Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Our association carries out permanent solidarity campaigns for five countries in South and South-East Asia, i.e. in one of the regions of the world most affected by a “polycrisis” that is getting worse and worse. There is no longer just the addition of multiple crises - climatic and ecological, health, socio-economic, political and geostrategic - each one already fraught with devastating consequences: they feed each other, constituting, by dint of interactions, a formidable global crisis whose effects are felt from the north to the south and from the east to the west of our planet. The poor, the marginalised, the workers are paying its price all over the world - a price which means, where our Asian partners are active, that successive layers of the population are plunging into great poverty, destitution and even famine.
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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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The Revolutionary Front for an (...)Why tracking anti-LGBT war crimes in Ukraine is so difficult Victims are reluctant to report sexual violence and fear homophobia from Ukrainian authorities
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Excellencies,
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Britain: What kind of trade unions do we need? This article, by Terry Conway, discusses the recent surge in industrial action in Britain, led by multiple trade unions, in response to a substantial decline in living standards, and analyses the opportunities, challenges, and obstacles faced by these movements in their fight for better pay and (...)
Call for support to the cyclone Mocha affected people in Bangladesh Bangladesh, a seriously climate affected country, was hit by cyclone Mocha on 14 May 2023.
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Remarks at the May 19 United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Myanmar On May 19, 2023, as a civil society member, Wai Wai Nu spoke at the United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Myanmar before Member States of the Council, ASEAN, ASEAN Dialogue Partners, and bordering countries.
I thank the United Kingdom for convening this Arria-Formula (...)Sri Lanka: Impunity, violence, and the politics of representation Shehan Karunatilaka. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Gurugram, Haryana: Penguin Books, 2022 – Reviewed by Harshana Rambukwella
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Ukrainian manufacturers can and should lead reconstruction efforts in the country when Russia’s war ends, new research has concluded.
A white paper published by (...)Tobias Drevland Lund (Red Party, Norway): ‘We need a Nordic Defence Alliance that can stake out a third position between Russia and the US’ Tobias Drevland Lund, an MP for Norway’s radical left party Rødt (Red Party) speaks to Federico Fuentes about the party’s rise, Norwegian politics and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Lund represents the electoral district of Telemark in Norway’s Storting (parliament) and sits on the Nordic Council, an (...)
Greece: right-wing landslide, left-wing collapse. Surprise or predicted electoral result? How can we explain the victory, or rather triumph, of the Greek right and the defeat, or rather collapse, of the Syriza Left in the May 21 elections? How do we explain the fact that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy (ND) party more than doubled (41%) Syriza’s score (20%)? And how (...)
Utility bill hike set to compound ordinary Ukrainians’ economic pain Ukraine’s economy has taken a battering from Russia’s invasion, with unemployment high and consumer debt soaring
A perfect storm of job losses, high prices and soaring utility bills caused largely by Russia’s invasion has left millions of ordinary Ukrainians struggling to get by.
Many have (...)Boris Kagarlitsky (Russia): A plea to my Western progressive friends — Stop helping Putin with your conciliatory and ambiguous statements A long-retired Russian military man was discussing current events by phone with a former colleague living in Ukraine. Both resented the war between the two recently fraternal countries and expressed the hope that this madness would soon end. A few days later, representatives of the special (...)
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