Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Our association carries out permanent solidarity campaigns for five countries in South and South-East Asia, i.e. in one of the regions of the world most affected by a “polycrisis” that is getting worse and worse. There is no longer just the addition of multiple crises - climatic and ecological, health, socio-economic, political and geostrategic - each one already fraught with devastating consequences: they feed each other, constituting, by dint of interactions, a formidable global crisis whose effects are felt from the north to the south and from the east to the west of our planet. The poor, the marginalised, the workers are paying its price all over the world - a price which means, where our Asian partners are active, that successive layers of the population are plunging into great poverty, destitution and even famine.
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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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Vietnam: The Revolutionary Movement in Indo-China Economically, Indo-China is ruled by the Bank of Indo-China, which in the year 1924 possessed a capital of 64,400,000 francs, and the transactions of which during the ‘same year amounted to 4,5 milliards. It has in its hands the “Credit Industriel et Commercial”, the French Coal Company of (...)
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