WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: Agricultural and food sovereignty - the bluff of Made in Italy. (Part One) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

From October 13 to 15, 2023, in Rome, Coldiretti promoted the national
meeting "I am with the farmers", "the best Italian food", and founded
the Little Italy Village of excellent, typical products. With the
contribution of ENI, Intesa San Paolo, Snam, Terna, Philip Morris
Italia, Ferrovie dello Stato, ENEL, Gruppo Cremonini, McDonald's...
which are not small and organic. ---- The "Small is beautiful" fairy
tale is contradicted by real data: the beef sector has a trade deficit
of 3.3 billion, which means that more live fattening animals, fresh and
frozen meat, preparations are imported from Poland, France, Holland and
Spain as what we export. Self-catering only covers 42.5% of the market,
a market managed by multinational companies such as Inalca (production),
Marr (distribution, Cremonini Group), Chef Express and Roadhouse (catering).

      Italy imports more agrifood in value terms than it exports: 29.8
billion versus 29.4 billion (Source: Ismea 2022); Fish and extra virgin
olive oil from Spain, live cattle and wheat from France, cheese from
Germany, soybeans from Brazil, with 400,000 fewer farms in 10 years and
a decrease in cultivated area of 2.5%, 10% of land subject to fragility:
a strange concept of "food sovereignty".

     Food supply chains are part of a global food system governed by a
few multinational corporations, as in the case of grains: when Syngentya
and Monsanto (now Bayer) have absolute control of the world seed market
with Corteva Agriscience, Basf, Kws with 58.3%, Archer Daniels Midland
(Adm), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfuss control 90% of world trade and
its supply chains: they are able to artificially create the prices of
corn, soybeans and canola; Under the pretext of the war in Ukraine, they
increased their profits by 74% in 2022 to 2021, where Ukrainian wheat
accounts for only 2% of world exports of 3,000 million tons to 500
million tons per year.

     The pesticide market is held at 62.3% by Syngentya, Bayern, BASF
and Corteva. Supranational companies hold 60.5% of the livestock sector,
"Genetic Improvement" (GMO) is in the hands of three multinational
corporations. The effect of oligopolies and monopoly cartels is to
increase consumer prices and maximize profits.

     In economics, if you hold more than 40% of the market, you have a
monopoly and convert the efficiency gains through economies of scale
into profits for the company, which further strengthens itself. On the
other hand, the Made in Italy government in Brussels, through the
European People's Party, is fighting for new GMOs and against the Green
Deal and the Farm-to-Fork strategy, i.e. H. halving the use of
pesticides by 2030; Italy is the country that imports and consumes the
most pesticides in Europe and sixth in the world: 11,500 tons per year
with 400 different substances.

    The agricultural and food system is structurally linked to the
capitalist economic system, whose prices are set on the (private) stock
exchanges of Chicago, Paris and Mumbai, whose main shareholders are the
financial investment funds Black Rock, Vanguard, JP Morgan and State
Street Corp. are . Capital International Investors: You bet on price
developments without having a purchase contract. These funds also
control seed and agricultural production companies and distribution
chains: a gigantic global food monopoly that, by speculating on "crisis
and inflation," has reaped $30 billion in dividends in two years at the
expense of farmers and families.

     In Italy, the ruler of industrial agriculture is the Bonifiche
Ferraresi (BF) holding, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, blessed by
Coldiretti and Meloni. It owns all major agri-food segments:

- Production and sale of seeds, Società Italiana Sementi SpA;

- Ownership of agricultural land, Bonifiche Ferraresi and BFagricoltura
SpA, the largest in terms of cultivated area of 7,750 hectares in
Ferrara, Arezzo, Oristano, Grosseto (rice, corn, durum and soft wheat,
barley, sugar beet, alfalfa, soy). , vegetables, medicinal plants, fruit).

- Drafting supply chain contracts, Filiera bovini Italia srl with
Coldiretti partnership;

- Grain milling systems with Milling Hub SpA;

- Product transformation with BF agro-industriale Srl;

- Food brands in supermarkets with "The Seasons of Italy";

- Consorzi Agrari d'Italia Spa, services and products for agricultural
operators.

