palestinians to turn to unregulated and dangerous electronic recycling factories in the West Bank as their only option for employment.
‘Like a mini Gaza’: IDF raid on Nur Shams causes worst West Bank destruction in decades
The Real News reports from Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, where the IDF recently killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school.
Yemen defies ‘America’s failure’ to stop blockade of Red Sea
“We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.”
‘Get out Yankee’: A South Korean village’s fight against the US military
Since 2016, the residents of the village of Soseong-ri have protested the construction of THAAD, a US missile defense system that uses Korean land to protect US military bases throughout the Pacific.
Javier Milei and Latin America’s New Right
Like El Salvador’s Bukele, the Argentine leader couples tough-on-crime policy with a vicious agenda for austerity, deregulation, and privatization.
Colombian farmers take back land stolen from them by Big Oil
150 families displaced from their farms near Arauquita, Colombia 20 years ago have reclaimed their land from the Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
India’s growing pension movement: Protests rise as BJP government sticks to the new pension policy
Thousands of workers are taking to the streets and staging strikes to demand a return to the old pension system.
Colombia’s drug war returns as peace deal sputters
As the 2016 peace deal struggles to deliver lasting changes, many young Colombians are faced with two options: a life of crime, or the life of an armed revolutionary.
Farmers in Colombia fight multinational oil companies to get their land back
Journalist and filmmaker Rodrigo Vazquez-Salessi reports on the ground from rural Colombia, where displaced families have returned to reclaim their land and to take on the oil companies that are trying to displace them again.
Hunger, illness, thirst: In Khan Yunis, Gaza’s survivors cling to life
In the south of the Gaza Strip, families displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign must fend for themselves in tents without running water or electricity.
‘Fascism never left Germany’: Berlin’s repression of pro-Palestine activists
From beatings to arbitrary arrests, Germany’s crackdown on all those who dare defy the country’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza targets everyone from Palestinian refugees to anti-Zionist Jews.
Philippines workers denounce police killing of Jude Fernandez, labor leader
Fernandez’s killing by Philippine National Police comes amid a worsening climate of repression for labor under the Marcos Jr. administration.
On the ground in Jenin with the West Bank’s resistance fighters
‘They call us terrorists. Who planted terrorism? Wasn’t it they? As long as there is occupation there is no future for the people. There will be no future unless they let us live.’
‘Long live Akbelen’: In Turkey, villagers fight deforestation in coal mine project
The Akbelen Forest Resistance’s mission to save a centuries old-forest from the Limak Holding coal conglomerate has brought them face-to-face with Turkish security forces.
The far right has hijacked Chile’s new constitutional process. Women and LGBTQ activists are fighting back.
Chile’s 2019 Social Explosion demanded a new constitution to replace the current Pinochet-era document. But the right has now gained control of the process.
30 years after Yugoslavian socialism, Slovenian unions fight for the workers capitalism has forgotten
When Yugoslavian socialism collapsed three decades ago, Slovenian workers faced a new reality of capitalist exploitation, but they got McDonald’s in return. We talk to trade union leader Ana Jakopič about the class struggle in Slovenia today.
‘A new form of colonization’: Argentinian workers confront the IMF
A spiraling debt crisis triggered by former President Macri’s IMF loans has sent the value of Argentina’s currency plummeting, and with it the real wages of the working class.
Namibian workers protest ‘slave labor’ at corporation founded during apartheid
Shoprite workers in Namibia have hit the picket line after one woman’s suicide due to grueling conditions, including bullying and sexism in the workplace.
Indonesia’s Jokowi targets labor rights in the name of ‘job creation’
President Jokowi Widodo’s 2020 Omnibus Bill slashed a range of protections for workers in the name of attracting foreign investment. Trade unions say they won’t abide it.
“The president forced our comrade to die”—South Korea’s workers confront Yoon Seok Yeol’s labor crackdown
After the self-immolation protest death of a union leader, South Korean construction workers have held daily candlelight vigils and mobilized in the tens of thousands against President Yoon’s war on labor.
Israel’s West Bank checkpoints, from the eyes of Palestinian workers
“They built the wall after taking our land and properties, and now we work for them. Is there anyone in the world who commutes to work at 3:30 AM?”
‘A war-like situation’: Britain’s NHS workers strike continues
A devastating combo of austerity and inflation under Tory leadership has led to a 20 percent cut in real wages over the past decade for UK healthcare workers.
On May Day, Colombians mobilize to defend the Petro government
In stark contrast to previous years of anti-government protests, Colombians are now rallying to support their new president—and push his administration to go further.
May Day protests in Türkiye face repression as elections loom
As popular dissatisfaction builds, trade unions are pushing to remove President Erdoğan in the upcoming election.
The deplorable work conditions behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling tea
Workers at Darjeeling-area tea estates like Happy Valley in West Bengal, India, make under $3 a day.
When Bolsonaro abandoned Brazil’s poorest, the MST stepped up
The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) crucially stepped up production in their occupations and settlements to meet the needs of Brazil’s urban poor after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
UK teachers aren’t backing down
UK teachers have voted to step up their existential fight against funding cuts and toxic surveillance, showing how dire the conditions in schools have become.
For workers in the Philippines, repression and US trade policy go hand-in-hand
Organizers in the Philippines explain how their fight for labor rights is linked to the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, spurred by the New Cold War on China.
Massive anti-government protests sweep Greece after train crash kills 57 people
As demonstrators lay the blame on the Greek government, years of austerity, privatization, and anti-worker crackdowns tied to EU, IMF, and ECB structural adjustment are back in the spotlight.
60,000 strike in Barcelona for International Women’s Day
Educators, students, migrant domestic workers, LGBTQ groups, and other workers united for a one-day general strike against gender-based pay disparities, discrimination, and immigration restrictions.
