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ESSF runs permanent solidarity campaigns focusing on four countries: Bangladesh (the movements associated with the farmers’ organizations BKF-BKS), Indonesia (the Free Women association Perempuan Mahardika), Pakistan (the Labor Education Foundation and the Crofter Foundation) and the Philippines (MiHands Coalition in Mindanao).
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A Survey of Comintern Auxiliary Organizations – Part 5: ‘International Workers Aid’ 1921–37 (IWA / MRP) The International Workers’ Aid (IWA), also known by its Russian acronym MRP, was launched as an emergency campaign to help alleviate a widespread famine in Soviet Russia. Founded in Berlin on September 12, it grew into a global movement seeking not only to assist economic construction in the (...)
Pandemics: Italy braced for unrest as Covid pass becomes mandatory for all workers Strictest vaccine mandate in Europe expected to bring fresh protests and leave some industries struggling with staff shortages
Italy is bracing itself for further unrest and labour market mayhem as the strictest vaccine mandate in Europe takes effect on Friday.
All workers will be obliged to (...)United States: Haitian migrants brutalised and deported at US-Mexico border United States president Joe Biden continues to show his government’s true face in the mass deportation of Haitian migrants.
In mid-September, nearly 15,000 Haitian migrants, peacefully camped under a bridge on the Mexico-Texas border, were rounded up by US border patrol agents on horseback, (...)United Nations OHCHR: Honour slain French teacher Samuel Paty by defending rights, defying fundamentalism – UN experts GENEVA (15 October 2021) – On the first anniversary of the murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty, UN experts paid tribute to his commitment to teaching human rights values and said the best way to honour him is to defy fundamentalism and defend human rights.
Mr. Paty was beheaded by an (...)Explainer : what exactly is the Quad (Australia, India, Japan and the US) and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit ? On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit.
Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the attendees are slated to discuss a series of big issues, from COVID-19 to cybersecurity, but China will dominate the conversation.
So, (...)United States – Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike? Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobsgrowth and fretted that“hiring challenges that have bedeviled employers all year won’t be quickly resolved,” and “rising wages could add to concerns about (...)
Die Linke’s Defeat Is a Dire Warning for the Left In September’s German election, the socialist Die Linke party slumped to under 5 percent support. If the Left is to recover, it needs to show that it’s still on the side of disenfranchised working-class voters.
There’s no sense putting lipstick on a pig: the German federal election, in which the (...)Philippines: How to make a damning documentary about a world-class liar The Kingmaker director Lauren Greenfield talks about her revealing Imelda Marcos documentary.
Lauren Greenfield has built a career partly on chronicling excess. In films like The Queen of Versailles (2012) and Generation Wealth (2018), the documentarian explores the fabulous, over-the-top (...)Biden Focuses U.S. Foreign Policy on Challenging China President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America’s two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter. With the world’s second largest economy, still growing phenomenally at almost 8 percent per year, with it’s multi-trillion dollar (...)
After 20 years, occupation has failed Afghanistan – but our struggle for freedom continues Commentary [Il Manifesto]. The only way to save Afghanistan is solidarity of the progressive, democratic and secular forces. If we want an independent, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan in which men and women have equal rights based on democracy, people need strong solidarity to be free (...)
Russian Revolution – Beyond Kronstadt. “Learning from accomplishments, mistakes and tragedies” One must go beyond Kronstadt to understand Kronstadt. One must grasp, first of all, the struggle for human liberation and the hope of Communism.i
From revolutionary Russia in October 1917, John Reed, sent a cable back to his socialist comrades in the United States: “The rank and file of the (...)Colonialism: France holds on to its island pearls in the South Pacific The strategic interests of Australia, France and its South Pacific dependencies are not necessarily aligned, Nic Maclellan argues.
The recent visit to Australia and New Caledonia by French President Emmanuel Macron highlights France’s economic and strategic interests in the Pacific islands. The (...)Asian Geopolitics - What Does India Get Out of Being Part of ‘The Quad’? The recent Quad leaders meeting in the White House on September 24 appears to have shifted focus away from its original framing as a security dialogue between four countries, the United States, India, Japan and Australia. Instead, the United States seems to be moving much closer to Australia as (...)
Why we must not allow COVID to become endemic in New Zealand As New Zealand switches from elimination to suppression, those who argue that COVID-19 will become endemic and part of our lives either do not understand or ignore what this would actually mean.
Elimination has always been a tricky word because it implies eradication. But we have only ever (...)US: Columbus and the Lens of History For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature an excerpt from Chapter One of A People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn describes why he tells the story of Columbus’s arrival “from the viewpoint of the Arawaks” and “the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in (...)
Covid-19 - Vaccine apartheid, a strategy of social murder The organisation of our economies has driven two of the biggest global crises the world faces: pandemics, of which Covid-19 will not be the last, and the climate and ecological breakdown. On top of actual infections and deaths experienced by families, Covid-19 is also affecting every person and (...)
What’s left of communism in China? Capitalists, once detested, are now welcomed with open arms into the Chinese Communist Party — as long as they pledge allegiance to an institution which now has more professionals than workers.
Has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 100 this year, become capitalist? Since the introduction of (...)For African nations, capital punishment is a grim colonial legacy that lingers on On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the tide is turning in west Africa against this tool of colonial repression and racism
In July, Sierra Leone became the 23rd African country to abolish the death penalty. Although its use across the continent has dwindled – thanks to concerted efforts (...)India: K. Balagopal: An Inspiring Example of ‘Living Knowledge’ With characteristic fearlessness, Balagopal speaks truth not only to power but also to his own friends.
The following is Jean Dreze’s foreword to K. Balagopal’s book Probings in the Political Economy of Agrarian Classes. Excerpted with permission.
Life was pretty quiet at the Indian Statistical (...)Capitalism – Why it’s high time to move on from ‘just-in-time’ supply chains This logistical model is the engine of breakneck capitalism. But its fragility is now being exposed.
A price shock on the global natural gas markets brings down several small energy providers, leaving customers without heating and facing rising fuel prices. A fire knocks out the huge cable (...)
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