- Eurocap Petroli for the sale of fuels for agricultural vehicles (135
million sales as of June 30, 2022)

As of October 2022, the main shareholders of BF are Aurum Spa of
Federico Vecchioni, former CEO of Confagricoltura, with 20.13%; Dompè
Holding Srl with 20.04%, a financial company with reference to the
multinational pharmaceutical company Dompè; Cariplo Foundation with
19.29%; Cdp equity Spa, public investor on behalf of Cassa Depositi e
Prestiti - in turn 83% controlled by the Ministry of Economy and 16% by
banking foundations -. BF continues to expand by acquiring cereal
production companies such as Ghigi 1870 Spa, Bia Spa (couscous), Pasta
Fabianelli Spa in order to have absolute control of the Italian wheat
supply chain.

   "the government does not want to disturb those who want to do and
create wealth", Giorgia Meloni at Villaggio Coldiretti Milan, October
2022, first public outing.

    Industrial and intensive agriculture and its food supply chain are
the main causes of the loss of biodiversity, the disappearance of
habitats through monoculture, climate change and the degradation of
ecosystems. Of food inequality and access to food. They are a source of
diseases, of a reduction in life expectancy which affects consumers with
poor health, reduced to the biological capital of the healthcare
industry, whose shareholders are often the same as the agro-industrial
sector.

Roberto Brioschi

Thanks to Altreconomia Edizioni and Riccardo Bocci Technical Director
"Rete dei Semi Rurali"

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WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, OCL CA #335 - United States: the reasons for the anger (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Like strikes such as those of screenwriters (WGA) and actors
(SAG-AFTRA), recent news is marked by numerous worker movements in the
United States. ---- This should not surprise us, however, the country
has been crossed throughout its history by intense struggles where the
bourgeoisie has more than once wavered before regaining control, always
with brutality and racism. Of course, our national press avoids being
interested in these subjects as much as possible and prefers to present
the country from the angle of the American dream or by making fun of the
so-called idiocy of its inhabitants.

We will briefly present the situation in the country since Covid, based
on local meetings and articles from the American press. Since 2020, the
country has been marked by the national Black Lives Matter protest
movement and its fierce repression/repression by the American
bourgeoisie. In the midst of the Covid crisis, discontent has also
largely focused on the question of salary.
During this period, many employees (often the most precarious and unable
to work remotely) found themselves unemployed following the liquidation
of their companies or massive layoffs by large companies (1).
Working conditions in the country are particularly harsh and wages very
low for those paid at or just above the minimum wage. To give some
context, the federal minimum hourly wage is $7.25 (no increase since
2009) and is in effect in many states. No state, even the most
"progressive", exceeds $16 per hour. Currently, nearly 30% of workers
have an hourly wage of less than $15, while the minimum hourly wage for
a decent living is estimated at $25 in 2023, or even more in certain
regions.
Beginning of the end of Covid, resumption of the struggle by workers
Since the Reagan era and the advent of neoliberalism, the number of
strikes and their importance have decreased constantly until the end of
the 2010s with on average less than 100,000 strikers per year (2).
However, just before Covid, the number of strikers recorded in one year
jumped to almost 500,000 in 2018 and 356,000 in 2019. A trend was
therefore beginning to emerge with a resumption of struggles involving a
strike, a mode of action considered extreme by American union bureaucracies.
In 2021, when the recovery began and Covid became a less and less
important daily subject, spontaneous and sometimes original movements
took place. The "Great Resignation" of 2021 actually corresponds to a
longer trend with an increasing number of departures since 2010 (3).
Quitting your job has often become the only way to get better pay or
better working conditions. It is rather the media coverage of this
movement, particularly via social networks, which was able to make an
impression and initiate the resumption of this movement after the "Covid
break".
This media coverage also highlighted the "striketober" (October
strikes). Here again, social networks helped to spread the movement and
we can wonder if this has not contributed to the recovery observed today
at the national level. During the striketober, numerous local strikes
took place in various sectors: education, caregivers, food workers, etc.
During that same year, workers at Amazon and Starbucks began organizing
to found the first unions at these two giants.

