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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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Sri Lanka: Unemployment benefits for COVID-19 job losses The Government is seriously considering a proposal to provide financial unemployment benefits to scores of Sri Lankans who have lost their jobs owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and those who are at risk of losing their jobs.
If approved, the proposal will be implemented in the forthcoming 2021 (...)Belarus protests: nationwide strike looms after ’people’s ultimatum’ rally Opposition leader calls for action on Monday as Lukashenko defies demand from 100,000 marchers in Minsk to step down
Belarusian riot police launched another violent crackdown in Minsk on Sunday evening, throwing stun grenades into crowds of peaceful protesters, chasing people through (...)After the Murder of a Schoolteacher by an Islamist Extremist, France’s Demonization of Muslims Is Getting Worse On Friday, an Islamist extremist murdered a schoolteacher in a suburb northwest of Paris. In response, the French interior minister has called for a ban on an anti-Islamophobia legal association wholly unconnected to the atrocity. We need to resist this turn against democracy and justice.
On (...)Freedom of thought: We French love our history teachers – Samuel Paty made us remember why Religion struck another blow against freedom of thought with the vicious murder of a man whose mission was to civilise.
Since that fateful morning of 7 January 2015, and the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it sometimes feels as if we French are living our lives between terrorist assaults, each as vile (...)India: Muslim intellectuals, activists condemn Paris beheading, demand abolition of apostasy and blasphemy laws Muslim intellectuals and activists speaking at a webinar on Sunday condemned the Paris beheading of a school teacher, Samuel Paty, by an 18-year-old Muslim fanatic, Abdullakh Anzorov.
The webinar was organised by the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD). Moderated by its convener, Javed (...)Thailand : Note from Detention Translator’s Note : This was originally published in Thai (’หมอลำแบงค์’ เผยติดคุกไม่เป็นไร แต่ไม่ได้ร้องหมอลำก็เหมือนตาย). Mor lam is a type of Thai song and performance that originates in Isan and Laos and combines poetry, music and dance ; Mor lam is the name of the kind of performance and a person who calls it is called a (...)
Thailand: Note from Detention Note: Rung (Panusaya) Sithijirawattanakul, a student activist in the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration, was arrested on the morning of 15 October 2020 in relation to the first protest organized by UFTD on 10 August 2020 at Thammasat University Rangsit campus. She is currently being (...)
Thailand – Prime Minister Gen Prayut: One step back, three step-ups Immediately after Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha took one step back by lifting the severe state of emergency, the government stepped up 3 actions against citizens - accusing the protesters of inciting violence, arresting activists and public figures, and paving the way for yellow shirt (...)
The 2020 youth uprising in Thailand – A backgrounder Note: From a pro-democracy stand-point, this article attempts to provide some basic background for people who might not know much about Thai politics and who may be confused or alarmed by the current wave of protest that is confronting the Thai government (junta) and also the Monarchy itself. (...)
Philippines: Commons, a Model for Managing Natural Resources Future Generations at the Table: Governing and Managing
Our Water Commons
In Cebu City, the Philippines, public sector workers like Zosimo Salcedo at the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) opposed Asian Development Bank financing that would purportedly increase the burgeoning city’s water (...)The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the (...)
Resistance, Crisis and Workers in Zimbabwe ROAPE’s Leo Zeilig talks to Antonater Tafadzwa Choto about the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the impact on ordinary people, and some of the factors that are likely to worsen or mitigate the crisis in forthcoming years. Choto is a well-known labour activist, researcher and currently (...)
CSO Platform For Reform: Don’t Willfully Undermine A Democratic Malaysia We, the undersigned members of the CSO Platform for Reform, are concerned with the news of a possible declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on 23 October 2020.
The timing and political context of the announcement cannot come at a worse time. Just this week, (...)Thailand’s Free Youth movement defies regime with nightly mobilisations A week after the military-installed regime headed by former general Prayut Chan-o-cha issued an emergency decree (at 4am on October 15, while tens of thousands of demonstrators held an overnight protest outside his office) banning gatherings of more than five people, the Free Youth student-led (...)
Indonesia: New rebels, new movement, new hope The scandalous passing of the “Job Creation” bill, or more accurately, the “pro-Big-Bosses-against-people-and-environment” bill on October 5, has been met with strong opposition from large sections of the Indonesian public.
Protests began when the government proposed the draft bill early this (...)Armenian leftists: We consciously choose peace When reading texts like this, it is necessary to, first and foremost, acknowledge that their real impact is insignificant, even compared to the most toothless statements of the OSCE Minsk group and other international organisations. And therefore, the aim of such texts is not exactly some (...)
An island’s dignity in struggle: Jeju Island and Hong Kong in dialogue—Part 1 A Taiwan-born activist in Jeju Island’s anti-military movement reflects on the challenges of international solidarity. Date of interview: Nov. 14, 2019 Place of interview: Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island, South Korea Interviewee: Born in Taiwan and taking up residence on Jeju Island since 2011, (...)
What economists like Ashok Gulati still don’t understand about agriculture in India Indian farmers have read the writing on the wall. India’s economists have not.
Do Indian farmers understand the agrarian economy better than Ashok Gulati? Ridiculous as it might sound, the answer could well be: yes.
Professor Ashok Gulati is the leading agricultural economist in India, and (...)Pakistan: Silence In Swat: Memory, Militancy And The Military In Swat Valley Swat Valley used to be green. Now the green looks dull and grey. The people living here are tired. They forget. And when personal histories, and personal and collective geographies are marred with memories of violence, isn’t short-term memory loss the natural answer? Who has the courage to (...)
Britain: Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury.
Last week, the Department for Education (DfE) released new guidance to help ‘implement the new statutory curriculum’. The guidance (...)
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