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Capire talked to Yildiz Temürtürkan, international coordinator of the World March of Women, about the movement’s history and challenges
The World March of Women is a feminist, internationalist, anticapitalist, and anticolonial movement organized from local coordinations in 51 countries and (...)
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Boris Johnson was urged to support efforts to suspend intellectual property rules that stop lower-income nations from manufacturing vaccines, tests, and treatments. Photograph: (...)Frontier Fridays: The Top Stories in Myanmar this Week Welcome to Frontier Fridays. This week the junta announced a new cybersecurity law with many troubling elements, a third gas company pulled out of Myanmar dealing another financial blow to the junta, Hun Sen spoke to Min Aung Hlaing about involvement in future ASEAN summits, and videos of UWSA (...)
Ignorance, denial and insurgency in Mozambique A new and different state is necessary to manage the complex problems in the region, but is it possible under the current regime that has fed the conflict?
It’s been four years now since a small group of armed men targeted a police post in Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique, a small act (...)Protests flare across Poland after death of young mother denied an abortion Family of Agnieszka T say they want to ‘save other women in Poland from a similar fate’, as case met with anger over restrictive termination laws
Protests are under way across Poland after the death of a 37-year-old woman this week who was refused an abortion, a year since the country introduced (...)Pakistan: RUDA project illegal, court rules Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) welcomes the decision of Lahore High court declaring RUDA project illegal.
“It is a historic verdict which will go a long way in curbing catastrophic developmental projects in future” general secretary of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, Farooq Tariq said (...)Fascism and racism in the Spanish State Just like the rest of Europe and the world in general, the far right is gaining ground in both institutional and ideological terrains. By Steve Cedar.
The Spanish State is no exception, and the major force of the far-right that has emerged in recent years is Vox, an extreme right-wing populist (...)Fascist ideas on the rise in Italy In this piece by Dave Kellaway we conclude our look at fascist currents in France, Spain and Italy. Two recent events in Italy show fascist groups are on the rise. In the photo above you see the funeral of a fascist woman called Alessia Augello on 10 January 2022. Her coffin is draped with a (...)
War Crisis Over Ukraine: What’s the Deal? The following notes are a followup to the previous post Ukraine Crisis in Imperial Context . The author claims no special political or scholarly expertise on Ukraine. I’m simply trying to pursue the logic of the situation to the two possible conclusions, negotiated settlement or “Euromageddon.” (...)
United States: Margaret Jordan, presente! Margaret Jordan, a founding member of Solidarity, died early January 3rd. She is survived by her partner, Mike Parker, and her daughter, Johanna Parker.
Women Against Racism protest, Detroit, late 1970s
Margaret grew up in Berkeley, California and attended the university there. Her parents (...)United States - Mike Parker: Socialist, Labor Educator, Political Activist – 1940-2022 Mike Parker spent his entire adult life engaged in movements and organizations that he believed would advance the struggle for the creation of a democratic socialist society. In the 1960s he was first a leader of the Student Peace Union, then in California of the Free Speech Movement and the (...)
Australia’s systemic migrant labour exploitation exposed Much has been said about the rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Australia but the Migrant Workers Centre has data showing it is even worse.
The Melbourne-based non-profit organisation that advocates for migrant workers’ rights surveyed more than 700 migrant workers across many (...)Indonesia: Walhi urges Jokowi to also revoke permits of companies damaging the environment Jakarta — The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) supports the move by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to revoke some 2,078 mining business permits which are inactive or “lying idle”. This move however, is not enough.
Walhi Executive Director Zenzi Suhadi says that Widodo should not just (...)Sri Lanka: The Land Development Ordinance Amendment Bill: Granting women the equal right to become landless On 8 March 2021, Women’s Day, farmers in Polonnaruwa commenced a continuous satyagraha to demand solutions to the debt crisis plaguing farmers. Debt has depleted women of their moveable assets, including their savings. However, even the most indebted women have secure legal possession of their (...)
Indonesia: Father of missing activist dismayed by promotion of ex-Rose Team member as Jakarta commander Jakarta — Payan Siahaan, the father of Ucok Munandar Siahaan, a victim of the 1997-98 abduction of activists by the Rose Team (Tim Mawar), says he felt like his self-respect had been trampled on upon hearing the news that Major General Untung Budiharto had been promoted to Jakarta military (...)
Indonesia: 50% of national strategic project land in 2021 originated from agrarian conflicts: KPA Jakarta — The Agrarian Reform Consortium (KPA) has revealed that throughout 2021 almost 50 percent of land procured by the government for national strategic projects (PSN) originated from agrarian conflicts.
The KPA says that agrarian conflicts in the infrastructure and property sector as a (...)Were the Kazakhstani protests predictable? The recent violent protests in Kazakhstan are still reverberating, despite the Russian-led intervention force’s recent withdrawal. It is now evident that they were not a singular unified phenomenon. Rather they were a cascade of entwined events, beginning with regional grassroots protests, then (...)
All power to Sudan’s resistance committees? In Sudan’s revolution over 5,000 resistance committees mobilise opposition to the generals and step in to meet people’s everyday needs. Anne Alexander asks if the grassroots bodies could become alternative organs of political power to the present capitalist state
Sudan’s “endless revolution” (...)In Sudan’s new revolt, women and youth will not settle for less than full civilian rule The Sudanese people have made up their mind to defy the 25 October coup, and there is no way back
Sudan’s coup on 25 October was both highly anticipated and inevitable. For three months, tension between the civilian and military partners that had ruled Sudan since the 2019 powersharing deal had (...)Sudan’s revolution enters its second phase: disrupting the state Resistance committees are mobilising at grassroots level to bring about a fundamental transformation of the state
A few hours after the military coup in Sudan on 25 October 2021, its leader, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, appeared on television to announce the dissolution of the Sovereign Council, (...)
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