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ESSF is an association for international solidarity. Its website informs on peoples struggles as well as on in-depth debates. It wishes to be a tool for all those fighting for a world of solidarity.
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Roots of a crisis: The Crackdown in Belarus In Belarus, a populist government that long claimed the support of its people finds itself repressing a historic protest movement – and its demands for a more democratic politics.
Over recent days, world news has reported upon public unrest in Belarus on an unseen scale, with thousands of (...)Disaster solidarity – “Mutual aid is a social movement” Mutual aid is a social movement. As they keep saying, from Los Angeles to Lewisham, it is about solidarity, not charity. The slogan is not, “let me rescue you,” but “we need each other”. Mutual aid groups are not NGOs, but networks of solidarity. The aren’t set up to collect donations in the way (...)
“To Halt Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Leninism” Despite the obvious parallels with coronavirus shutdowns, states still show little determination to put in place the measures we’ll need to deal with the climate emergency. For Andreas Malm, we need to stop seeing climate change as a problem for the future — and use state power now to impose a (...)
Lebanon: ‘It is time for rage’ A statement from left-wing collective Ta’amim al-Masaref in Lebanon, where a protest movement of revolutionary proportions is shaking the state to its foundations.
An uprising is underway in the streets of Beirut, following the huge explosion that rocked the city on 4 August, killing at least (...)Sri Lanka: Why Should We Protect Public Wealth? On the issue of the Eastern Container Terminal of the Colombo Port The issue of the future of the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) of the Colombo Port has once again become a live issue as the port workers for the second time had organized a demonstration seeking a firm assurance from the government that the new terminal will remain in the hands of the Sri (...)
Sri Lanka: How Would the New Government Govern? Two more days to the Parliamentary election to elect 196 members. On the basis of the results, additional twenty nine national list members will be selected by the respective parties. When this piece appears two days after the election, the full outcome of the election would be known if there (...)
The EU & Central Europe: The New Right Wing Triangle in the Trump-Orbán-Netanyahu Era On 8 July, 2020 a videoconference was broadcast by Viktor Orbán, Janez Janša and Aleksandar Vučić, respectively the heads of government of Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia. The moderator, François-Xavier Bellamy, was the leader in the European Parliament (EP) of the French right-wing party Les (...)
Slovenia: The struggle against authoritarian liberalism is more urgent than ever Rarely given any space in international media, Slovenia has recently been filling the (web)pages of newspapers like Le Monde, The Guardian, Courrier International and the BBC. Reports were about thousands of people protesting on bicycles against the new right-wing government, led by Janez Janša (...)
Thailand protesters ’cross the Rubicon’ and risk all to criticise the monarchy Anger has been building since 2014 coup in which prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power, with students now holding rallies almost daily
Thai protesters have broken a long-standing taboo, risking lengthy jail terms to criticise the king, after weeks of student-led pro-democracy rallies (...)Statement on Belarus elections — For free elections, against repression! For three days since the presidential elections in Belarus, the streets of all major cities of the country have become the arena of heavy clashes between protesters and police. Despite the fact that by all independent exit polls and evidence of observers, the opposition candidate Svetlana (...)
Malaysia: Stop targeting low-wage workers, MTUC tells HR Minister The Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) has hit out at Human Resources Minister M Saravanan for once again urging Malaysians to take up any jobs including low-wage positions in the dirty, dangerous and difficult sectors.
Rather than urging Malaysians to take up low-wage jobs, MTUC (...)Sri Lanka: SEP says election exposes historic crisis of capitalist rule Elections in Sri Lanka resulted in a landslide re-election victory for the authoritarian populist President Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). Most other parties’ vote collapsed. The left went into these elections divided, with some historic left leaders (...)
Indonesia: Rights activists criticise planned involvement of TNI in counter-terrorism The Civil Society Coalition for Security Sector Reform is urging the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) to be transparent in its deliberations on the Draft Presidential Regulation (Perpres) on the Role of the Indonesian Military in Tackling Terrorism.
The call emerged after the (...)Pakistan: The alternative is digital Journalism is starting to flourish online in Pakistan through alternative and independent platforms
Never the freest in the world in terms of media for most of this century or the past one, Pakistan is now a dismal case study in eroding freedom of expression and right to information – two (...)Theory: Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.
It is now 25 years since the death of Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), one of the 20th century’s most engaging and original economists. Economics is not (...)United States: Trump Plans to Sabotage Elections in Bid to Retain Power Trump and the Republicans are planning to sabotage the November election in order to throw it into chaos.
They hope to use this to keep Trump in power and the Senate with a Republican majority.
They plan to do this by two campaigns. One is to undermine the post office to make counting of (...)Slovakia: Normality or Solidarity – The Worrying Undertones of Eastern European (Post)pandemic Governance Looking at the trajectory of the development of the pandemic since the outbreak, most of the countries in Eastern Europe rank as the most successful in containing the virus. These are the countries where the number of confirmed cases is disproportionately low and where life has returned to a (...)
Coronacapitalism and Hindu Rashtra in India This virus with the invincible will to survive has a way of mutating in the petri dishes of local cultures and politics to produce phenomena that seem bizarre, yet painfully familiar. In India, twin processes have driven the country in accelerated mode since the parliamentary elections of 2014, (...)
Health (World) – Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19 Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone. That is why the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) is dangerous not only for the United States, but for (...)
United States : US Green Party presidential candidate offers socialist solutions The 2020 national convention of the Green Party of the United States, held online, ratified the nomination of Howie Hawkins as its candidate for President, winning 205 out of 357 total votes cast in state primaries. Angela Walker is his running mate for Vice President. Barry Sheppard (...)
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