The situation in 2023

Since this resumption of the struggle, an Amazon warehouse and more than
360 Starbucks coffee shops are now unionized. And this despite the
brutal anti-union fight put in place by these companies. Unions are also
popular and nearly 70% of Americans support them.
However, even if the number of union members increases, the unionization
rate is at its lowest since the early 1980s at only 10.1% in 2022. (4)

The situation is therefore still largely in favor of the capitalists in
the workplace struggle. Especially since American law largely disfavors
the formation of unions and limits the right to strike. However, the
strikes carried out in 2022 and 2023 have often been victories, even if
not all demands have always been met.
This is the case of strikes led by screenwriters and actors. These
strikes, particularly difficult and long (146 days for screenwriters!),
allowed these workers to obtain significant increases in their
remuneration and secured for their benefit, at least temporarily, the
use of artificial intelligence in their domain. We can also take as an
example the strike of automobile workers which for the moment has made
it possible to obtain, among other things, a salary increase of almost
25% over 4 years at Ford and Stellantis.
For the most part, these struggles are being waged without national
coordination between workers from different sectors. But solidarity
initiatives were put in place: Starbucks workers came to lend their
support during the screenwriters' strike pickets, who returned the favor
by towing in front of cafes. The future will tell us whether these
victories, like these solidarity initiatives, will lead to more
organized actions at the national level (which will then flirt with
illegality as American law is strict in this area).

A question may come to mind when looking at this situation: how is it
that strikes resumed with such intensity at the end of the 2010s? And
this while traditional union leadership remains quite cautious about
this mode of action?
Although several factors can explain this development, we will focus on
one in particular: the recovery of union organizations. At a conference
in New York of the Democratic Socialists of the USA (DSA), several
workers who had actively participated in strikes or unionization came to
tell their stories. These examples highlight an important point to which
we will return in conclusion.
Take the example of the nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in January 2023
(5). These workers won their strike after only 3 days, while the
Managers had warned that they would never give in during preliminary
negotiations.
According to Michelle Gonzalez (unionist and nurse), this strike would
never have taken place a few years ago, when the previous union
leadership was in place.
Thus, this flash strike is the result of long work to regain control of
their union by the workers concerned. The rank and file thus had to
reorganize to eject the corrupt union leadership. In this new direction,
the union leadership is made up of workers who participated in this
movement to take control and must be held accountable. Michelle then
explained that this organizational work linked the collective and
strengthened the balance of power during the strike, leading to victory.
This process of taking control of the union, which those concerned
describe as being similar to that of creating a union, also took place
in the shadows before most of the major strikes of 2023. This is the
case for the strike of UPS delivery workers or for the ongoing strike of
auto workers (UAW). Among the latter, the corruption cases allowed the
base to regain control and elect Shawn Fain in March 2023, who
immediately confronted the leaders of the major automobile groups (and
also proudly wore a " Eat the rich" during a video which was then widely
relayed).

These victories can also be explained by the solidarity between new and
old workers.
To reduce salaries and other benefits, companies hire new employees with
new, less advantageous contracts, while maintaining the benefits
reserved for former employees. This system ("two tier system") has been
widely denounced and has led to numerous strikes, notably at Kellogg's,
John Deere and UPS. Although it has not been abolished, in particular
because of corrupt union leadership, it remains an example of the fact
that workers will not be bought off so easily.

Conclusion

As in the rest of the world, Covid was only a very short break for
capitalists. The workers' struggles resumed very quickly. The recent
strikes, widely publicized and supported, will undoubtedly inspire new
ones. Even if this remains to be put into perspective, the victories
obtained enlighten us on the procedure to follow: organize in a united
manner. Trade unionism has many faults, but it allows us to create a
collective, a bond, an essential element in waging the difficult
struggle to put an end to capitalism. The testimonies collected also
show us that the first step is to talk with your colleague, your
neighbor or any other person who shares the same difficulties as us. It
is in the exchange between individuals that a united collective can be
initiated, capable of overthrowing the union leadership and forcing the
employers to bend through a continuous and unlimited strike. Finally,
Americans are returning to the recipes that have worked in their rich
history of social struggles. Let us hope that soon American workers will
organize across the country and, why not, with their comrades in France
and elsewhere.

