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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Ireland’s November 29 2024 General Election : Racist Warning Signs The June 2024 Euro/ Local results in Ireland produced some alarming results – the racist far-right came from the margins and increased its electoral support. This could be a predictor of the coming General Election result.
Warning signs to anti-racists exist in various opinion surveys. See, (…)Pakistan: Comprador Nation Last week in Islamabad, a series of violent confrontations erupted between supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of the jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, and state security forces. Hundreds were injured as police and paramilitary rangers used bullets and tear gas to (…)
Foreign Policy (United States) – Trump: Isolationist in Instinct, Unpredictable in Action There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another is that it will be bad for American democracy. A third is that it will be largely bad for minorities and for women.
But when it comes to many other matters, like (…)United States: Resisting authoritarian populism - Trump’s victory and the tasks of the Left, part 1 The Left, social movements, and unions cannot rely on the Democrats, who are responsible for Trump’s victory, Ashley Smith argues. Instead, we must unite against all the looming attacks, defend migrants and trans people in particular, and build an independent resistance committed to fighting for (…)
Solidarity Statement on Martial law in South Korea On 3 December, the South Korean President declared martial law. This was the first time martial law had been declared in 44 years. Despite pressure from the armed forces (helicopters and armoured vehicles near parliament, attempted intrusion by special forces), the members of the Korean (…)
South Korea: People’s power defeats president’s coup attempt in 6 hours Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s right-wing president, tried to emulate previous dictatorial leaders, such as Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan, to maintain his power through the implementation of martial law. But he failed within just six hours, because the Korean people rose up against him (…)
Gaza Tents Flooded With Rain, Waste, Destroying the Little Palestinian Refugees Have Left The recent weather has intensified the distress across the Gaza Strip, with the tents of some two million refugees flooding from either rainwater or sewage. ’It can be summed up in two words : despair and catastrophe,’ a Gaza resident told Haaretz
A tent camp of Palestinian refugees in the (…)South Korea: After President Yoon’s failed self-coup President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law has sparked outrage in the streets and concern among South Korea’s international allies.
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s self-coup failed within 153 minutes. Though the situation remains volatile, people are safe from the threat of military (…)Sri Lanka’s 2024 Election Revolution: NPP Victory Ends Era of Patronage Politics Sri Lanka’s shock election results, which saw the left-wing National People’s Power secure a stunning two-thirds majority, reflect deep-seated frustrations with a political establishment that failed to prevent economic collapse. While voters across ethnic and regional divides united behind the (…)
Families with slave-owning origins have maintained power in Brazil for 200 years Half of Brazilian presidents since the end of the dictatorship, almost half of the current governors of Brazilian states and a fifth of the country’s senators in office have in common the fact that they have direct ancestors who owned slaves, used slave labor or acted to contain revolts by black (…)
Geopolitics, Solidarity with Palestine and the Struggle from Below Joseph Daher, author of a recent book, Palestine and Marxism, writes that amid drawn-out suffering in Palestine and Lebanon, we should not despair. He argues that resistance from below against our own complicit states offers a way forward.
Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians in (…)United States: Trump Confrontation with Mexico over Tariffs, Migration, and Drugs President-elect Trump and Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum had a conversation on November 27, a chat that Trump recalled with delight. That was not how Sheinbaum remembered it.
As a candidate, Donald Trump threatened to put a 25% tariff on Mexican goods entering the United States and to (…)Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population
Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza Strip in September. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP
A report from Amnesty International alleges that Israel’s war against Hamas in the (…)Series of strikes in South Korea – KCTU launches indefinite nationwide labor strike KCTU union launches indefinite general strike across South Korea Dec. 4; other strikes continue. Transport, business disruptions likely.
Workers represented by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) launched an indefinite nationwide labor strike on Dec. 4. Labor leaders assert that (…)What is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham? And how did the Islamist group evolve into a key player in Syria’s civil war? The Islamist group had previously pivoted away from global jihadism and toward local government attaining local power?
A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo – and demonstrated the growing prominence of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (…)Korean Confederation of Trade Unions statement on Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law in South Korea The unimaginable has happened. Martial law has been declared for the first time in 44 years. On December 3rd, Yoon Suk-yeol announced an emergency statement at the Presidential Office in Yongsan late at night and declared martial law. While the stated reason for declaring martial law is “to (…)
China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
Over the past year, analysts and writers in the mainstream press as well as in some left-wing media have argued that China has upended its relationship with Israel in its defense of Palestine in the wake of (…)Lebanon: Ceasefires are not a panacea. Here are 4 reasons to be concerned about the Israel-Hezbollah deal Under the terms of the deal, Israel will gradually withdraw from Lebanon, while Hezbollah isn’t allowed to rebuild near the border. But will the ceasefire hold?
The announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah is welcome news for a region torn apart by more than a year of (…)South Korea had martial law for 6 hours. Why did this happen and what can we expect now? On Tuesday night, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sent shockwaves through the world by declaring martial law in the country.
Yoon’s opponents in the National Assembly immediately sought to mass at the legislature to block the decree. This led to a dramatic confrontation with soldiers over (…)Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi The scholar of Palestinian history talks about what has and has not surprised him about the world‘s response to Israel‘s assault on Gaza.
The historian Rashid Khalidi has, for many years, been a preeminent Arab-American intellectual and among the most vocal critics of America’s involvement in (…)
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