Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
ESSF runs permanent solidarity campaigns focusing on four countries: Bangladesh (the movements associated with the farmers’ organizations BKF-BKS), Indonesia (the Free Women association Perempuan Mahardika), Pakistan (the Labor Education Foundation and the Crofter Foundation) and the Philippines (MiHands Coalition in Mindanao).
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Britain: Freedom and Covid This is a modified version of a talk Rowan Fortune given for ZeroCovid on the reactionary thought behind opposition to public health policies during the Coronavirus pandemic.
There are a heady mix of anti-vaccine claims linked to Covid-19. Some are startlingly improbable from a cursory glance, (...)‘The word feminism is still a trigger’: Russia’s feminists in their own words Four activists from the country’s regions explain how they’re trying to bring feminism to a wider audience
A new wave of feminist activism is spreading across Russia, breaking boundaries both online and off. These initiatives tackle all kinds of topics; some provide help for victims of domestic (...)The Ongoing Struggle for LGBTQ Equality in Vietnam LGBTQ rights in Vietnam have improved in recent years, but traditional social norms and stigmas still make life difficult for queer individuals in the country.
“Everyone push together, please! Make room for each other!” the organisers shout above the chatter of over a thousand people cramming (...)Philippine Foreign Policy Needs a Reboot Philippine foreign policy urgently requires a strategic reboot in response to the country’s changing external realities. The adversarial competition between the world’s core of imperialist great powers continues to roil and affect the global strategic environment. As an archipelagic state with a (...)
Around 30 Myanmar Junta Troops Killed in Sagaing – Junta Colonel Killed in Mandalay At least 30 junta troops were reportedly killed during two shootouts with civilian resistance forces in Kani and Yinmabin townships, Sagaing Region, on Tuesday, according to residents.
On Tuesday, around 1,000 civilian resistance fighters using homemade rifles attacked about 60 junta troops (...)Spanish State: Some Lessons of the Podemos experience Dave Kellaway looks back at the Pablo Iglesias era which found the Spanish left in the political ascendancy.
A month or so ago, Pablo Iglesias failed in his bid to push back the right wing ascendancy in the Madrid regional elections. The defeat turned into a personal turning point for him as (...)A giant leap for justice, ray of hope for victims of extra-jusdicial killings in the Philippines For those who took the path of the International Criminal Court, the judicial authorisation request of the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with an investigation is a “monumental step towards justice,” and a “ray of hope” for the families of victims of extrajudicial killings in the war on drugs. (...)
20 years of alterglobalism in Quebec: Review in 3 points April 2001. 60,000 people walked the streets of Quebec City to denounce the imposition of neoliberal globalization through the signing of free trade agreements by our governments behind closed doors. The gap between the worldview of the economic-political elites and that of the people, opened (...)
Burma/Myanmar: From civil disobedience to armed resistance - what new Burma can emerge from today’s challenges? In the aftermath of the military putsch of 1 February, a huge movement of civil disobedience prevented the junta from asserting its control over the country. However, it was able to redeploy its repressive arsenal to try to crush popular dissent. The army intervened throughout the country and (...)
Singapore: “A National Coming Out”: 10 Years Since Repeal 377A 10 years after an attempt to repeal an anti-gay law, Singapore’s LGBTQ activists are still seeking equality.
It’s been 10 years and Siew Kum Hong still remembers the walk from his seat to the Clerk of Parliament: “I was so worried I’d stumble and fall! I was relieved to get it done without messing (...)Myanmar: The UN’s refugee data shame ‘There is no way the personal data of nearly a million European people would ever be treated like this.’
I saw this coming, and I wish I had been wrong.
Back in 2017, I wrote here of the risks of the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, collecting biometric registration data from Rohingya refugees, (...)Report says soldiers shot three dead at Myanmar factory making US cowboy boots – “The workers simply wanted to be paid” A labour rights organisation says the soldiers also arrested 17 outside the shoe factory – for asking for wages
When a small group of employees gathered outside the Xing Jia shoe factory on Monday 15 March, it had been shut for a week and they’d been told it would stay that way for three months. (...)The Winner in France’s June 20 Regional Elections Was Abstention We often hear about discontented French voters turning to Marine Le Pen’s far right, but not about the tens of millions who’ve given up on voting at all. They were the key in yesterday’s regional elections — and they’re the ones the Left has to win.
This week’s French regional elections take place (...)Japan’s Student Movement and the Revolutionary Politics of 1968 Historians often neglect Japan’s New Left protest movement in the late 1960s, but it was one of the largest in any country. Radical student activists brought the university system to a halt — and changed the future of Japanese politics.
Global surveys that look at the protest movements of 1968 (...)Hong Kong must also pass its own security legislation to ‘plug loopholes,’ says security chief The process may include changes to the city’s Crimes Ordinance, Official Secrets Act and Societies Ordinance, says John Lee.
Hong Kong’s government is actively studying new legislation to plug “loopholes” in the existing national security law or even strengthen it, the city’s secretary chief has (...)Vaccine inequality in the Philippines: How the pandemic and vaccination schemes have exacerbated inequality A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines and recovery is still nowhere near in sight. The Department of Health (DoH) has noted that the total number of cases has surpassed 1.2 million, in a country of more than a 100 million (DoH, 28 May 2021). In an attempt to contain (...)
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily limps towards the end of an era as newsroom suffers exodus of staff Remaining journalists at the embattled daily tell HKFP that they will stay on until the bitter end as bosses at the newspaper prepare to make a last ditch attempt to have HK$18 million worth of assets seized by the authorities returned.
Hong Kong’s only pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, is (...)Call for free technology transfer to produce Covid vaccine The Progressive International has called for speeding up Covid vaccination by removing patents and transferring free-of-cost technology to produce vaccines across the world.
The call was made at an online summit of the forum that works to unite progressive forces across the world. The summit (...)Hong Kong protests: Civil Human Rights Front will not apply for permission to hold annual July 1 march for first time in 19 years July 1 march, timed to coincide with anniversary of city’s handover to China, has been a yearly event since 2003, when 500,000 people took to the streets Front has been responsible for some of Hong Kong’s largest protests, but its convenor was jailed for 18 months in May, and police are currently (...)
The Biden-Putin Meeting and Nuclear Weapons At their recent meeting, Biden and Putin agreed to set up discussions about controlling nuclear weapons.
Before looking at decisions the U.S. took in recent years that have increased the danger of nuclear war, it is useful to recall how the nuclear age began.
It was the U.S. that developed (...)
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