Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
After intense and prolonged negotiations and bargaining, the European Union and Turkey reached an agreement on 7th March in Brussels on a solution to cope with the refugee “crisis” and massive influx of Syrians into European countries. As far as we know, Turkey asked for another 3 billion euros (…)
Esquerda.net/English translated Catarina Martins’ intervention in the debate with the Prime Minister to prepare for the European Council, on March 16th 2016.
Catarina Martins said in her intervention that “the deal with Turkey is the latest and most frightening step in this route”. The leader (…)
This report was made to the February/March 2016 meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The list of demands with which it ends were incorporated into the statement adopted at that meeting: “Internationalism from below against Fortress Europe” .
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Petition: European Intellectuals Call for Solidarity with Refugees.
We citizens of the Member States of the European Union, of the Schengen Area, the Balkans, of the Mediterranean, and of the Middle East as well as citizens of other countries in the world, who share our concerns, are (…)
This statement was adopted unanimously at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International in Amsterdam on 1st March 2016.
A million people have arrived at European borders in the past year, especially through the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, fleeing hunger and (…)
PARIS — The children of immigrants are doing their part to become French. The challenge for French society is to let them finish the job.
That was the conclusion of a long-awaited, 615-page report released this month by the National Institute of Demographic Studies about how immigrants and (…)
Bogdan Droma has worked in Berlin for three months, between August and October 2014, at building the famous Mall of Berlin. As a result of weeks of work going unpaid, as well as of various forms of abusive treatment, he protested together with other workers between November 2014 and February (…)
The Federal Parliament adopted a new “Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz” law on October 15 under the new denomination of “Asylverfahrensbeschleunigungsgesetz”. That means that the refugees who are not able to obtain a status that gives them the right to remain on German territory can be repatriated (…)
Respect the refugees and migrants rights !
Regroup on Friday 6th november at 20.00 o’clock at Place de la République
We are migrants, we are homeless. We are in place de la République. We cannot sleep. It’s raining. Every time we put tents or even only baches the police push us and take (…)
Petition addressed to the French government
CALAIS APPEAL
Collectif Appel de Calais
For several weeks, many groups on the ground have been trying to raise public awareness of the appalling living conditions which migrants and refugees are subject to in the Calais “jungle”.
Between five (…)
The magnitude of the refugee crisis in Europe only strengthens the case against immigration controls.
It is magnificent that so many in Germany, France, Britain, and other countries have been stirred at last into compassion for those fleeing to Europe . They are embracing refugees, raising (…)
Leading progressive intellectuals are using their influence to disparage refugees and excuse elites.
As Europe’s asylum crisis intensified last month, prominent liberal opinion pages — the London Review of Books, Le Monde, Canada’s Globe and Mail — featured contributions from some of today’s (…)
Who now remembers Reem Sahwil? A Palestinian teenager who, in 2011, had arrived in the German coastal city of Rostock from a Lebanese refugee camp, Reem was among a group of school students addressed by Angela Merkel in July this year. She explained to the chancellor that her family was facing (…)
Migrations and Rural Workers
The European Coordination Via Campesina in solidarity with migrants
Brussels, 14th September 2015
In view of the humanitarian crisis that we are living in Europe, the peasants of La Via Campesina Europe want to show their sincere solidarity with all refugees (…)
In recent weeks, the influx of refugees into Germany has generated a mass movement of welcome, support and solidarity. On the front page of German newspapers and in the German and international electronic media, we can see the new culture of “welcome”. Hundreds of people gather in the railway (…)
We tend to think that the external limits of the European Union define the ’real’ borders of Europe, which is a mistake.
Confronted with the violent and obscene images that have been reaching us ever since the influx of refugees entered new dimensions this summer, we may wonder: Why is it (…)
Make no mistake — it’s European governments who are to blame for the deadly migrant crisis.
My social media feeds are filled with dead children. Small bodies, washing up on the shores of a Mediterranean beach.
Why are they washing up on the shores? European governments want us to blame (…)
More than 800 migrants died on April 19 this year when their overcrowded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The tragedy sent soaring this year’s Mediterranean death toll which was by then around 1,500—10 times the deaths during the same period last year. According to (…)
In the night between April 18th and April 19th a boat filled with up to 950 migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea, 70 miles north of Libya, while trying to reach the southern European border. This was not only the greatest tragedy to date involving migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, it is also (…)
The election in Greece has jolted Europe’s political landscape: as a response to years of vicious austerity measures, the decisive victory of the radical left party Syriza has shaken up a country and a region long mired in economic and social despair. But while the sweeping support for an (…)
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