Quicheman

Sources:
1
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/nations-12-largest-employers-laid-off-thousands-during-the-pandemic.html
2
https://www.statista.com/chart/19407/number-of-striking-workers-in-the-us-per-year/
3
https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-great-resignation-didnt-start-with-the-pandemic
4
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/union-membership-rate-fell-by-0-2-percentage-point-to-10-1-percent-in-2022.htm
5
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/01/12/montefiore-mount-sinai-nurse-strike-ends-staffing-ratios/

Video recommendations:
Interesting Youtube channels covering American news (in English):
SomemoreNews, Second thought
Video to understand the right to strike in the USA (in English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ac...
Journal of analysis of American news: https://www.jacobin.com
To understand the history of American struggles: "An American People's
History" by Howard Zinn (the book is quite long but it's definitely
worth it, listen to it as an audiobook if you know English)

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WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA #22: "Historia magistra vitae" - "History is the teacher of life". (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

This is a very schematic reduction of a broader Latin phrase (1) which
has sometimes given rise to mechanistic interpretations, as has happened
among theorists of socialism and in the history of the Italian and
international workers' movement. ---- In reality, if in history it is
possible to find the references to comprehensively understand the
present and to define and update our theoretical, strategic and
organizational identity, it is essential that this research is conducted
with a scientific method as history is a articulated, complex,
contradictory and deceptive phenomenon, the superficial or partial
consideration of which can lead to error and mystification, sometimes
even conscious: examples galore, precisely in reference to current
information in its broadest sense, for which the system Capitalism
continues to appear to be the only future prospect, despite the horrors
that arise from it.
In fact, considering the war in its objective extension; considering the
migrant masses made up of human beings fleeing war and poverty in search
of better conditions of existence; considering the insensitivity and
violence with which this humanity is rejected, putting their very lives
at risk, precisely by the states that boast "the most beautiful
constitutions in the world" which, to deny any right to asylum, set up
refugee camps abroad , as our government believed it could do by
agreeing with Albania; considering the environmental destruction and
pollution as a consequence of the capitalist management of the territory
for which the air, water and environment are poisoned and every storm
turns into a flood (see lastly the most recent and dramatic events in
Emilia Romagna and Tuscany) due to the widespread and lavishly
profitable cement construction carried out to the detriment of
environmental and urban maintenance; considering the decline in the
material conditions of work, wages, essential social services and
therefore the living conditions of our class; considering the fascist,
homophobic, patriarchal and racist resurgences, which weaken to the
point of nullification historical conquests regarding the rights and
protection of women and all the weakest social components of society,
well: all these phenomena constitute the cusp of a widespread and
violent intolerance against everything that is different and that in any
case claims its own autonomy which, even in everyday life, is repressed
with violent and murderous practices, as the resurgence of feminicides
dramatically and bloody demonstrates.
In this dramatic setting we find ourselves faced with indisputable
facts, which the widespread sources of information of imperialism
skillfully dematerialize into opinions: thus history becomes the "life
teacher" of capitalism and imperialism themselves and is aimed at
perpetrating the their domain.
In such a context, the very concept of "people" must be understood in
its real interclass meaning, understood in the qualifying and
non-derogatory sense of the term.
The people are in fact an entity made up of social and class strata
having different interests.
It is therefore a contradictory entity in that it expresses opposing
power relations which nevertheless define a dominant social result. In
our capitalist system this social result is the bourgeoisie, that is to
say a class that does not produce but retains, accumulates and uses for
its own exclusive and particular advantage the social wealth produced by
another internationalized and universal class which is the proletariat.
It is not the people in the abstract who create their own state, but it
is the dominant bourgeois classes who, in concrete terms, equip
themselves with the economic, legal and political institutions capable
of planning and replicating their condition of material and intellectual
supremacy over the entire society.
