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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Serbia: March from the Drina Demands European Commission Reject Jadar Project Under Critical Raw Materials Act “We are challenging the EU-level political decision and will continue legal action if Jadar receives strategic status. In Serbia, the Jadar project proposal’s deficiencies provide strong legal arguments against issuing any environmental permits”, activists state.
The Serbian collective March (…)India: Backstory 2024: They were bigoted gaurakshaks, but they were good to me The cognitive dissonance of being able to see the humanity in hateful people.
“I’m sure you don’t actually mean that,” I told Sonu Jat, slightly bewildered. “You are a good, decent person.”
Jat had just told me, in a rare, unguarded moment, that he would be ready to kill anyone who (…)Thailand’s deinstitutionalised democracy movement Throughout the decades of alternation between military rule and circumscribed democracy, one priority of Thailand’s establishment has always sought to undermine the organisational strength and coherence of reformist movements and parties. Weak party infrastructures, lack of access to state (…)
2024 in Review: Philippine workers caught between economic difficulties and political intramurals Last year, workers in Philippines faced severe challenges in their wages, benefits and working conditions as they were caught in the vise of economic difficulties brought about by the cost-of-living crisis and escalating intramurals between the two leading political dynasties in the country. (…)
Sri Lanka: Exclusion of women from National Labour Advisory Council comes under fire The exclusion of women from the tripartite National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) has come under fire by 150 activist individuals and 55 organisations.
In a statement they said that the Minister of Labour has taken the extraordinary step to remove the only woman on the NLAC which consists of (…)Sri Lanka’s left government can’t pick and chose labour representatives in tripartite I have not said anything about this issue in public. But sometimes silence is taken as weakness by those who seek to exploit.
I am always glad that the Textile Garments and Clothing Workers Union and Dabindu Collective has been selected to the NLAC despite the questionable and non-transparent (…)Holcim Philippines against cement workers (Mindanao): End the lockout! Support the workers just demands! We, the different human rights and organizations of agricultural workers and sectors in Mindanao firmly stand in solidarity with the deprived and exploited workers of the Holcim Philippines Incorporated Lugait, Misamis Oriental Mindanao Plant. We call on Holcim Philippines Incorporated to listen (…)
Russia: Overcoming Military Bloc Rivalry in Europe [This appears to be a major analytical report presented at a conference in Berlin on 30 November 2024, organised by the Institute for Global Reconstitution and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The conference brought together left-wing parties from Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, Switzerland and Russian (…)
’I Guess Everything Is Allowed’: How the Systematic Eviction of Israel’s Bedouin Works The Netanyahu government, which has already demolished Bedouin villages, has crafted a plan to evict thousands into trailer homes
The Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah, in November 2023.Credit: Elyihau Hershkovitz / Photo editing: Roni Nova
As 2024 came to a close, the anxiety in the Bedouin (…)Russia: Rainbow Extremism Why has pressure on LGBT+ people in Russia increased to frightening proportions since the full-scale invasion into Ukraine? How are people fighting back against repression? Feminist and LGBT+ activist Liliya Vezhevatova on the predicament of the community against the backdrop of rising (…)
Sri Lanka: Rescued Rohingya refugees in limbo after being turned back halfway to detention The unpreparedness of the Sri Lanka government in dealing with issues having international ramifications has been exposed with their handling of the Rohingya Muslim refugees who were rescued by war-affected Tamil fishermen off the coast of Mullaitivu.
Such unpreparedness came to light when the (…)Taiwan: What Do the Three Bills Pushed Through Legislature by the KMT Last Week Mean for Taiwan? THREE CONTROVERSIAL BILLS were forced through the legislature by the KMT last week, with all three bills completing their third reading in the legislature.
The means by which the KMT did so led to significant public outrage, seeing as the KMT physically prevented DPP legislators from being (…)Ukraine: Life under Russian occupation Two new pieces of research from the Luhansk Regional Human Rights Centre Alterpravo paint a grim picture in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.
Forced Reality is the first in a series of planned analytical papers covering the lives of people in the temporarily occupied territories. (…)Indonesia: Censorship of artistic works usually only occurs under authoritarian regimes says Amnesty Jakarta — Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid regrets the postponement of Yos Suprapto’s painting exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia.
Moreover, he said, the postponement of the exhibition was due to five paintings by Suprapto which were considered (…)Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65
Palestinians hold a funeral for people killed by Israeli airstrikes at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, in Deir al-Balah. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock
Research published in the (…)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 (…)
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