Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
We are launching our annual appeal to fund our permanent Asia Solidarity Fund for the year 2025. We are in the midst of a deadly spiral of worsening crises - from the international ‘reactionary acceleration’ symbolised by the election of Donald Trump to global warming spiralling out of control. Maintaining solidarity, in all its forms, is a matter of the utmost urgency. Our association is committed to ensuring the continuity of this solidarity, including financial one, with the movements whose work we support in four Asian countries, for the help they provide to populations deeply affected by disasters of human or natural origin.
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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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Iran : Free Syndicate Members Ebrahim Madadi, Davood Razavi, and Labour Activists Reyhaneh Ansarinejad and Anisha Asadollahi! The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company demands the unconditional release of all imprisoned labour, teacher, student, and civil rights activists in Iran. The Syndicate specifically calls for the immediate release of its two imprisoned members, Ebrahim Madadi and Davood Razavi, (…)
Trump’s Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China When Donald Trump first offered to buy Greenland in 2019, he was widely ridiculed and nothing much came of it, apart from a cancelled state visit to Denmark. Fast forward six years and Trump’s renewed “bid” for the world’s largest island is back on the table.
And with renewed vigour at that. (…)United States: Understanding Trump’s Reelection Ignoring the advice of luminaries ranging from Sun Tzu, the Chinese general and philosopher to Star Trek’s Captain Kirk who recommended going on the offensive as the best defense, Kamala Harris ran a presidential campaign that was overwhelmingly defensive if not altogether in flight from the (…)
Syria: After Assad Falls, Campists Sing Same Song Reactions to the fall of the Assad regime - Unfortunately, the U.S. Left has been dominated by campist thinking, opposing the U.S. “camp” and then supporting the other camps, i.e. any state or movement that was in the bad graces of the U.S. empire. Call it a stunted, deformed anti-imperialism or (…)
Sri Lanka: Thousands in remand tormented in deplorable jails bursting at the seams Sri Lanka’s prisons are holding more than double the number of prisoners they have capacity for and as a result prisoners are suffering under atrocious conditions. The vast majority are remand prisoners, also known as pre-trial detainees. They are unconvicted, not yet found guilty, but forced to (…)
Sri Lanka. May Wickramasuriya: A struggle for the rights of working class women “She enjoyed the rare privilege of living a meaningful life through her dedication to organising the working class for the liberation of the working class and humanity,” remarked Dan Gallin, a prominent intellectual in the international trade union movement and a former President of the Global (…)
Sri Lanka: Economic crisis and household debt in the north The current economic crisis cannot be resolved by households or social institutions alone, and loans are not the solution. The Government should introduce livelihood and income stabilisation programs to help people escape the debt trap. It should also leverage cooperatives to create markets and (…)
“Sri Lanka’s Forgotten Martyrs: Christian Clergy Murdered and Disappeared (1983-2009)” "For over three decades, Sri Lanka’s Catholic clergy risked—and lost—their lives defending the oppressed. From the bloody ethnic riots of 1983 to the final days of the civil war in 2009, priests and nuns who spoke against human rights violations faced brutal consequences. Through previously (…)
Editorial | Does Anyone in Israel Care About the Blood of Palestinian Children? The Israel Defense Forces killed two boys Wednesday, ages 8 and 10, in a drone strike in the Palestinian village of Tammun, near Nablus. This strike was not a response to the October 7 Hamas attack, which has served as a pretext for Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza ever since. Rather, it was (…)
Editorial | Israel Wants to Turn the West Bank Into Rubble, Just Like Gaza It turns out that some people believe “we are living in an era of miracles” regarding not only to Gaza, but also the West Bank. While most Israelis view October 7 as the greatest disaster in the country’s history, some on the right see in it an opportunity, and even the beginning of the (…)
“Artificially Unintelligent Translation and the Cost of Labour” Artificial intelligence in Croatia remains a thing of the future, overshadowed by stagnation and declining translation prices. Results from the European Language Industry Survey show that fear of artificial intelligence goes hand in hand with such trends, due to which freelance translators (…)
Rural Indonesian women condemned for short ‘pleasure marriages’ with tourists for US$500 Some of country’s poorest young women have dozens of sex-and-chores-for-cash quickie weddings with rich tourists
Poor young women in Indonesian villages are becoming temporary wives for male tourists in exchange for a bride price leading to online condemnation of the practice.
Puncak, in the (…)‘We Can!’ – a new Green-Left coalition takes over Croatia’s capital But, as this short history of Možemo! shows, the platform is far from being a new kid on the block
The residents of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, voted for change in May, turning away from a regime that had held power since 2000, whose mayor had been deeply entangled in corruption and (…)Gaza, West Bank: The Palestinian Authority and the Completion of the Siege The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority has decided to complement the onslaught launched by the Zionist armed forces in the West Bank in parallel with their invasion of the Gaza Strip...
It was only natural for the genocidal war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip, in the wake of the (…)Mozemo! Dashes Hopes of Croatian Leftist Alliance Experts are divided over whether the party’s decision to run in the next elections alone will help or hinder the left’s chances of toppling the ruling conservatives.
There will be no left-wing pre-election coalition in Croatia to counter the main ruling Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.
This (…)Papua: Government not seen as serious about resolving armed conflict in Papua Theo Kelen, Jayapura — The Indonesian government is considered to not be serious about resolving the armed conflict in Papua. An approach of peaceful dialogue must continue to be encouraged as an effort to resolve the conflict in Papua, but the government has ignored this.
Commission for (…)Sri Lanka: Central Bank, NGO Secretariat and weaponisation of Financial Action Task Force As FATF has pointed out, blanket and arbitrary measures can drive financial flows underground, thereby undermining the entire purpose of the FATF standards and instead increase terror financing risks
"Two entities play a visible and critical role in State attempts to place repressive controls (…)Jimmy Carter: the False Savior A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights. The big business agenda during his term in (…)
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: “For the first time, we have a horizon in Syria” For this writer, one of Syria’s leading intellectual opponents of the Assad regime, the Syrian people are experiencing a moment comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Speaking about the return to his homeland, justice, and reconstruction, this exiled thinker reveals his fears and hopes. (…)
Georgia: Uprising for democracy in the Caucasus Tempest’s Ashley Smith and Posle Media’s Ilya Budraitskis interview Georgian activists and scholars Ia Eradze, Luka Nakhutsrishvili and Lela Rekhviashvili about the roots of the uprising, its trajectory, and Georgia’s place in global capitalism and the imperialist order.
The country of (…)
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