Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par ZHANG Yueran
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
Notwithstanding the ongoing political shenanigans by appointed agencies to shape final outcomes after the May 14 poll, Thailand has already been forever changed. The Move Forward Party’s (MFP) victory as the largest winning side, with 151 out of 500 parliamentary seats, is profound but not (...)
, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s economy is being transformed through a rapid process of financialisation. Such widespread financialisation facilitated infrastructure development, a real estate boom linked to urbanisation and expansion of credit leading to increasing indebtedness of the (...)
, by NUPL (Philippines)
Military, police and politicians should stop labelling civic activists as terrorists!
1. Concept
In an article published by the International Peace Observers network (IPON)”,” red tagging” or “red baiting”
“describes the practice of state actors to publicly and detractively classify (...)
, by DAVID Randy
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 (...)
, by PAK Mi-Hyang
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 (...)
, par Civil society groups
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 (...)
, by ALVAREZ Maximillian, PARK Ju-Hyun
In the face of widespread repression, South Korean workers are rising up for fair pay and labor protections.
Within the past two years, South Korea has seen major labor actions. Hundreds of thousands of workers have mobilized in response to multiple calls for general strikes, and the (...)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
Even more than in the case of his predecessors, the Modi government has sought to use foreign policy related initiatives for domestic purposes, namely to project himself as a world statesman and India under his reign as a growing and recognized world power, which it is not. Indeed, because of (...)
, by SPERBER Nathan
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words:
the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country’s whole way of doing business, the economic system that has (...)
, by KAUL Nitasha
The move to rename India as ‘Bharat’ is part of a push by the Hindu nationalist right to create an ideologically pure state that in reality never existed.
The invitations to a state dinner to mark India’s hosting of this year’s G20 came not, as you’d expect, from the office of the president (...)
, by HONG Yong-hui
On August 21, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reported that a rare document listing the names and ranks of members of the Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious wartime Unit 731 (the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army) had been discovered in Tokyo. It (...)
, by NAIR Subhas
Dear friends and supporters,
As some of you may have seen in the news this week, I have been sentenced to 6 weeks in jail for my Brownface response video response (made 4 years ago) and a couple of tweets calling out homophobia and systemic racism. I’m currently in the midst of appealing (...)
, by CAUSA
We, Citizens Against US Wars of Aggression (CAUSA), vehemently condemn the existential threat posed by US-warmongering in the Eastern Hemisphere and the canine devotion of the Philippine state to the whims of US hegemony. We decry the Marcos-Duterte administration’s intensification of its (...)
, by DHAR Sushovan, ROUSSET Pierre
Two years ago, Burma (Myanmar) saw a huge non-violent movement of civic disobedience in response to a military putsch. However, it was ultimately forced to engage in armed self-defense in the face of merciless repression. Was it any different in India? Was independence, the liberation from (...)
, by THIT Han
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, (...)
, by EWE Koh
Four years ago, Singaporean siblings Subhas and Preeti Nair packed their camera gear, headed to a popular hawker center in downtown Singapore, and shot a video that would become the talk of the town—and ultimately land Subhas with a jail sentence.
In the video, they rapped about racism in (...)
Indonesia’s press freedom index drops sharply, first decline in six years
A 2023 Press Freedom Index (IKP) survey conducted by the Press Council found a significant decline compared to 2022, with the IKP dropping to 71.57 from 77.87 in 2022. Press Council commissioner for data collection, (...)
, by TEERAKOWITKAJORN Kriangsak
May’s election in Thailand was a crushing defeat for its conservative bloc and a triumph for the progressive Move Forward Party. But the conservatives have used an undemocratic political framework to exclude the party and maintain their grip on power.
This year’s general election in Thailand (...)
, by MILLER Ian
On this day, 5 years ago, the Supreme Court of India read down the anti-sodomy provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
Revisiting from Dec 2018, Ian Miller on the limits of the Supreme Court decision that decriminalised same-sex acts in India:
On the limits of the Supreme (...)
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