Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Since the beginning of the year, ESSF has sent more than €30,000 (USD 35,400, £25,400) to our partner organisations in Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines. Thank you to all those who have enabled us to do this. We need to replenish our permanent solidarity fund in order to maintain this aid during the coming months - the situation is truly dramatic in several countries and the movements we support are engaging in relief work for populations in distress, as well as in popular mobilisations in defence of their rights.
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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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Both sides of the Sde Teiman [detention facility] leak debate reflect Israel’s moral decay The Israeli army’s top legal official is being hounded over her role in a scandal that has split the nation. Her complicity in the genocide goes unmentioned.
Then-Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi attends a ceremony for outgoing Supreme Court justice Yosef Elron, in Jerusalem. (…)What is Françafrique? The taboo word that reveals the shifting influence of France in Africa The term “Françafrique” describes the political, economic and military networks built to preserve French influence in Africa. It refers to a past era but many believe that it still shapes relations between France and its former colonies today.
The word was popularised by French economist, (…)Typhoon which killed almost 200 in Philippines and Vietnam weakens 2 days ago Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries.
Video. Watch: Typhoon Kalmaegi barrels through central Vietnam
The storm is now headed west to Cambodia and Laos after it barrelled through central (…)Philippines: After Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi): Mourn and Rage for Accountability and demand for ecological transformation Filipinos in the country (and worldwide) are enraged by the devastation brought by the recent typhoon Tino, with the international name Kalmaegi (November 4, 2025).
The public cannot just simply mourn. While the survivors are slowly picking up the pieces of their lives, movements across the (…)Dewi Sartika, Indonesian National Hero Who Voiced Women Workers’ Issues Born in Cicalengka, West Java, on 4 December 1884, Raden Dewi Sartika is known as a figure of emancipation and pioneer of education for women. For her services, in 1966 (nearly two decades after her death in 1947) she was appointed as a National Hero (Indonesia’s National Heroes (Pahlawan (…)
Stop the Criminalisation of the Palestine Solidarity Movement in France! France continues to repress support for the Palestinian people! Omar Alsoumi, a Palestinian activist in exile in France, was arrested and his home was searched on Wednesday 5 November at 6 a.m., in front of his entire family, evidently at the request of Zionist organisations. This custody was (…)
Western donors destroyed unity of Myanmar resistance and helped regime and rebel leaders earn billions The Euro-Burma Office and other Western ’peacebuilding’ NGOs have fragmented Myanmar’s resistance movements through strategic EU and US funding that imposed external frameworks on indigenous struggles.
A prominent Karen leader stated bluntly: “The Euro-Burma Office (EBO) is the main NGO that (…)The rise and fall of globalisation: why the world’s next financial meltdown could be much worse with the US on the sidelines "A return to policies of mercantilism – with countries struggling to seize key natural resources for themselves and deny them to their rivals – is most likely a recipe for perpetual conflict. But this time around, in a world full of 10,000 nuclear weapons, miscalculations could be fatal if (…)
Bangladesh - In Memory of Comrade Abdus Sattar Khan: The Legendary Leader of the Khas Land Movement and a Lifelong Fighter for Peasant Liberation On the occasion of the 29th death anniversary of the great revolutionary leader Comrade Abdus Sattar Khan, a commemorative meeting was held today in Dashmina, Patuakhali, organized by the Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) and the Bangladesh Kishani Sabha (BKS). A second one was held the (…)
MC Machado (Venezuela) - Nobel Peace Prize: Beyond the Dismay… The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado (MCM) sparked an unusual debate on social media. However, the arguments for and against are more driven by emotion than by reason. Is it possible to approach Venezuelan reality solely in a Manichean way, from the perspective of (…)
South East Asia’s street vendors adjusting to climate change Are south-east Asia’s street vendors, “the backbone of urban food systems”, prepared for the impacts of climate change?
Loan (not her real name) is a street vendor in her mid-40s selling fresh orange juice from her cart in an industrial area of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She squeezes oranges (…)Women We are One! Building a Feminist Political Movement in Sri Lanka The recent election of 22 women to Sri Lanka’s new parliament in November 2024 has sparked significant interest and enquiry. This development, representing a welcome doubling of female representation compared to previous parliaments, has naturally led many people, researchers, and organisations (…)
Takaichi Administration established by the LDP-JIP Coalition : How to interpret the current Japanese political situation In October 2025, Japan witnessed an unprecedented political realignment when Sanae Takaichi, representing the Liberal Democratic Party’s right wing, became Prime Minister through a coalition with the far-right Japan Innovation Party—the first time parties positioned to the right of the LDP have (…)
United States - New York elections: How Zohran [Mamdani ] Beat the Billionaires This wasn’t supposed to happen. When Zohran Mamdani launched his mayoral campaign in late October 2024, the candidate himself was probably the only person in the city who thought he could win.
Donald Trump’s election two weeks later cemented the mainstream consensus that New York City and the (…)Sri Lanka’s environmental governance is killing people and elephants Each year, more than 400 elephants and around 150 people perish in a spiral of violence that shows no sign of slowing. The numbers reflect not only a conservation crisis but also a profound failure of environmental governance
Sri Lanka’s worsening human–elephant conflict (HEC) — one of the (…)PAPUA. Indogenous activists of Kwipalo clan protest sugarcane plantation owners’ crimes Environmental Activist Vincent Kwipalo Files Criminal Complaint Against PT Murni Nusantara Mandiri Over Plantation Crimes at National Police Headquarters
Since 2024, an environmental activist and leader of the Kwipalo clan, Vincent Kwipalo, from Blandin Kakayo Village, Jagebob District, (…)Elections (USA) - Mamdani Win Message for RSS: People Want Justice, Equality – and Not Just in NYC Few things are clearer in today’s world than the widespread resentment against being sidelined by forces that serve the dominance of a few.
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign raised near-universal demands for justice and equality. Photo: X/@ZohranKMamdani
Zohran Mamdani’s election as Mayor of New (…)Unites States (New York) - Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive” Last night in Brooklyn, after his win in New York’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani gave a victory speech that quoted Eugene Debs, directly challenged Donald Trump, and laid out a vision for a New York City transformed. We reprint it here in full.
Zohran Mamdani speaking during an election night (…)The Western left doesn’t want to hear us Belarussian activists because our position is not popular in the West On 7th November, the anarchist book fair takes place in Berlin’s Mehringhof. The group Anarchist Black Cross Belarus states they are not permitted to participate. Jungle World spoke with a member of the group about the reasons and about anarchist solidarity in wartime.
Why are you not (…)Greece: We denounce the arrest and prosecution of 15 students and demand their acquittal of all charges On the night of October 13th to 14th, at 2 a.m., by order of the Dean of the National Technical University of Athens, heavily armed special police forces, unprovoked and provocatively, invaded the historic site of the Polytechnic and arrested 15 students.
The site was occupied, according to (…)
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