Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Dear sisters,
On Olympics Day, June 23, we will organize a rally in Tokyo to resist the violence of the Olympic Games. We call for sisters around the world to send us (ajwrc ajwrc.org) your solidarity messages, as well as your stories, experiences and analysis on what sport mega-events would (...)
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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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Call for feminist solidarity messages against Tokyo Olympic Games! Birmanie/Myanmar – ‘Our revolution is starting’ : Urban guerrillas prepare to step up killings, bombings Small, independent groups are waging guerrilla warfare on the streets in an effort to undermine the military regime but the rising violence has some Yangon residents worried for their safety.
In the immediate aftermath of the February 1 coup, Ko Min Wai was a staunch supporter of peaceful (...)Myanmar: New Solidarities Myanmar’s Spring Revolution is an inflection point in the country’s history. The old forces of domination and repression are still present, but it is providing new fissures, solidarities and potential for progressive change.
The junta’s military continues to wage war against the people of (...)Philippines: Statement of Loyukan on the Extension of the Bangsamoro Transition Process It has been almost three years since the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), a manifestation of the mutual desire of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to forge lasting and inclusive peace.
Recently, several bills have (...)Factory workers making goods for the west bear brunt of virus surge in south-east Asia Migrant labourers tell of being forced to isolate in brutal conditions as Covid wave grips region
It was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, heard a small group of their colleagues had tested positive for Covid-19. It soon became clear the (...)Myanmar-Birmanie. Le gouvernement chinois se rapproche de la junte. Le GUN réaffirme sa position sur les Rohingyas La lettre de Frontier Fridays indique que la Chine a laissé transparaître qu’elle se rapprochait de la dictature militaire ; que Aung San Suu Kyi a fait l’objet d’une nouvelle accusation de corruption alors qu’elle s’apprête à être jugée pour d’autres chefs d’accusation ; qu’un un avion militaire s’est (...)
News from Kayah, Chin, Karen, Arakan States and Sagaing Region Kayah State
Regime Destroys Food and Medicine for Refugees in Southeastern Myanmar
Myanmar junta troops destroyed supplies of rice and medicine intended for over 3,000 internally displaced people (IDP’s) in Pekon, southern Shan State, who were forced to flee their homes after intense fighting (...)Chinese Foreign Minister Assures Myanmar Junta It Has Beijing’s Support China’s Foreign Minister told his Myanmar counterpart on Tuesday that Beijing is ready to work with his country, as China’s policy toward its neighbor is “not affected by changes to Myanmar’s domestic and external situation”. The pair spoke on the sidelines of this week’s ASEAN-China Foreign (...)
US Sanctions on Myanmar Put International Banks in the Spotlight Within a few days of the Feb. 1 coup, attention focused on pressuring the military coup-makers by blocking the military’s access to hard currency. There was a flurry of news about the US freezing Myanmar’s account at the Federal Reserve and Singapore’s banking authority stating that its checks had (...)
Why Biden Might not be Able to Extricate the US from its Middle East Quagmire Biden has promised an end to the endless wars. But such promises are not easy to keep. [This is the first of two articles on the legacy of Osama bin Laden.].
Next September, when the last C-130 cargo aircraft and Chinook transport helicopters take off from the infamous Bagram Air Force Base in (...)EU: Perspectives on the Maghreb Free trade agreements will do little to alleviate the region’s economic and demographic crisis
Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia have one thing in common: people, especially the young people, just want to leave. Unlike what is often portrayed in our media, the three countries of the Maghreb are not (...)Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany Aufstehen’s leaders insisted that their movement was not defined by its opposition to migrants. But they consistently cast migrants as either pawns in the game of finance capital or as the phony poster children of misguided urban idealists.
In 2016, a dramaturge, a career politician, and a (...)Rural Poverty Drives Child Labor in Laos Despite State Laws Prohibiting The Practice Ethnic minority families can’t afford school and make kids toil in fields or watch over younger siblings.
Child labor remains widespread in Laos, particularly in ethnic minority communities in rural areas where minors forego schooling to perform agricultural work or stay at home taking care of (...)Inside The German Far-Right Party’s Effort To Normalize Nationalism Again With new messaging emphasizing a return to normal, Germany’s AfD party is seeking to bring nationalism back into the center of German politics.
For this year’s federal election, the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has come up with a campaign that kills three birds with one (...)West Philippine Sea and beyond: China, US must both stop destabilization “China’s seizure of maritime formations that are within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone in the West Philippine Sea is illegal and should stop. (...) We cannot, however, be narrow-minded and myopic and single out China for condemnation and limit our demand to asking it to “leave” (...)
Covid-19 (United States): Black and Latino communities are left behind in Covid-19 vaccination efforts Although a few states have seen large increases in vaccination rates among Black and Latino Americans, most are still trailing behind.
When vaccines became increasingly available throughout America, US health officials moved quickly to try to convince large numbers of Americans to get (...)Abolish Frontex, end the EU border regime – “The policies of Fortress Europe have killed over 40,555 people since 1993” To: EU member states governments, the European Commission, European Council, Council of the EU, European Parliament and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex)
Over 740 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, looking for a place of safety. The EU’s (...)Palestine/Israel: Friedman’s Last Gasp – “The Western model of ‘peace-making’ was always about preserving Jewish supremacy” Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare.
It seems that every liberal newspaper needs a Thomas Friedman – the UK’s (...)United States – Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Convention Primer: 2021 Edition Here we are again: DSA convention time. As I did in 2019, I’ll go through the basics of the convention and then give an overview of the proposals and items for consideration.
Every two years, the Democratic Socialists of America convene for a national convention. The convention will elect a new (...)What’s Worse Than Climate Catastrophe? Climate Catastrophe Plus Fascism A conversation with Andreas Malm about his new book, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Andreas Malm, a historian and scholar of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, may be the hardest-working intellectual on the climate left. The author of 2016’s Fossil Capital, a (...)
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