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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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Inquisition Mode Mexico city, 6 July 1946. Victor Serge had a year to live. He had spent the morning, as he sometimes did, with Trotsky’s widow, Natalia Sedova. They had been writing a joint memoir of Trotsky; in it Natalia recalls her husband pacing up and down in his study at Coyoacán, engaged in heated (...)
UK: Benjamin Zephaniah: ’Coppers were standing on my back and I thought: OK, I’m going to die here.’ The poet and novelist has had a turbulent lockdown, with two relatives lost to Covid-19 and George Floyd’s death bringing back memories of his cousin, Mikey Powell, who was killed by the police in 2003
It is 42 years since Benjamin Zephaniah wrote the poem Dis Policeman Keeps on Kicking Me To (...)Refusing to wear face masks should be as taboo as drunk driving, UK science body chief says (CNN)Refusing to wear a face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic should be as socially unacceptable as drunk-driving, or driving without using a seat belt, the president of the UK’s Royal Society said Tuesday.
Venki Ramakrishnan called for everyone to wear a face covering in public — particularly (...)Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.
Four recent polls — including one released this week by Civis (...)Philippines – Statement (Mindanao): Anti-Terrorism Act cannot win against terrorism! • Anti-Terrorism Act cannot win against terrorism!
• Fight for A Democratic, Ecological and Peoples’-Centered Philippines!
It was either to let it lapse into law or sign. Duterte preferred to sign it last 3 July 2020. To veto is not his option.
The passage of the ATA or Anti-Terrorism Act of (...)Smile in Solidarity: Singaporeans’ call for political freedom An interview with Jolovan Wham on Singaporeans’ latest push back against state retaliation.
With the country’s elections slated to take place next month, Singapore is technically a democracy. Yet for decades, the country has been ruled by the conversative party, the People’s Action Party, who not (...)Coronavirus measures give Bangladeshi workers for global clothing chains a stark choice: disease or starvation Over the past three decades, global inequality has reached a critical level. The world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%. Multinational fashion companies have secured billions of dollars by moving production locations abroad and using supply chains in developing countries including (...)
The role of labour activism in Vietnam’s coronavirus success In February, garment workers at Praegear Vietnam launched a strike to demand the factory implement measures to protect workers against the coronavirus. In response, local union officials organised training and talks by medical experts, and the company introduced such things as free masks, (...)
American slavery: Separating fact from myth – The origins of wealth inequality and the roots of discrimination today People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies, but they didn’t. They talk about 400 years of slavery, but it wasn’t. They claim all Southerners owned slaves, but they didn’t. Some argue (...)
Hong Kong police’s sweeping new powers include warrant-free raids and ordering internet firms such as Facebook to remove content Police can raid premises without a court warrant, seize equipment from social media giants and demand information from political groups operating outside city. Failure to comply with new regulations decided at meeting of Committee for Safeguarding National Security will lead to HK$100,000 Bne, (...)
Hong Kong, Changed Overnight, Navigates Its New Reality In a city where China has made some ideas suddenly dangerous, people are trying to figure out where the boundaries lie, and how their lives have changed.
A barge draped with enormous red banners celebrating China’s new security law was sailing across Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbor only hours (...)China ends Hong Kong autonomy Beijing hopes that the imposition of the ‘National Security Law’ will mean the end of the democratic movement in Hong Kong. Colin Sparks argues that they are likely to be disappointed.
The Hong Kong police have wasted no time in using the new national security law. Adopted unanimously, of (...)Hong Kong’s new era of terror The criminalization of dissent in Hong Kong takes place within a global wave of national militarization and securitization.
On Tuesday this week, national security laws that prohibit acts of secession, subversion, foreign interference, or terrorism in Hong Kong were passed unanimously by (...)Hong Kong schools told to remove books that might fall foul of the legislation Education Bureau orders schools to assess their books and immediately remove those that ‘possibly violate’ the law. Principals appeal for clearer guidance on review process as critics issue warnings about infringements on academic freedom.
Hong Kong education officials have told schools to (...)Coronavirus, vaccine and treatment: it is morally indefensible for a nation to keep life-saving drugs for itself The world eagerly awaits new vaccines and drugs to combat COVID-19. To deal with a global pandemic, the production of new treatments needs to be scaled up towards supplying the whole world – and as quickly as possible. Borderless open and collaborative science and the free exchange of knowledge (...)
The Far Right in today’s world: Formidable but not Unbeatable From a webinar organised by Focus on the Global South.
The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much social and economic life throughout the world, but it has not stopped political polarization. In the US, there has been a welcome push-back from the left as millions of people throughout the country (...)Open letter : WHO underplaying risk of airborne spread of Covid-19, say scientists Open letter says there is emerging evidence of potential for aerosol transmission.
The potential for Covid-19 to spread through airborne transmission by lingering in the air is being underplayed by the World Health Organization, a group of scientists have said.
In an open letter due to be (...)An end to Hong Kong as we know it? Beijing enacts new security law aimed out stamping out opposition to ruling communist party, extinguishing business interests and fragile democratic freedoms along with it.
The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative (...)USA: The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s. Protests erupted in every major city and in all fifty states, demanding an end to racist police brutality. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like rebellions, (...)
Mindanao (Philippines): Overcoming the Covid-19 Pandemic – Lessons from the “dulet” The author of this essay is Minted sa Inged (MSI) Alim “Kim” Bandara, is a member of the Supreme Council of Chieftains of Timuay Justice and Governance (TJG) or Kesefanangguwit Timuay. The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown in Mindanao reminded many Teduray and Lambangian (T&L)! of old (...)
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