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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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Philippines: Commons, a Model for Managing Natural Resources Future Generations at the Table: Governing and Managing
Our Water Commons
In Cebu City, the Philippines, public sector workers like Zosimo Salcedo at the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) opposed Asian Development Bank financing that would purportedly increase the burgeoning city’s water (...)The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the (...)
Resistance, Crisis and Workers in Zimbabwe ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig talks to Antonater Tafadzwa Choto about the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the impact on ordinary people, and some of the factors that are likely to worsen or mitigate the crisis in forthcoming years. Choto is a well-known labour activist, researcher and currently (...)
CSO Platform For Reform: Don’t Willfully Undermine A Democratic Malaysia We, the undersigned members of the CSO Platform for Reform, are concerned with the news of a possible declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on 23 October 2020.
The timing and political context of the announcement cannot come at a worse time. Just this week, (...)Thailand’s Free Youth movement defies regime with nightly mobilisations A week after the military-installed regime headed by former general Prayut Chan-o-cha issued an emergency decree (at 4am on October 15, while tens of thousands of demonstrators held an overnight protest outside his office) banning gatherings of more than five people, the Free Youth student-led (...)
Indonesia: New rebels, new movement, new hope The scandalous passing of the “Job Creation” bill, or more accurately, the “pro-Big-Bosses-against-people-and-environment” bill on October 5, has been met with strong opposition from large sections of the Indonesian public.
Protests began when the government proposed the draft bill early this (...)Armenian leftists: We consciously choose peace When reading texts like this, it is necessary to, first and foremost, acknowledge that their real impact is insignificant, even compared to the most toothless statements of the OSCE Minsk group and other international organisations. And therefore, the aim of such texts is not exactly some (...)
An island’s dignity in struggle: Jeju Island and Hong Kong in dialogue—Part 1 A Taiwan-born activist in Jeju Island’s anti-military movement reflects on the challenges of international solidarity. Date of interview: Nov. 14, 2019 Place of interview: Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island, South Korea Interviewee: Born in Taiwan and taking up residence on Jeju Island since 2011, (...)
What economists like Ashok Gulati still don’t understand about agriculture in India Indian farmers have read the writing on the wall. India’s economists have not.
Do Indian farmers understand the agrarian economy better than Ashok Gulati? Ridiculous as it might sound, the answer could well be: yes.
Professor Ashok Gulati is the leading agricultural economist in India, and (...)Pakistan: Silence In Swat: Memory, Militancy And The Military In Swat Valley Swat Valley used to be green. Now the green looks dull and grey. The people living here are tired. They forget. And when personal histories, and personal and collective geographies are marred with memories of violence, isn’t short-term memory loss the natural answer? Who has the courage to (...)
Britain: Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury.
Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) released new guidance to help ‘implement the new statutory curriculum’. The guidance (...)USSR: “In the Hot Summer of ‘68, We Were the Tempest in the Hungarian Teapot” – The Hungarian Maoist ‘Plotters’ In the June 9th 1968 issue of the Hungarian central party newspaper Népszabadság, there is a short news piece hidden on the bottom of page 13:
The Capital Court issued a verdict on Saturday, in the conspiracy case of György Pór et. al. The court found Pór and Sándor Bencze guilty of initiating a (...)India: ‘Why Should We Not Rid Ourselves of This Entire Problem?’: Bhagat Singh on Religion The moot point is that even if one keeps one’s religion a private matter, does it not heighten a feeling of alienation in people’s hearts? Does it not affect the aim of attaining complete freedom?
On Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, an extract from The Bhagat Singh Reader, edited by Chaman Lal (...)Indonesia: publish details about mining concessions! Jakarta — A non-government organisation focusing on mining in South-East Asia, Transforming Energy and Development (Trend Asia), is urging the government to reveal detailed information on mining contracts in Indonesia. Trend Asia representative Ahmad Ashov made the call on International Right To (...)
Thailand: Kraisak Choonhavan (1947–2020) Kraisak Choonhavan, a Journal of Contemporary Asia author and long-time friend of the journal, passed away on June 11, after a long fight with cancer. He was 72.
Born in Bangkok, Kraisak attended the elite Saint Gabriel’s College in Bangkok before his father, Chatichai, and his family, were (...)India: ’Class-Consciousness Can Stop Communal Rioting’: Bhagat Singh on Religious Violence If religion is separated from politics, then we can all come together in politics even if we belong to different religions, wrote Bhagat Singh.
On Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, an extract from The Bhagat Singh Reader, edited by Chaman Lal and published by HarperCollins India.
The essay (...)West Papuans: ‘Veronica Koman is us’ The Ebamukai Solidarity Team for Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman repaid her scholarship to the Indonesian government on September 16.
Koman has been living in exile in Australia since last year. She has played a critical role in documenting Indonesian human rights abuses against (...)Indonesia: Prabowo approves recruitment of 1,000 Special Autonomy soldiers in West Papua Toyiban, Manokwari — Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has approved a program to recruit 1,000 Special Autonomy non-commissioned officers (Bintara Otsus) which was proposed by the West Papua/Kasuari/XVIII Regional Military Command (Kodam).
Kodam Kasuari commander Major General Ali Hamdan Bogra (...)United States: The Supreme Court and Denial of Democratic Rights Trump’s appointee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, whose approval will be jammed through in unprecedented haste by the Republican controlled Senate on October 26.
Barrett is on the far right among judges. A member of a fringe religious group that believes the husband is the head of the (...)Why is the nationalist right hallucinating a ‘communist enemy’? From Trump to Bolsonaro, reactionary leaders are invoking a communism that no longer exists as a way of attacking the left
How can it be that a presidential election in the US in 2020 is being fought by the Republicans on the febrile ground of anti-communism? Trump claims that the Democratic (...)
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