On the other hand, paraphrasing Marx "The ideas of the dominant class
are the dominant ideas in every era;[...]. The dominant ideas are
nothing other than the ideal expression of the dominant material
relations,[...]they are therefore the the expression of the
relationships that make a class the dominant class, and therefore are
the ideas of its domination".
This last consideration, ancient in time but very appropriate to
understand and counter the lies that are fed to us every day, explains
the economic and social dynamics through which a historically oppressed
people can become, in turn, oppressors of other peoples.: This is a
social and class dynamic that characterizes the factions that are
bloodily facing each other in Ukraine, Gaza and in all the other
widespread wars of capital, in the framework of imperialist competition
between powers for control of the world market.
This last consideration that is too often removed pushes us to
re-propose theoretical contributions from exponents historically
extraneous to the traditional "anarchist milieu", but which nevertheless
constitute fixed points for orienting our action in the present.
We refer to the text "The crisis of social democracy"(2) that Rosa
Luxemburg wrote in prison in April 1915, when the world and humanity
were overwhelmed by the first imperialist world war.
A text that recovers older indications, already dating back to the
theorists of socialism and anarchism, updated and re-proposed by R. L.
with admirable clarity and which send us back to the present in its
devastating manifestations: economic crisis; war; increased
exploitation; degradation of work; growing and widespread poverty;
marginalization of the weakest strata of society; environmental
devastation; progressive suppression of historical achievements relating
to individual and collective freedoms and protections; crisis of trade
unionism and representativeness; authoritarian drift of bourgeois
democracy; fascist and racist regurgitations, together with the
devastating manifestation of patriarchy and militarism.
"The future of civilization and humanity depends on whether the
proletariat... knows how to throw its revolutionary sword onto the
scales... either progress towards socialism or regression into
barbarism... the triumph of imperialism leads to 'annihilation of
civilization..."(3)
These very brief but effective quotations, extrapolated from an overall
text that is over a century old, are still valid today precisely because
they refer not only to the need, however necessary, to document the
horrors perpetrated by capitalism in its imperialistic dimension and
today dramatically replicated in current news, but also to the need to
evolve from the warning that emerges from these few words and which is a
clear strategic indication that anarchist communism has always picked
up: "socialism or barbarism".
Barbarism is present around us because "imperialist politics is not the
work of one or some states, it is the product of a certain degree of
maturation in the global development of capital, an international
phenomenon by definition, an indivisible whole, which can be recognize
in all its mutual relationships and from which no single state can
escape".(4)
Horror is around us, it hits us with all its deadly shock which cannot
be immediately contained: despite the protests and mobilizations against
the growing environmental devastation; despite the widespread anti-war
mobilizations for the desirable requests for an immediate cessation of
the fighting and the systematic massacre of the population of Gaza by
the Israeli army coming from the streets all over the world, because in
every war the first innocent victims are precisely the populations , and
we don't shoot at civilian populations.
But in this desperate setting we also have another task, that of
indicating the ways for the liberation of humanity from the slavery of
capital, from its wars and its devastation. We know well that the paths
of awareness are the most difficult and for this reason we believe we
should replicate another teaching, which is a very current strategic
indication coming from the history of our class (5) and in this sense,
for us, "History is the teacher of life":
Never in world history is there? was it a task anymore? urgent, more?
high, more? noble; its realization must be our common work. No sacrifice
and? too great, no burden too heavy to achieve this goal: the
restoration of peace among peoples.
Workers, mothers and fathers, widows and orphans, wounded and maimed, to
all of you who suffer from war and because of war, we cry out: Above all
borders, above the battlefields, beyond there? of the countryside and
the cities? devastated:
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Note
1) The complete phrase turns out to be: "History is in truth a witness
to the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, a teacher of life,
a messenger of antiquity". (Cicero, De Oratore, II, 9, 36)
2) Rosa Luxemburg: "The crisis of social democracy" in R. L. "Scritti
Politici", Rome 1970.
3) Ibid., op. cit.
4) Ibid., op. cit.
5) Taken from: "Poster of the Zimmerwald Conference", 5/8 September 1915.

