Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Below we present a comprehensive report on our association’s activities in 2024. It includes a financial solidarity report aimed at our Asian partners, but also addresses many other issues. Preparing this report requires time and attention, which we particularly lacked (or were unable to set aside) for multiple reasons during the first quarter. Thus, we have accumulated considerable delay (even more than last year) and we apologise for this. This chronic lack of time is nothing exceptional, and we need to consider the optimal date when it could and should be published (February is probably too early and April too late) to organise ourselves accordingly. The report below therefore incorporates information up to the end of March.
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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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Indonesia. Female Journalists Safeguarding Democracy: The Struggle for Press Freedom, Safe Spaces, and Dignified Work Journalists stand at the forefront in voicing truth and serving as watchdogs of power. In a democratic system, the existence of a free and independent press is the lifeblood that sustains transparency, accountability, and public participation. Yet behind this crucial role, many journalists, (…)
Purchase of Ammunition from Israel Creates Crisis in Spanish Government Following the announcement of increased military spending, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior decided to proceed with a contract to purchase bullets from an Israeli company, despite claiming in October that it had canceled cooperation. The left parties Sumar and Izquierda Unida are considering (…)
The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools
‘We’re not fighting for data for data’s sake; we’re fighting for data because it helps us make sense of the world.’ Photograph: Noaa/Reuters
United States science has (…)Slovakia’s Paradoxical Foreign Policy Stance: Between Western Integration and Neutrality Slovakia stands at a geopolitical crossroads, displaying contradictory positions on its international alignment. Recent opinion polls reveal a complex picture of a nation nominally supporting Western institutions while simultaneously harbouring desires for neutrality and non-engagement. This (…)
The Waffle Manifesto: For an Independent Socialist Canada In 1969, a caucus of NDP members known as the Waffle organized to promote a socialist and nationalist agenda, which included the replacement of US private ownership of Canadian industry with Canadian public ownership. Many of the core ideas that the Waffle stood for were first developed and (…)
The policies of Sri Lanka’s new government: a historic opportunity lost Éric Toussaint reviews the situation in Sri Lanka since 2022. From the popular revolts to the new centre-Left government elected in late 2024 and the negotiations with the creditors, this overview provides a better understanding of a country whose social, economic and political situation has (…)
After the South Korean coup attempt Hong Myungkyo highlights the central role working-class and social movements played in thwarting South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol’s attempted coup in December 2024 and considers new openings for the Left.
From stopping martial law to the articles of impeachment
On December 3, 2024, at (…)Sri Lanka needs more progressive taxation policies Sri Lanka has agreed with the International Monetary Fund to raise the withholding tax on deposits from 5% to 10%, while providing exemptions for lower-income brackets. The Government should consider higher rates for dividend payments, royalties, rent and sale of real estate. Revise withholding (…)
2025 Status Report : US wild bird populations continue steep decline The 2025 U.S. [State of the Birds report->https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2025 was released on March 13 at the 90th annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The report, produced by a coalition of leading science and conservation organizations, (…)
Growth or Degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide
I was invited to speak about ecosocialism, at Marxism 2025 in Dublin. There was a lot I wanted to say, so I decided to write down some key points I wanted to share. Here’s the presentation.
1. (…)Francis. The Pope Who Spoke Softly—and Carried the Same Big Stick Pope Francis was better than his predecessors. He integrated climate change into the Church’s concerns and widened space for discussion of social justice. His reign as Pope left the Catholic Church a marginally better place for the poor and the weak. He named more Cardinals from the Global (…)
Canada: Interview with Alexandre Boulerice, Deputy Leader of the NDP and MP for Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie Alexandre is Deputy Leader of the NDP and MP for Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie. He explains his vision of the political situation in the context of Trump’s rise and on the eve of the calling of federal elections.
1. Generally, how does the NDP plan to oppose the control announced by the Trump (…)To the Vatican with Red Flags and smiles We publish Michael Löwy’s note on a Marxist-Catholic dialogue facilitated by Pope Francis. This is a significant initiative that goes far beyond the individuals who participated. In this context, we note that Löwy’s dialogue partner the Folocare movement is a sectarian movement which has spent (…)
The Other Catastrophe: Genocide and Famine in Sudan While the situation in Sudan does not get even a tenth of the global media attention that the ongoing Zionist genocidal war in Gaza receives, the scale of the human catastrophe there is equally horrific.
Two years have passed since the war broke out in Sudan between the two sides of the (…)Changing Narratives about Croatia’s Jasenovac concentration camp The last Serbian, Roma and Jewish inmates rose up and rushed the gate 80 years ago. In the last weeks of WWII, as partisan units advanced, Croatia’s fascist leaders had begun to liquidate the camp.[AN]
Bogdan Bogdanović: Stone Flower, motif
On the anniversary of the breakout from the (…)Europe: The regime in the GDR was a dictatorship, but at the same time it tried to accommodate people, says historian Katja Hoyer An interview with British-German historian Katja Hoyer about the violent circumstances of the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, the post-war problems of the young state, the gradual economic and social stabilization and the subsequent collapse in the eighties.
When Germany was (…)India: ‘Beggar’s Bedlam’: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s defiant, magic realist novel about class clashes in Bengal Rijula Das’s translation brings alive Bhattacharya’s carnivalesque, ensuring the reader does not miss either the nuances or the riotous humour of the prose.
Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Beggars’ Bedlam pulls no punches. The very first page plunges the reader into a scene of coordinated chaos. The (…)Sri Lanka’s left government can’t (or won’t) side with the small rice farmers against the big merchants. The JVP-led NPP government has announced certified prices of paddy at long last. Minister of Agriculture K. D. Lalkantha said yesterday that the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) would purchase nadu, samba and keeri samba varieties at Rs. 120, Rs. 125 and Rs. 132 a kilo, respectively. Curiously, there (…)
On Pope Francis’s Ecological Encyclical ’Laudati Si’; Bloch; ecosocialism and left unity in Europe today Michael Löwy discusses Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical Laudati Si’, ecosocialism and left unity in Europe today
February 19,2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Michael Löwy is a militant of the French section of the Fourth International. His wide-ranging interests (…)Indonesia. 100 years of Pramoedya: State must guarantee freedom of expression and thought The momentum of commemorating the 100th anniversary of Pramoedya Ananta Toer today, February 6, 2025, must be a momentum to ensure that the state no longer imprisons citizens simply for producing works or speaking out peacefully as Pram once experienced.
From the perspective of human rights (…)
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