Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BELLO Walden
The real threat is the repression of migrant communities by national security states with the backing of a significant segment of the majority population mobilized by right wing forces.
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket shootings, security forces in Belgium launched a (…)
, by CHUANG Ya-Han
Labor Politics and Organizing Strategies in Immigrant-Owned SMEs: The Case of the Confédération Générale du Travail and Chinese Migrant Workers in France
by Ya-Han Chuang
Abstract
This article focuses on the evolution of the interaction between Chinese migrant workers in France and the (…)
, by FARRIS Sara
In 1844, Karl Marx published a short but dense text entitled “On the Jewish Question”. It was a critical review of two essays by the-then famous philosopher Bruno Bauer, who had argued against equal rights for Jews if granted on religious grounds. If Jews wanted to be considered full citizens - (…)
, by VAROUFÁKIS Yanis
Sick Predators: How a dying regime preyed upon women with HIV, invested in wholesale racism, and endangered public health.
This is my fifth article for the Witte de With Review (an initiative of Rotterdam-based Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art). It is a chilling tale best read in (…)
, by Reuters
Seven workers die in a makeshift dormitory in Prato, noted for garment firms operating on the fringe of legality.
At least seven people died and three were injured when a clothing factory in an industrial zone in the Italian town of Prato burned down on Sunday, killing workers trapped in an (…)
Bulgaria: ‘Inhuman conditions’ spark protest at refugee camp
19 November 2013, 00:00 UTC
Urgent action is needed from the Bulgarian authorities to improve conditions at an emergency accommodation centre for asylum seekers near the Turkish border, Amnesty International said after scores of (…)
, by YOUNGE Gary
Europe’s panic is about race and class, not child abduction.
On October 21 in Dublin, an anonymous Facebook poster tipped off a news channel about a blond-haired, blue-eyed child living with a dark-skinned Roma family. The journalists alerted the police, who raided the home and took the (…)
, by Frontexit
Six days after the “tragedy of Lampedusa”, while the search for the shipwrecked continues and the number of recovered bodies rises daily, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, is sending out a misleading message: the solution to prevent the deaths at sea would be to (…)
, by ŽIŽEK Slavoj
Imagine a scene from a dystopian movie that depicts our society in the near future. Uniformed guards patrol half-empty downtown streets at night, on the prowl for immigrants, criminals and vagrants. Those they find are brutalised. What seems like a fanciful Hollywood image is a reality in (…)
, by YOUNGE Gary
How’s this for the fashion police? In late May, in a suburb of Brussels, a Muslim woman was arrested for wearing a niqab—the garment worn by a tiny proportion of Muslim women that covers all of the face but the eyes. In the subsequent melee, the woman broke an officer’s nose while being frisked. (…)
, by HARDING Jeremy
A young, personable man who speaks fair English, Hamraz had been in Dunkirk for about a month when we met. He was a member of the Afghan National Army, from the district of Azra, south-east of Kabul. Early in 2011, going home on leave, he was called to account by local Taliban as a collaborator (…)
, by BALIBAR Etienne, BRIDENTHAL Renate, CHOMSKY Noam, HARNECKER Marta, LAIBMAN David, LEBOWITZ Michael A., McLAREN Peter, PERELMAN Michael, WALLERSTEIN Immanuel
Migrant workers come to developed countries hoping to survive, or escape from political and social persecution, but they fall prey to wild exploitation, and today they are the first to experience the consequences of the current economic and social crisis.
The 300 hundred migrant workers who (…)
, by Parliamentarians
We express our concern for the health and life of the 300 immigrants that are on a hunger strike since the 25th of January, in Athens and Thessaloniki.
They are immigrants that live and work for many years in Greece and they request equal rights with the Greek and European workers.
We (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Announcement to the society
We, the 300 migrants hunger strikers, we demand legalization of all migrants living and working in Greece and we declare the following:
– We, 300, took the initiative for that kind of struggle, without the intervention of political parties, organizations (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
On Tuesday 25 of January the historical building of the Law school in Athens that is out of use at the moment- turned to be the place of a fair and democratic struggle; a place, where a lot of social struggles had taken place in the past, had the opportunity to host the struggle of 250 out of (…)
, by GROSSMAN Victor
It’s those foreigners again! In June and July, during the World Cup, Germans cheered their soccer team’s every skilled pass, every goal — and seemed proud that so many of its players had immigrant backgrounds, from Tunisia, Nigeria, Brazil, Spain, Yugoslavia, Ghana, Poland, and Turkey. Hurrah! (…)
, by FAROOQ Adnan, ROALD Anne-Sofie
Interview published in the Sweden based left Pakistani Online magazine “Viewpoint”.
Renowned historian of religions, Anne-Sofie Roald is a professor at the University of Malmö, Sweden; program director at Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway, and author of Women in Islam: The Western (…)
, by VINOCUR John
PARIS — Which politician, President Nicolas Sarkozy, or Jean-Marie Le Pen, the voice of rightist extremism here for more than a generation, said the following about the role of immigrants, particularly Muslims, in their country’s future?
Newcomers must avoid “self-designated victimization.” (…)
, by The New York Times
France has no equivalent to the 14th Amendment, but the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who likes to be known as Sarko the American, also is fanning dangerous anti-immigrant passions for short-term political gain.
Last week, he proposed stripping foreign-born French citizens of their (…)
, by SALTMARSH Matthew
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the expulsion of illegal Roma and itinerant immigrants and the dismantlement of their camps in a move that has been labeled by human rights groups as xenophobic and criticized by his political opponents.
After a meeting late Wednesday, Mr. Sarkozy (…)
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