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WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL press release: Loi Darmanin, the voice of his master RN (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

The "Asylum and Immigration" law, known as the "Darmanin law", was
passed. The government wants people to believe that this text owes
nothing to the RN. It's wrong. The RN voted for it but, above all, the
RN inspired it. Macron's five-year term marks the victory of the far
right: the institutional and legislative validation of its xenophobic
fantasies, completely out of step with the reality of immigration. ----
Whatever the future of this law, whether it is promulgated as is or
whether its most xenophobic and anti-democratic provisions are set aside
by the Constitutional Council, a step has been taken. Jordan Bardella
and Marine Le Pen recognize this with unrestrained pleasure: the
adoption of this text is an "ideological victory": end of automatic land
law, reinstatement of the offense of illegal residence, deprivation of
social benefits, automation of OQTF, establishment of migration quotas
set by Parliament, tightening of reception, accommodation and study
conditions for all foreigners. François Hollande caused a scandal by
mentioning it in 2015, the loss of nationality is now legal, for any
French binational guilty of murder of a person holding public authority.

This text marks a serious step in the fascistization of French political
life. It marks the death of the last remnants of the "republican" right,
definitively under the control of the National Rally. He is the symbol
of a liberal government which has given in to the demands of the far
right to remain in power. It demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the
parliamentary route alone and of a so-called "republican arc" to defend
the interests of our class via a minority parliamentary left, incapable
of counterbalancing this seemingly inexorable march towards a fascist
power. And this is only the beginning, in order to have an agreement the
Prime Minister did not hesitate to haggle over the AME, which she plans
to reform in January.

Worse, republican institutions have proven today that they can serve as
a stepping stone for the extreme right in order to strengthen its ideas,
whether or not it is in government. The far right does not smooth over
the exercise of power and "normalization", on the contrary it is a
poison that contaminates its environment.

Faced with this filthy Darmanin law, our only possibility is to lead an
intense anti-racist and anti-fascist mobilization, united, popular and
united, at all levels and over the long term. Alongside collectives of
undocumented immigrants, unions, anti-fascist organizations, within the
Anti-racism and Solidarity campaign, we will have to fight tirelessly
against the march of fascisation and its uninhibited racism. To protect
those we meet daily in our places of work and life from the future
effects of this law, it will be necessary to build networks of
resistance and concrete solidarity.

The extreme right, street or institutional, must be fought everywhere,
all the time. Today, more than anything, solidarity is our weapon
against racism and fascism.

Libertarian Communist Union, December 20, 2023.

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Beste lezer, medewerker, steungever,   Jouw betrokkenheid als trouwe lezer, medewerker, en steungever is onze brandstof, de drijvende kracht voor DeWereldMorgen.be.     Het afgelopen jaar was weer een pittig jaar geweest waar we uitgebreid over hebben bericht. We brachten artikels en interviews die je vaak nergens anders kon lezen: van de zaak Sanda Dia die de schijnwerper zette op klassenjustitie tot de voortdurende oorlog in Oekraïne. En van de strijd tegen de criminalisering van actievoeren met de wet van Quickenborne tot de protesten tegen de franchisering bij Delhaize en de genocide in Gaza.   Dankzij jouw steun blijven we deze onderbelichte en cruciale perspectieven brengen.  We danken ook al de geweldige medewerkers die DeWereldMorgen kleur geven met hun blogs, opinies, artikelen, video's en vertalingen! Jullie onmisbare bijdragen zijn het kloppende hart van DeWereldMorgen. We hopen dat je ook het komende jaar betrokken blijft als medewerker, lezer en steungever.    2024 staat voor de deur. En wij staan te trappelen om samen met jou dit nieuwe jaar te betreden en met hernieuwde energie te strijden voor een solidaire en rechtvaardige wereld.       Met enthousiaste groeten,   Het volledige team van DeWereldMorgen.be     Helenka, Jeroen, Keltoum, Lode, Marc en Seppe   PS: Onze website is toe aan vernieuwing. Help jij mee om dit mogelijk te maken? Klik hier   Uw Top 20 van 2023: Iran, Sanda Dia, Palestina, N-VA, BRICS, sociale strijd, depressiepandemie Tweemaal Iran, viermaal Sanda Dia waren dé topartikels van 2023. Daarnaast ook dit jaar veel belangstelling voor wat in het buitenland gebeurt en voor de sociale strijd in eigen land, met context en geschiedenis. Lees meer De 10 meest bekeken video’s van 2023: Pepinster, Paul Goossens, Delhaize, Palestina en zoveel meer Twee jaar na de ramp in de Vesdervallei is jullie belangstelling voor de slachtoffers nog even groot. Jullie keken ook talrijk naar Paul Goossens, 10 jaar Rana Plaza, Palestina (reeds voor de genocide), Paul Verhaeghe, Griekenland, Noam Chomsky, Delhaize, de zorgsector, het openbaar vervoer en het Vlaams stikstofplan.  Lees meer De hel op aarde in de 21ste eeuw, dit zijn onze 10 meest gelezen artikels over Gaza van 2023 Onze meeste artikels over Gaza vallen tevens onder de rubriek 'mediakritiek'. De vooringenomenheid van onze media over het verzet van het Palestijnse volk tegen 75 jaar repressie, kolonisatie en apartheid, lang voor 7 oktober, misleidt de publieke opinie niet langer. Beelden van een genocide zijn immers moeilijk nog te framen als 'recht op verdediging van een bezetter'.  Lees meer Copyright © 2023 GetBasic, All rights reserved.