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ESSF runs permanent solidarity campaigns focusing on four countries: Bangladesh (the movements associated with the farmers’ organizations BKF-BKS), Indonesia (the Free Women association Perempuan Mahardika), Pakistan (the Labor Education Foundation and the Crofter Foundation) and the Philippines (MiHands Coalition in Mindanao).
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Burma/Myanmar: Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw (the army) A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
The National Unity Government’s recent (...)Myanmar – ‘Workers have lost all their rights’: Coup and Covid third wave leave factory workers at risk Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.
Ko Aung Min Thein began suffering from a headache and muscle aches in the second week of (...)Hong Kong : On threats against the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA) Medical group aligned with opposition in Hong Kong comes under o!cial scrutiny for range of criticisms by Tony Cheung (SCMP) - 15 Sep 2021 -
https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3148868/medical-group-aligned-opposition-hong-kong-comes-under
Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (...)Hong Kong’s trade unionism threatened with extinction Hong Kong’s trade unionism threatened with extinction
The HAEA public health union is particularly in the crosshairs of the authorities. It was set up at the end of 2019 in the wake of the democracy mobilisations. It quickly brought together nearly a quarter of the sector’s staff and has become (...)HKCTU process of dissolution Hong Kong’s largest opposition trade union group set to disband, with leaders beginning process of dissolution by Chris Law (SCMP)
https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3149100/hong-kongs-most-influential-pro-opposition-trade-unions
Sources say decision to dissolve will be put to a (...)Yang Kyung-soo, South Korea’s Top Independent Labor Leader, Has Been Arrested In a predawn raid on September 2, the South Korean government arrested Yang Kyung-soo, president of the country’s largest labor confederation. Yang is the thirteenth president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in a row to be jailed.
Before dawn on September 2, 2021, hundreds of police (...)South Korea: IndustriALL Global Union condemns arrest of KCTU president YANG Kyeung-soo and demands his immediate release 4 September, 2021IndustriALL Global Union is outraged over the arrest of KCTU president YANG Kyeung-soo in the early hours of 2 September. The arrest came after Korean police raided the KCTU headquarters, dragging out YANG Kyeung-soo.
An arrest warrant had been issued 20 days earlier by the (...)Why Do Socialists Oppose Zionism? Note by the author: The following notes are a very sketchy primer. It is not a detailed historical analysis nor a discussion of the Palestinian liberation struggle. The readings cited at the end provide some background and insight on these critical subjects. 1) Zionism is often called, by its (...)
Morocco – Elections to renew the façade of despotism: building a workers’ and popular relationship of forces that liberates our people After 60 years of talking about democracy, under various successive names, like “constitutional monarchy”, “democratic process”, “Hassanian democracy" and “democratic transition”, no one dares claim that Morocco is a democratic country other than the official media and liars who have benefited from (...)
French Anti-Pass Demonstrations on the Eve of the Presidential Election John Barzman was born in Los Angeles and lives in France. A university professor at the University of Le Havre, he is active in the SNESup union and Ensemble! His U.S. experience includes serving on the National Committee of the SWP and United Secretariat of the Fourth International between (...)
Malaysia PM Ismail Sabri: Over 1,730 M’sian LGBTs have been sent to ’religious’ rehab camp People sent to the camp are taught about religion, health, HIV and AIDS.
As of June 2021, 1,733 Malaysians from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have been sent to a rehabilitation camp run by Malaysia’s Islamic Development Department (JAKIM), Malaysia’s Prime Minister (...)Philippines: Lawyer in South Cotabato shot dead outside house, 65th killed under Duterte Lawyer Juan Macababbad was a public interest lawyer. Two unidentified gunmen shot him in the head seven times.
Public interest lawyer Juan Macababbad was shot dead outside his home in Surallah town, South Cotabato, on Wednesday, September 15, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) (...)Sri Lanka: ‘The Oddest of Odd Corners’: Rosa Luxemburg’s Afterlife in Ceylon Rosa Luxemburg, the early 20th century Polish-Jewish revolutionary born in Zamosc 150 years ago on March 5th this year, had no reason in her frenetic political, intellectual, and literary activism to attend to an inconsequential island in the Indian Ocean.
However, decades after her murder in (...)China: Neither imperialist nor part of the Global South Presentation
China’s insertion in the global capitalist system has prompted many critical analyses among the Marxist left. Most debated is a simple but basic question: is China socialist, or capitalist? Some are unequivocal. For example, a recently published “manifesto” of a group centered at the (...)United States: How Work Is Killing Us – Three Authors Look at Work’s Devastation of Life A Review of Worked Over: How Round-The-Clock Work is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum (Basic Books, 2021); Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe (Bold Type Books, 2021) and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and The (...)
Philippines – Nurses in diapers: General Santos hospital workers look for jobs elsewhere (1st UPDATE) To cut down on PPE costs, the nurses were asked to wear adult diapers and work for 12 hours per shift in a COVID-19 facility.
Many nurses at the city hall-run Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Memorial Hospital (DJPRMH) have left and found work elsewhere due to pressures and poor working (...)Washington Is Shedding Crocodile Tears for Afghan Women War hawks constantly cite women’s liberation in support of the US occupation of Afghanistan. That’s transparent hypocrisy: during the Cold War, the US supported patriarchal fundamentalists against a party dedicated to advancing the cause of Afghan women.
The entire US political class is shedding (...)The Unbearable Silence of Turkish Intellectuals Why did Turkey support Azerbaijan in its war effort? Why Turkey continues to impose economic blockade against Armenia from the first day of its independence? Isn’t this the legacy of the 1915 Genocide?
When the second Karabakh war errupted on September 27 last year, with massive Azerbaijani (...)Parliamentary election: Norway turns left It was evident by about midnight on Monday, September 13, that the Left bloc, spearheaded by the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet), was comfortably bagging an important victory in Norway’s elections.
The Red Party’s Bjonar Moxnes. Photo and graphics: roedt.no. Inset: Toni Usman. Image supplied
The (...)Afghanistan – Kabul Diaries – Parts 11 & 12. No to trade in Pakistani currency – Afghan women defy Taliban by posting traditional colourful dresses The daily Jeddojehad [Struggle], a leftwing online Urdu-language daily in Pakistan is posting reports from Kabul. Filed by Yasmeen Afghan [not the real name], these reports depict picture from inside Kabul and cover what is often ignored in the mainstream. For a wider circulation, these reports (...)
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