Diego Garcia

Workers of the world - Round-up

By Pablo Velasco Support Egyptian asbestos workers Release imprisoned Chinese workers British hypocrisy over the Chagos islands Support Egyptian asbestos workers Workers at the Aura-Misr (Aura-Egypt) Company, a manufacturer of asbestos products, have been on strike since 6 June, in protest over deadly working conditions and their employer's anti-worker policies. In April it was discovered that 46 of the company's 90 shop floor workers had contracted asbestos-related cancer. A decree issued by the Ministry of Manpower in 2002 ordering the company to close the plant pending remedial measures was...

Update on boat to reclaim Diego Garcia

Update on the boat to take Chagossians back to Diego Garcia From Lalit, Mauritius Lalit's plan to go to Diego Garcia by boat has caught everyone's imagination. World-wide. The dream seems to be going to be able to come true. And even more than we dreamt of at the beginning, may come true. Over a hundred different organizations and individuals from all over the world have contributed to launching the 'idea' plus another hundred or two hundred in Mumbai at the WSF. First, the plan for a boat to go to Diego Garcia began to grow even before Mumbai, and to become a plan for a whole Flotilla to go...

Reclaiming Diego Garcia: support the ship!

Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, is one of the biggest US military bases outside the USA itself. To clear space from it, the people of the islands were deported by the British government, the former colonial ruler. A group of socialists from Mauritius are now sailing on a ship to Diego Garcia to demand the removal of the base and the people's right to return. Please ask your trade union branch, student union, Labour or SSP MP, union leader, etc. to send a message of support. Email to: lalitmail@intnet.mu . Read more below. Today, the headlines in one of the biggest dailies, Le Mauricien, in...

Diego Garcia in Times of Globalisation

Lalit - full name Lalit de Klas, French Creole for "class struggle" - is a socialist organisation based on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Broadly Trotskyist in its politics (though interestingly it does not use the word, or much other traditional revolutionary terminology, in its public documents), the group originated in various anti-privatisation and other social struggles in the late 1970s and 1980s. Their book, Diego Garcia in Times of Globalisation , produced by leading activists from Lalit, is an attempt to relate the geo-politics of American military activity in the Indian Ocean...

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