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• Rural (Sri Lanka)

  Sri Lanka: Plantation workers being taken for a ride once again

  13 September, by KUMAR Vijaya

  Plantation workers are once again being taken for a ride. When Ranil Wickremesinghe announced on May Day a 1,700-rupee daily wage for plantation workers, one thought that these very productive workers are at last about to receive a somewhat reasonable wage. The companies through the Planters’ (…)

• Palestine & Israel

  Aysenur Ezgi Eygi | When the IDF Says ’Death to Inciters,’ That’s How an American Protester Gets Killed

  12 September, by LEVY Gideon

  The spot where Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed, in the West Bank, on Sunday.Credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters
  The IDF has returned to being the most moral army in the world. Only four days had passed since its soldiers killed American human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, before the intense (…)

• Political situation and debates (France)

  Michel Barnier, Prime Minister (France) - The Gravedigger

  12 septembre, par GODIN Romaric

  « The public rejected Macronism in the first round of the legislative elections, and the RN in the second. Now they are getting both. »
  When Michel Barnier’s appointment as Prime Minister was announced on 5 September, many French voters experienced two simultaneous sensations which say a lot (…)

• Foreign Policy, Military, International Solidarity (USA)

  Aysenur Ezgi Eygi - Hundreds gather on a Seattle beach to remember an American activist killed by the Israeli military

  12 September, by JONHSON Gene

  SEATTLE (AP) — For her 26^th birthday in July, human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi gathered friends for a bonfire at one of her favorite places, a sandy beach in Seattle where green-and-white ferries cruise across the dark, flat water and osprey fish overhead.
  On Wednesday night, hundreds (…)

• Women (Indonesia)

  “Why has Indonesia’s draft domestic workers bill never been passed?”

  11 September, by SAPTOHUTOMO Aryo Putranto

  Aryo Putranto Saptohutomo, Jakarta — In the midst of Jakarta’s hustle and bustle on Tuesday September 10, right in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Senayan, Central Jakarta, dozens of domestic workers (PRT) gathered to demand the enactment of the Draft Law on the (…)

• History (China)

  China: Made by the Revolution

  12 September, by ANDERSON Perry

  Zhou Enlai: A Life by Chen Jian. Harvard, 817 pp., £29.95, May, 978 0 674 65958 2
  Every modern revolution of significance, from 1789 to the present, has produced a diaspora. The exodus from Russia after the end of its ancien régime scattered minds of exceptional brilliance in the arts, (…)

• History: 1965 and after (Indonesia)

  Indonesian parliament revokes 1967 decree accusing founding president Sukarno of betraying county, supporting Communist Party

  9 September, by BALOWSKI James, Ihsanuddin, SUTRISNA Tria

  Tria Sutrisna, Ihsanuddin, Jakarta — The People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) has officially revoked Provisional People’s Consultative Assembly Decree (TAP MPRS) Number 33/1967 on the Revocation of Executive Powers from President Sukarno
  This was done by the handing over of an official (…)

• Political situation and debates (France)

  Government (France): Michel Barnier Is in Office, Marine Le Pen Will Hold Power

  6 September, by BRODER David

  Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.
  Michel Barnier during a speech at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, (…)

• Ecology (South Sudan)

  South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change?

  10 September, by LEVY Jacob, STEPHENS Liz

  Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and might never return.
  Enormous floods have once again engulfed much of South Sudan, as record water-levels in Lake Victoria flow downstream through the Nile. More than 700,000 people have been affected. Hundreds of thousands (…)

• Algeria

  The Algerian people reiterate their rejection of military rule

  10 September, by ACHCAR Gilbert

  Despite the confusion that accompanied the announcement of the recent presidential elections’ results in Algeria, one thing is clear and certain: the Algerian people overwhelmingly reject military rule...
  Despite the confusion that accompanied the announcement of the recent presidential (…)

• Political Situation

  Peace process (Philippines): On the ongoing talks, seriously…

  8 September, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  Overdue more than nine months after the breakthrough Oslo Joint Statement of 23 November 2023 between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) [led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and New People’s Army (…)

• History, society, culture (Philippines)

  Mindanao (Philippines). The Zamboanga Siege of 2013, Ten Years Hence: Continuing Questions of Justice and Peace [updated version]

  9 September, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  Ten years hence the September 9 to 28, 2013 Zamboanga Siege, the questions of justice and peace arising from and around it continue without both aspirations being fully or even satisfactorily achieved. On top of this, history of the Mindanao conflict seems to keep repeating itself, as if the key (…)

• Political Situation

  Philippines - Four Rebel Group Amnesties: Win Some, Lose Some [updated version]

  12 July, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  Four presidential amnesty Proclamations Nos. 403 (for the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa ng Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade), 404 (for the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front), 405 (for the Moro Islamic Liberation (…)

• The Left (Philippines)

  Bohol (Philippines): Hannah Jay Cesista - Winning or losing… the flower of our youth

  24 February, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr

  It is with particular sadness to note that a young lady lawyer, a compañera, Atty. Hannah Jay Cesista, who just passed the “best bar ever” in 2022, was among those killed in hostilities between the New People’s Army (NPA)-Bohol that she was part of and combined police-military units on 23 (…)

• USA

  United States: Harris Moves Right in Search of a Majority

  31 August, by LA BOTZ Dan

  Vice-President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee of an enthusiastic party, has had phenomenal initial success. Since entering the race on July 21, she and her running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have raised $540 million, organized Zoom calls involving hundreds of thousands of (…)

• Sri Lanka

  10 critical economic policy questions all Sri Lanka’s presidential candidates

  9 September, by Daily FT

  As Sri Lanka approaches a critical Presidential election that will shape the country’s future, Yukthi, a collective focused on debt justice and the economic challenges facing the nation’s working people has put forward 10 crucial questions to the Presidential candidates regarding their (…)

• Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka. Food insecurity increased in 2023, particularly in estate sector

  8 September, by KIRINDE Chandani

  Food insecurity at household level increased with income losses and food inflation following the economic crisis, with nearly one-fourth of the household’s food insecure during July–September 2023, a report by a parliamentary committee disclosed.
  During the third quarter in 2023, 24% of the (…)

• Mindanao (Philippines)

  Philippines: Rhetoric And Realities: How Does Official Development Assistance Impact Non-Moro Indigenous Peoples In The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao?

  29 August, by HELLER Isaak

  In 2018, the passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was a major milestone for peace building efforts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The BOL institutionalized Bangsamoro autonomy by creating the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as BARMM’s interim (…)

• Palestine & Israel

  To sacrifice or free the hostages ? Israeli protesters have chosen a side

  4 septembre, par RAPOPORT Meron

  Fearing for the remaining captives, the mass rallies that erupted across Israel were essentially demanding an end to the war — and Netanyahu knows it.
  For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the mass protests that erupted across Israel on Sunday were all about overthrowing him and his (…)

• Palestine & Israel

  Hersh is gone, sacrificed on the altar of Israel’s ‘total victory’

  2 September, by NOY Orly

  The parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin pleaded for their son’s release. But Netanyahu chose to cling to power and spill rivers of blood in Gaza instead.
  People gather in memory of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem, September 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
  It (…)