Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The year 2021 has been, for our association, one of the most intense both in terms of political commitments to solidarity and donation drive. It was exceptional in both respects.
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Media Statement (India) - Delhi Mundka Factory Fire: A Culpable Homicide Occurred Due to States Negligence and Ignorance WPC expresses our sadness for the families of the bereaved and the injured workers in the Mundka fire and also reiterates our solidarity with them. WPC is extremely shocked at the factory fire which engulfed the lives of 30 workers, as per official claims. It is estimated that many more workers (...)
Joining the West - Finland and Sweden opted to join NATO A famous quote from Desmond Tutu – ‘if you are neutral in situations of injustice then you are choosing the side of the oppressor’ – has been widely used and abused since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In numerous fora, it has been deployed to harangue countries into abandoning their neutrality and (...)
Internationalisation of the yuan complicated further by geopolitics China scored a win with the IMF assigning a higher weight to the yuan in its special drawing rights currency basket. But the currency still has a long way to go before it can challenge the global status of the euro and the US dollar
China has scored a win as the International Monetary Fund has (...)Philippines elections: A Marcos government and the pink movement Around noon on June 30, a new government headed by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will be inaugurated. At about the same time, a new movement that took shape in the final leg of Vice President Leni Robredo’s 2022 presidential campaign will formally launch its manifold presence in the post-election (...)
Philippines elections: The battle to change mindsets Whether Vice President Leni Robredo wins or loses in the May 2022 elections, the campaign to make her president has produced something unprecedented in Philippine politics. It has unleashed a tide of citizen activism rarely seen in elections. It has spawned a social movement that seeks nothing (...)
Why Filipinos vote the way they do While a good number of thoughtful Filipinos believe that the May 2022 presidential election is a watershed moment for our country and for generations to come — one that demands the most careful reflection about the kind of nation we want to be — this is not necessarily how the majority of voters (...)
Malaysia: The ‘almost forgotten’ radical Malay nationalists The “official national history” of Malaysia, as portrayed in our school history textbooks, gives prominence to the role played by the moderate United Malays National Organisation (Umno), together with the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA) and the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC), in achieving (...)
Russia: The Case of Chechnya In the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, the map of Eastern Europe has been comprehensively redrawn. More than a dozen new countries have appeared as a result of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav wars of succession, an arc of newly sovereign states stretching from (...)
United States: Where is the Left on pandemic politics? Tempest contributors Justin Feldman and Sam Friedman discuss the shortcomings of the Left in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and try to trace a path forward.
The Left in the United States and many other countries have had little presence in pandemic politics. As Adam Turl said, “The organized (...)Why does Putin make all the Soviet dead of the Second World War... “Russians”? May 9 has come and gone, and as has been the constant for the past two decades, both Mr. Putin’s enemies and friends have repeated in unison that on May 9 of every year, Russia remembers and honors the 20 or 25 plus million of its dead during World War II. It even seems that in recent years, and (...)
A shrinking fraction of the world’s major crops goes to feed the hungry, with more used for nonfood purposes Profound changes are underway in food production as agriculture and agribusiness respond to the growth of the global middle class. Harvests of crops for processing, exports and industrial use are booming. Deepak Ray unpacks a research paper that projects what these changes will mean for 10 (...)
South Africa has entered a new phase of the COVID pandemic: what that means Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring – known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages – of the Omicron variant first identified (...)Gulf of Mexico - Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tropical storms into monster hurricanes.
It’s (...)Malaysia: Children’s Unilateral Conversion Cannot Be Defended The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) is deeply disturbed by the position taken by the Perlis State Mufti defending the unilateral conversion of the three minor children of single mother Loh Siew Hong by their father. This same position, we believe, is also taken by the Perlis (...)
COVID has reached North Korea, threatening a humanitarian emergency The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus.
While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country (...)Sri Lankan unions launch campaign for minimum wage rise Twelve unions across Sri Lanka have launched a joint campaign to demand a rise of 10,000 rupees (US $49) in the monthly minimum wage of private sector employees, and to oppose the government’s decision to exclude private sector employees from a scheme that grants a monthly allowance of 5,000 (...)
Sri Lanka: Women, activism and intimacy Over the past several years, I have met and interviewed a number of political activists, both male and female, trying to understand how and why they came to do what they do, what made them often go against the grain, and take unpopular positions, sometimes at considerable personal risk and (...)
India heatwave: why the region should prepare for even more extreme heat in the near future An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world facing temperatures well above 40℃. Although this has not broken all-time records for the regions, the hottest part of the year is yet to come.
Though the (...)History (France): The Defeat of François Mitterrand’s Reform Program Still Haunts the French Left Despite Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s strong showing in the recent presidential campaign, France’s left was defeated again by the neoliberal center and far right. The roots of that weakness lie in the Mitterrand government’s capitulation to neoliberalism in the 1980s.
France has once again come out of a (...)Social Movement (Ukraine): What’s going on in Ukraine and why left solidarity is important Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Nataliia Lomonosova and Oleksandr Kyselov, the delegation from Ukraine’s Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) to the annual conference of the Danish Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten), gave these greetings to its delegates on May 15.
The Red-Green (...)
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