Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
We are launching our annual appeal to fund our permanent Asia Solidarity Fund for the year 2025. We are in the midst of a deadly spiral of worsening crises - from the international ‘reactionary acceleration’ symbolised by the election of Donald Trump to global warming spiralling out of control. Maintaining solidarity, in all its forms, is a matter of the utmost urgency. Our association is committed to ensuring the continuity of this solidarity, including financial one, with the movements whose work we support in four Asian countries, for the help they provide to populations deeply affected by disasters of human or natural origin.
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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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’I Guess Everything Is Allowed’: How the Systematic Eviction of Israel’s Bedouin Works The Netanyahu government, which has already demolished Bedouin villages, has crafted a plan to evict thousands into trailer homes
The Bedouin village of Ras Jrabah, in November 2023.Credit: Elyihau Hershkovitz / Photo editing: Roni Nova
As 2024 came to a close, the anxiety in the Bedouin (…)Russia: Rainbow Extremism Why has pressure on LGBT+ people in Russia increased to frightening proportions since the full-scale invasion into Ukraine? How are people fighting back against repression? Feminist and LGBT+ activist Liliya Vezhevatova on the predicament of the community against the backdrop of rising (…)
Sri Lanka: Rescued Rohingya refugees in limbo after being turned back halfway to detention The unpreparedness of the Sri Lanka government in dealing with issues having international ramifications has been exposed with their handling of the Rohingya Muslim refugees who were rescued by war-affected Tamil fishermen off the coast of Mullaitivu.
Such unpreparedness came to light when the (…)Taiwan: What Do the Three Bills Pushed Through Legislature by the KMT Last Week Mean for Taiwan? THREE CONTROVERSIAL BILLS were forced through the legislature by the KMT last week, with all three bills completing their third reading in the legislature.
The means by which the KMT did so led to significant public outrage, seeing as the KMT physically prevented DPP legislators from being (…)Ukraine: Life under Russian occupation Two new pieces of research from the Luhansk Regional Human Rights Centre Alterpravo paint a grim picture in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.
Forced Reality is the first in a series of planned analytical papers covering the lives of people in the temporarily occupied territories. (…)Indonesia: Censorship of artistic works usually only occurs under authoritarian regimes says Amnesty Jakarta — Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid regrets the postponement of Yos Suprapto’s painting exhibition at the National Gallery of Indonesia.
Moreover, he said, the postponement of the exhibition was due to five paintings by Suprapto which were considered (…)Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65
Palestinians hold a funeral for people killed by Israeli airstrikes at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, in Deir al-Balah. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock
Research published in the (…)Iran : Free Syndicate Members Ebrahim Madadi, Davood Razavi, and Labour Activists Reyhaneh Ansarinejad and Anisha Asadollahi! The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company demands the unconditional release of all imprisoned labour, teacher, student, and civil rights activists in Iran. The Syndicate specifically calls for the immediate release of its two imprisoned members, Ebrahim Madadi and Davood Razavi, (…)
Trump’s Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China When Donald Trump first offered to buy Greenland in 2019, he was widely ridiculed and nothing much came of it, apart from a cancelled state visit to Denmark. Fast forward six years and Trump’s renewed “bid” for the world’s largest island is back on the table.
And with renewed vigour at that. (…)United States: Understanding Trump’s Reelection Ignoring the advice of luminaries ranging from Sun Tzu, the Chinese general and philosopher to Star Trek’s Captain Kirk who recommended going on the offensive as the best defense, Kamala Harris ran a presidential campaign that was overwhelmingly defensive if not altogether in flight from the (…)
Syria: After Assad Falls, Campists Sing Same Song Reactions to the fall of the Assad regime - Unfortunately, the U.S. Left has been dominated by campist thinking, opposing the U.S. “camp” and then supporting the other camps, i.e. any state or movement that was in the bad graces of the U.S. empire. Call it a stunted, deformed anti-imperialism or (…)
Sri Lanka: Thousands in remand tormented in deplorable jails bursting at the seams Sri Lanka’s prisons are holding more than double the number of prisoners they have capacity for and as a result prisoners are suffering under atrocious conditions. The vast majority are remand prisoners, also known as pre-trial detainees. They are unconvicted, not yet found guilty, but forced to (…)
Sri Lanka. May Wickramasuriya: A struggle for the rights of working class women “She enjoyed the rare privilege of living a meaningful life through her dedication to organising the working class for the liberation of the working class and humanity,” remarked Dan Gallin, a prominent intellectual in the international trade union movement and a former President of the Global (…)
Sri Lanka: Economic crisis and household debt in the north The current economic crisis cannot be resolved by households or social institutions alone, and loans are not the solution. The Government should introduce livelihood and income stabilisation programs to help people escape the debt trap. It should also leverage cooperatives to create markets and (…)
“Sri Lanka’s Forgotten Martyrs: Christian Clergy Murdered and Disappeared (1983-2009)” "For over three decades, Sri Lanka’s Catholic clergy risked—and lost—their lives defending the oppressed. From the bloody ethnic riots of 1983 to the final days of the civil war in 2009, priests and nuns who spoke against human rights violations faced brutal consequences. Through previously (…)
Editorial | Does Anyone in Israel Care About the Blood of Palestinian Children? The Israel Defense Forces killed two boys Wednesday, ages 8 and 10, in a drone strike in the Palestinian village of Tammun, near Nablus. This strike was not a response to the October 7 Hamas attack, which has served as a pretext for Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza ever since. Rather, it was (…)
Editorial | Israel Wants to Turn the West Bank Into Rubble, Just Like Gaza It turns out that some people believe “we are living in an era of miracles” regarding not only to Gaza, but also the West Bank. While most Israelis view October 7 as the greatest disaster in the country’s history, some on the right see in it an opportunity, and even the beginning of the (…)
“Artificially Unintelligent Translation and the Cost of Labour” Artificial intelligence in Croatia remains a thing of the future, overshadowed by stagnation and declining translation prices. Results from the European Language Industry Survey show that fear of artificial intelligence goes hand in hand with such trends, due to which freelance translators (…)
Rural Indonesian women condemned for short ‘pleasure marriages’ with tourists for US$500 Some of country’s poorest young women have dozens of sex-and-chores-for-cash quickie weddings with rich tourists
Poor young women in Indonesian villages are becoming temporary wives for male tourists in exchange for a bride price leading to online condemnation of the practice.
Puncak, in the (…)‘We Can!’ – a new Green-Left coalition takes over Croatia’s capital But, as this short history of Možemo! shows, the platform is far from being a new kid on the block
The residents of Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, voted for change in May, turning away from a regime that had held power since 2000, whose mayor had been deeply entangled in corruption and (…)
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