Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
International Call to NGOs, groups, trade unions, political parties and personalities (scientists, artists, politicians...). Please, sign the call below against the nuclear reactor EPR and join the international support committee at the Cherbourg April 2006 15th -16th rally in France. Please, (…)
, by RUSSO Franco
180 people from 14 countries attended the Assembly on the Charter of another Europe, held in Florence on November 12-13. The Assembly lasted 14 hours, through 7 sessions and tens of interventions. As you know the sessions were:
1. peace and security (R. Bolini, L. Gabriel);2. Europe in the (…)
, by BOLINI Raphaela, GABRIEL Leo
Report on the session “Peace and Security” of the Florence Assembly on the Charter of principles of another Europe (12-13 November 2005).
Our Europe is founded on peace and our security is common and interdependent
I. Principles
Our Europe (1) repudiates war as a means for solving (…)
, by BERNOCCHI Piero
Report on the session “For another Economy: Social Commons” of the Florence Assembly on the Charter of principles of another Europe (12-13 November 2005).
Welfare has never been assured by nation states on a spontaneous and regular basis, this is the idea, which we all agreed upon and was (…)
, by BARBAROSSA I.
Report on the session “Citizenship, equality, difference” of the Florence Assembly on the Charter of principles of another Europe (12-13 November 2005).
The last events, happened in Lampedusa and Melilla, show again that Europe tends to become an enclosed fortress. The South of the world, (…)
, by Movements
Paris,
Confronted to a revolt born from the accumulation of inequalities and discrimination in the “banlieues” (suburbs of Paris) and the poor areas, the government has just passed a new threshold, of extreme gravity, in the escalade of security. Even in May 1968, when the situation was a lot (…)
, by Movements
This appeal is presently circulating for signature (see below).
The civic, anti-liberal, pro-European mobilisation has opened a new era for Europe. More and more people reject neo-liberal policies and their impact on the whole of social. Following the “no” vote in France and the Netherlands, (…)
, by REICHEL Matt
The mainstream press has been telling Europeans that “riots” have broken out in the Parisian Suburbs (Banlieues) this week. In calling them “riots”, the popular imagination likens them to fires and other sorts of largely uncontrollable disasters. It’s as if the French are merely being faced with (…)
, by VILLETIN Georges
The first congress of the European Left Party took place in Athens on October 29-30. About 500 delegates and observers were present. The LCR was there with observer status, represented by Alain Krivine. This report of the congress appeared in the LCR weekly, Rouge of 3 November. (IV On line). (…)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, LCR (France)
Nearly two weeks into the wave of rioting by young people of mainly North and Black African origin in the poor neighbourhoods around France’s towns and cities, the government has reacted by reviving a 1955 law instituting a State of Emergency and giving it sweeping repressive powers. We are (…)
, by SMITH Murray
The nightly riots in the poor neighbourhoods around France’s towns and cities have now been going on for two weeks. On November 7th, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced the government’s response. It was to resuscitate a 1955 law authorizing the proclamation of a state of emergency. (…)
, by New Left Review
Self-presentation of the NLR taken from its website, October 30, 2005.
ABOUT NLR
Established for forty years as a key journal of the international Left, NLR has been transformed since 2000 into a new resource for the new century. Its range covers world politics and the global economy; state (…)
On October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women refused to work, cook or look after children. The effect was incredible, recalls Annadis Rudolfsdottir.
Gudrun Jonsdottir still remembers what she was wearing on October 24 1975. She was 21, just married with a young child, and was not going to cook, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
English presentation of the petition borrowed from Susan George website. For the text of the petition, see the French version of this document (click “translation” on the left side), or the url indicated above.
José Bové has once more been sentenced to four months in prison for uprooting (…)
, by Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc / Bloc de Gauche)
In the Portuguese local elections of October 9, the basic results point out to an electoral disaster for the PS (Socialist Party), the reinforcement of the PSD (Social Democratic Party) and PCP (Communist Party), and a significant increase in votes for the Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc). The (…)
, by BERSICK Sebastian
1. Introduction
Since the end of the systemic bipolarity, non-State actors have become objects of interest for
theorists who deal with international affairs. Conceptualising ‘Governance without
Government’ Rosenau and Czempiel were among the first to stress the “growing importance
of (…)
, by Ras l’front
Self-presentation taken from Ras l’front website, September 28, 2005.
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What is Ras l’front ? Ras l’front is a network fighting fascism. It includes 100 local groups, registered as associations. Network action enables groups to act together, to think, exchange information and (…)
, by RUSSO Franco
A working group, meeting at the EPA in Istanbul on September 23th, supported the Assembly on The Charter of principles of another Europe. The aim of the Florence Assembly, in particular, will be the elaboration of a draft of the Charter, which will be discussed and approved in an Assembly during (…)
, by Inf’OGM
Self-presentation taken from the association’s website, September 21, 2005.
I. General presentation
Inf’OGM is a non-profit organisation, created in 1999 in order to establish a francophone citizen watch on the GMO issue.
It deals with all GMO related current news in the world, and (…)
, by WINDAU George
Labour After Communism. Autoworkers and Their Unions in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus by David Mandel. Montreal, New York & London: Black Rose Press, 2004. (www.web.net/blackrosebooks). $28.99 paper.
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FACTORY WORKERS IN the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things (…)
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