Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par ZHANG Yueran
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Public discourse on the 1989 Tiananmen Democracy Movement has been dominated by two narratives. The most prevalent interprets the (...)
Notwithstanding the ongoing political shenanigans by appointed agencies to shape final outcomes after the May 14 poll, Thailand has already been forever changed. The Move Forward Party’s (MFP) victory as the largest winning side, with 151 out of 500 parliamentary seats, is profound but not (...)
, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s economy is being transformed through a rapid process of financialisation. Such widespread financialisation facilitated infrastructure development, a real estate boom linked to urbanisation and expansion of credit leading to increasing indebtedness of the (...)
, by Network Opposed to War (NO to War), Palestine Solidarity Pilipinas
Kapayapaan Hindi Digmaan!
Wars must cease and the occupied and dominated nations, populations must be freed!
We, representatives of grassroots organizations convene the Network Opposed to War (NO to War) – Palestine Solidarity Pilipinas in Cotabato City and Maguindanao provinces today in (...)
, by Vera Files
Netizens are circulating a fake quote card of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Interior and Local Government Minister Atty. Naguib Sinarimbo supposedly saying Christians do not have a place in Marawi.
It is a fabricated statement that spread on Dec. 3, the day a bomb (...)
, by MYAT Aung Kaung
Researcher Aung Kaung Myat unpacks the internal dynamics of the complex coalition of armed groups battling for dominance across Myanmar
Raisa: On 27 October, an alliance of armed groups battling Myanmar’s military junta launched a coordinated attack in the Northern Shan state, making rapid (...)
, by MISSBACH Antje, VIARTASIWI Nino
Every year when the monsoon season in Bangladesh ends, risky journeys of Rohingya refugees take off en route to Malaysia. Not all passengers who embark from the refugee camps near the Bangladesh–Myanmar border reach their destination alive. In November 2023, five boats with more than 1,100 (...)
, by GUNAWARDENA Devaka
Amid a suffocating consensus on austerity, any opportunity to expand on the current stakes of Left strategy in Sri Lanka must be seen as a small victory. The debate provoked by my original piece, including Ramindu Perera’s response in Polity, ought to continue to widen to include a diverse set (...)
, by BELLO Walden
He was a war criminal, and he also transformed many into activists.
On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record numbers. Let me add to the “praises.” More than anyone else, Henry, along with his boss, Richard (...)
, by CABRERA Ferdinand
(3rd UPDATE) The explosion occurs while a group, mainly students, gather for a Mass at the Mindanao State University’s Dimaporo Gym.
COTABATO, Philippines – At least four people were killed while some 45 others were hurt as an explosion ripped through a gym at the state-run Mindanao State (...)
, by AU Loong-yu, FUENTES Federico
Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. In this extensive interview, Au discusses China’s global status and its (...)
, by AU Loong-yu, FUENTES Federico
Au Loong-Yu is a long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. In this extensive interview, Au discusses China’s global status and its (...)
, by SANTOS Soliman, Jr
This is an initial hopeful critical paragraph-by-paragraph annotation of, including some questions on, the breakthrough four-paragraph Joint Statement signed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on November 23, (...)
In an internationally unprecedented move, Pakistan has imposed a steep $830 ‘exit permit fee’ per person on each refugee who fled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan since 2021 and is in Pakistan awaiting resettlement to another country.
Actor Angelina Jolie in a recent Instagram post earlier (...)
, par EAR Sophal
A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted (...)
, by DINKELAKER Samia, RUCKUS Ralf
The Class Composition of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Industry
For more than three decades, Taiwan has relied on the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of racialized migrant workers from Southeast Asia. These perform difficult, dirty, monotonous, and devalued (...)
, by BHADRAKANTHI Renuka, WEDAGEDARA Amali
Weligepola All Women’s Asso. for Integrated Community Development Exec. Dir. Renuka Bhadrakanthi highlights limitations in proposed microcredit legislation and in policymaking on rural dev./finance
Microfinance loans disbursed at usurious interest rates have trapped thousands of low-income (...)
, by LABAN Kababaihan
As a movement of grassroots women in Mindanao who are fighting against injustices and oppression fueled by the capitalist system – a system that portrays women and nature as objects for domination and exploitation – we believe that the struggle of the Palestinian people in general and (...)
, by CNBC Indonesia
Jakarta — Workers held simultaneous demonstrations at a number of locations in West Java in protest against a 2024 minimum wage decision by the West Java Provincial Wage Council at a plenary meeting on Tuesday evening, November 28.
The protesting workers, who came from a number of different (...)
, by GUNAWARDENA Madhulika, SRITHARAN Sinthuja
The push for privatisation of SOEs, public goods and services, the liberalisation of markets, and the increased indirect taxes on working people are reflective of an anti-working people commercial budget
Sri Lanka’s Budget 2024 follows the IMF package signed in March 2023. While President (...)
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