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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Philippines: A press conference that went awry – “Never have I seen a government being publicly castigated by the youth for its bungling attempts to distort facts and manipulate events” When young activists Jonila Castro, 21, and Jhed Tamano, 22, who were reportedly abducted on the night of Sept. 2, were presented at a press conference by the military and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict (NTF-Elcac), I felt great relief at merely knowing that the girls (...)
China: We do not need “great symbols of authority” with double standards: expel patriarchal behavior and harassment from our social movements! Every year in June, the annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square crackdown is held around the world. The annual memorial was also held in Tokyo on June 4 this year. Many young people participated in it. On that day, many young Chinese who had no direct knowledge of the incident also attended (...)
Myanmar: Nearly 90 health care workers killed in post-coup military violence Junta uses arrests and raids on medical clinics to punish or intimidate doctors and nurses.
Almost 90 health care workers have lost their lives in military and police raids and other junta-associated violence since the February 2021 coup d’etat, a network of medical workers associated with (...)Sri Lanka: Surge in Hindu nationalism concerns Tamil community In recent years, a growing undercurrent of Hindu majoritarianism and nationalism within the Tamil community has raised significant concerns about their potential repercussions on communal harmony in Sri Lanka. This phenomenon has come under scrutiny due to its manifestations in both online (...)
For The Ethnic Armenian Leadership In Nagorno-Karabakh, The Walls Are Closing In Ruben Vardanian was struggling to find a good mobile connection for his iPad as he spoke over Zoom from his dark residence in Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Sorry, we have no electricity,” he said. “It’s a challenge.”
Rolling blackouts in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh mean regular (...)China must release human rights defenders Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing now The trial of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing will begin on 22 September 2023, a few days after the second anniversary of their arrest.
We, the undersigned civil society groups, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the two activists’ immediate and unconditional release, as they (...)South Korea Declared War on Unions. Workers Are Fighting Back In the face of widespread repression, South Korean workers are rising up for fair pay and labor protections.
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Blasted Sea – Cybernetic capitalism expanding the frontier of fossil fuel extraction On 1 August in north-east Scotland, midway through the hottest summer yet, two sets of microphones were recording. One was trained on UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he stood outside a Shell-owned gas processing terminal at Scotland’s easternmost tip, unveiling a plan to authorise 100 new (...)
Korea: King the Land Is a Netflix Hit About Love and Labor Rights Can romance’s fantasy of wealth survive the labor rights movement? Let’s ask, uh, this frothy K-drama.
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During this year’s commemoration, a number of activities were (...)India: Universities – The BJP-RSS’s Killing Fields What’s unfolding in Ashoka University reflects the ascendancy of a fascistic state. No country can be self-reliant if its universities are effectively destroyed and reduced to coaching centres.
When Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage (...)United States: Electric Vehicle Factories Are Overwhelmingly Nonunion. The UAW Strike Could Change That In the year since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, its incentives and tax credits for electric vehicles (EV) have accelerated the United States’ burgeoning swath of battery plants. The EV industry will receive an estimated $220 billion by 2031, and (...)
United States: Auto Workers Strike All of the Big Three Companies for the First Time The United Auto Workers (UAW), whose 450,000 members work principally in manufacturing and parts plants, has for the first time in its history struck all three of the largest U.S. companies, Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (Chrysler and Jeep). The union is striking for a 40% wage increase (...)
Thirty Years of Oslo - 13 September 1993 and after On 13 September 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at a White House ceremony officiated by United States President Bill Clinton. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this agreement, and take stock (...)
China’s rise, ‘diminished dependency’ and imperialism in times of world disorder Esteban Mercatante is an Argentine Marxist economist, author of El imperialismo en tiempos de desorden mundial (“Imperialism in times of world disorder”), and an editorial board member of Ideas de Izquierda, where he has written extensively on the world economy and imperialism. In this (...)
Taiwan: Nurses Call For Implementation Of A Three Shift System, After 1,700 Quit This Year Nurses demonstrated in front of the legislature earlier this month. In particular, this was to call attention to the failure of the government to pass laws mandating a three-shift system for nurses.
Nurses and doctors were among those who had to handle the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. (...)Karabakh: “It feels like the apocalypse” Yesterday Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against the Armenian enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh, bombing its cities and villages in a so-called “anti-terrorist operation”. Last night, in a televised address, Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, claimed complete victory.
Around 200 (...)Imprisoned labour organisers released after signing junta pledge It remains unclear whether the factory workers among the detainees, who were dismissed after requesting a pay increase, will be able to return to their jobs
A group of workers and their supporters, who were arrested after demanding higher wages in the garment industry earlier this year, (...)Chinese censors shut down key LGBTQ+ social media accounts Tencent’s social media platform WeChat permanently closes 6 major accounts.
Chinese government censors have shut down key LGBTQ+ social media accounts in a further crackdown on sexual minorities.
Public accounts for the Beijing Lala Salon, Wandouhuang, Transtory, Outstanding Partners, Ace (...)
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