Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
We are launching our annual appeal to fund our permanent Asia Solidarity Fund for the year 2025. We are in the midst of a deadly spiral of worsening crises - from the international ‘reactionary acceleration’ symbolised by the election of Donald Trump to global warming spiralling out of control. Maintaining solidarity, in all its forms, is a matter of the utmost urgency. Our association is committed to ensuring the continuity of this solidarity, including financial one, with the movements whose work we support in four Asian countries, for the help they provide to populations deeply affected by disasters of human or natural origin.
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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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Sri lanka: Funds allocated for provision of breakfast to more than 155,000 underweight preschool children The government will allocate Rs. 100 per child to provide breakfast to more than 155,000 preschool children from Jan. 2025, a government spokesperson announced on Thursday.
Speaking to journalists in Colombo, Cabinet Spokesperson and Minister of Health and Mass Media Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said (…)Eleven days that rocked South Korea: Analysing Yoon’s failed self-coup and the 2024 candlelight revolution Eleven historic days of popular struggle between President Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed self-coup on December 3 and his impeachment on December 14 sealed Yoon’s fate. Yoon’s impeachment represents a tremendous triumph of people power amid a slow-motion political suicide committed by reactionary (…)
Oil, imperialism and the struggle for ecosocialism Adam Hanieh is a professor of political economy and global development at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and the author of a new book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market.
Hanieh told a Global Ecosocialist Network meeting (…)Mozambique: A New Revolution, This Time Without Revolutionaries The largest protests in Mozambique’s history have erupted following contested October 2024 elections, marking a dramatic shift in the country’s political landscape. What began as demonstrations against electoral fraud has transformed into a nationwide revolutionary movement, led by a new (…)
For the release of Ruan Laila Sonali - a woman leader in Bangladesh Strong protest and condemnation of the arrest of Runa Laila Sonali, Vice President of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Kishani Sabha and Barisal district branch, in a false, fabricated, baseless and conspiratorial case
Today, 28 December 2024, Bangladesh Krishak Federation President (…)CPBML (Bangladesh): Discussion meeting in observance of the 7 years of the reorganization of the Party Seven years of the reorganization of the Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML (CPBML) celebrated in Dhaka, Bangladesh
On the occasion of the 7th year of the reorganization of the Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML (CPBML), a discussion meeting was held at the party’s central office: 27/11/1-A, (…)Sri Lanka. Informal sector: ‘Live-in domestic workers are invisible; even GNs unaware’ Protection Union’s Gen. Secy. Kalpa Maduranga points out that ‘domestic workers being excluded from Nat’l Minimum Wage Act, is an act of modern slavery’ that ‘excludes them from EPF, ETF, gratuity, maternity benefits’
Despite being represented by tens of thousands of workers, Sri Lanka’s (…)Indonesia regional politicians must be directly elected! Jakarta — President Prabowo Subianto’s proposal to restore the indirect election of regional heads (Pilkada) through Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) is not really a solution to the high political costs of elections.
The proposal is seen as only moving the problems faced by society (…)Indonesian prisoner amnesty and conditional release must not create forced labour Adhyasta Dirgantara, Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita, Jakarta — Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) Deputy Director Maidina Rahmawati is urging the administration of President Prabowo Subianto to remain transparent and accountable about giving amnesty to 44,000 convicted prisoners. (…)
Fight words with words, Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) opposes banning of books Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) does not support the call by certain Muslim organisations for a re-ban on Salman Rushdie’s book Satanic Verses.
IMSD calls upon Muslims to recall the views expressed by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan well over a century ago. In his time, he staunchly opposed (…)How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories Facebook has severely restricted the ability of Palestinian news outlets to reach an audience during the Israel-Gaza war, according to BBC research.
Omar el Qataa is a photojournalist operating out of northern Gaza
In a comprehensive analysis of Facebook data, we found that newsrooms in the (…)Palestinian Christians struggle to find hope at Christmas The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank has good reason to consider itself the capital of Christmas but this year it does not feel like it.
Reuters A baby Jesus figure was placed on top of a pile of rubble in Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, with sermons focusing on the (…)A year of mass attacks reveals anger and frustration in China What is driving people to murder strangers en masse? It’s a question many in China are asking
Getty Images An elderly man rides a bicycle with bird cages on a street in Beijing on November 20, 2023.
“The Chinese people are so miserable,” read a social media post in the wake of yet another (…)Sri Lanka: Yukthi outraged by extractive external debt restructuring agreement Following is a statement by Yukthi, calling for economic policies that lead to a process of sustainable development that uplifts working people. It opposes a return to high-interest international capital markets, which have already created an intolerable burden for the people
On 13 December (…)Student unrest in Serbia against the President The current student protests in Serbia, which can be considered one of the largest in the country in recent decades, began with the blockade of a single faculty in Belgrade and gradually spread to most institutions throughout Serbia. The protests were led by self-organised students and supported (…)
Ukraine: Support for Ukraine ‘until it wins’ falls sharply in western Europe, poll finds YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countries
Readiness to support Ukraine “until it wins” has fallen sharply across western Europe at a critical time for the country, a survey suggests, as Donald Trump’s forthcoming return to the (…)Israel storms northern Gaza’s last hospital as remaining residents forced south The attack on Kamal Adwan marks the culmination of a three-month campaign of ethnic cleansing and destruction in the northern city of Beit Lahiya.
Palestinians evacuate from northern Gaza amid Israel’s siege, December 4, 2024. (Omar El-Qattaa)
In the morning hours of Dec. 27, Israeli army (…)Opinion | From Auschwitz to Gaza, With a Stopover in The Hague Benjamin Netanyahu will not travel to Poland next month for the main ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, over concern that he could be arrested on the basis of the warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. (…)
Opinion | No Infrastructure Remains in Northern Gaza, for Terrorism or for Life The army invaded the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in Beit Lahia early Tuesday morning and ordered all of the patients and the medical staff to evacuate.
Dozens of frightened people, some of them barely able to stand, crowded into the hospital yard in the cold Gaza night; then the soldiers (…)New Evidence Reveals Netanyahu’s Relentless Efforts to Block Hostage Deal, Report Shows ’Torpedo the Deal’: Israel’s Channel 12 News exclusive report features new documents and previously unheard conversations showing Netanyahu’s efforts to sabotage any hostage deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference at IDF headquarters last October.Credit: Abir (…)
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