Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Below we present a comprehensive report on our association’s activities in 2024. It includes a financial solidarity report aimed at our Asian partners, but also addresses many other issues. Preparing this report requires time and attention, which we particularly lacked (or were unable to set aside) for multiple reasons during the first quarter. Thus, we have accumulated considerable delay (even more than last year) and we apologise for this. This chronic lack of time is nothing exceptional, and we need to consider the optimal date when it could and should be published (February is probably too early and April too late) to organise ourselves accordingly. The report below therefore incorporates information up to the end of March.
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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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Chhattisgarh (India): Immediately Stop the War Against Citizens In an “anti-Naxal” operation on Wednesday (May 21, 2025), security forces killed twenty-seven Maoists, including Nambala Keshav Rao, also known as Basavaraju, the general secretary of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist), in the Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh. The Prime Minister (…)
How the Philippines became the nurse factory of the West Poland, Austria, Spain: workers, especially women, come to Europe from the Philippines to look after children and the elderly or to work as housekeepers. An example of selective immigration, and therefore not without exploitation.
Two years ago in Manila, employment agencies started offering (…)Ukraine: Olha Mukha: ‘For a long time, the West refused to acknowledge Russia’s colonial and imperial character’ In this interview, Ukrainian Philosopher Olha Mukha discusses the war in Ukraine, the issue of Russian imperialism (or colonialism) in Western perceptions, and Ukrainian national memory.
Krytyka Polityczna: Is Russia a colonial country in the Western sense?
Olha Mukha: For a long time, the (…)Israel’s “final solution” for Palestinians For three months, the Israeli government blocked all aid to Gaza, starving the over two million Palestinians trapped there. Now, they are carrying out a vicious air assault and full-scale ground invasion that has killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands in a matter of days.
Brazen as (…)Myanmar: Rohingya refugee children denied right to education The Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine State, have long faced systematic persecution, statelessness and human rights abuses. Among the myriad challenges confronting this community, the denial of education stands out as a profound injustice with far-reaching (…)
What’s behind Aotearoa NZ’s row with the Cook Islands over China? A diplomatic row broke out in February between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands, after the Cook Islands government signed a range of strategic partnership deals with China.
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters accused Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown of lacking transparency and (…)Ukraine: When it is already too late to ‘stop the war’ – some reflections on ‘peace’ and ‘order’ L’ordre règne à Varsovie! [Order reigns in Warsaw!] Announced French Foreign Minister, Horace Sébastiani in September 1832 after the Imperial Russian army pacified the Polish upraising and the ruling classes of Europe could brief with relief.
39 years later the “order reigned in Paris” again (…)Israel Acts With Impunity, Europe Does Nothing If a designated enemy country attacked shipping just outside the coastal waters of a European Union member state, Western leaders would be outraged. When Israel did it off Malta this month, they said nothing.
On the afternoon of May 1, according to open-source aircraft tracking, a C-130 (…)Trump Visits Arab Kings: Making Deals, Accepting Bribes, Shifting Policy President Donald Trump visited three of the Persian Gulf monarchies last week, receiving adulation, praising the feudal regimes, making deals, and accepting bribes while also carrying out a significant shift in U.S. Middle East policy. Amidst beautiful palaces and mosques, surrounded by Arabian (…)
"Praying for Patriarchy: The Unholy Alliance of Trump and the US Religious Right In an era where right-wing Christianity wields unprecedented political influence in the USA despite declining numbers, writer and feminist Katha Pollitt delivers a piercing analysis of America’s religious-political landscape. Accepting the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s inaugural Forward (…)
Ukraine: “Most People Are Thinking About Survival” In the southern Ukrainian industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, Russian is the predominantly spoken language, and for years the majority often voted for parties described as “pro-Russian”. Nevertheless, there was strong resistance against the Russian invasion in 2022. “Jungle World” spoke with social (…)
Presidential Campaign Battle in Poland Impacts Ukrainian Refugees Rafał Trzaskowski, Karol Nawrocki and Sławomir Mentzen are the three strongest candidates in the Polish presidential campaign. They agree on NATO membership, are pro-American and also support efforts to build a strong domestic army. However, voters are losing interest in the campaign due to (…)
Czechia: Social Democracy as a party for both “libtards” and “deplorables”. Is it a superhuman task? SOCDEM has ended one set of pre-election negotiations. More await them and could have a fundamental impact on Czechia’s oldest domestic party.
The chairwoman of SOCDEM Jana Maláčová announced on Monday the termination of negotiations with the Stačilo! (Enough!) coalition regarding pre-election (…)Destruction of Ukraine dam caused ‘toxic timebomb’ of heavy metals, study finds Researchers say environmental impact from Kakhovka dam explosion comparable to Chornobyl nuclear disaster
The destruction of a large Ukrainian dam in 2023 triggered a “toxic timebomb” of environmental harm, a study has found.
Lakebed sediments holding 83,000 tonnes of heavy metals were (…)South Asia: Kashmir Must Be Free to Decide Its Own Future A cease-fire deal pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of conflict, but the danger hasn’t gone away. The ongoing denial of democratic rights in Kashmir ensures that the region will remain a source of instability and potential conflict.
A fragile peace was reached on May 10 between (…)Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza • Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by intentionally depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths.
• In doing so, (…)Solidarity with Leonidas Iza, the Ecuadorean Indigenous leader – Against the far-right’s plans to reform the Constitution and destroy rights Since the re-election of Daniel Noboa as President of Ecuador on 13 April, his hard-right, Trump-like administration, and most of the Ecuadorean establishment, have launched a ferocious campaign against Leonidas Iza, the President of CONAIE (the Confederation of Ecuador’s Indigenous Nations), (…)
“We Will Leave Them Nothing”: New PCHR Report Reveals Israeli Destruction of Gaza’s Agricultural Sector and Food Systems Aims to Erase Palestinian Existence In a new report issued today, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) confirms that the ongoing Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip, which began in October 2023, has deliberately and extensively targeted Gaza’s agricultural sector and food production systems. This assault has (…)
Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process For the country’s revival to be successful after years of war, inclusion of the population and democratization during the transitional period will be necessary, or national cohesion may be undermined.
The Assad regime’s downfall on December 8, 2024, raised expectations for a better future in (…)If the world consisted only of straight men, Pope Francis would be the world’s greatest voice for everything progressives believe in If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate Change, He’d Be a Feminist.
Young mothers at a health clinic in Manila. The majority Catholic Church opposes increased access to birth control and sex education in the Philippines. (Photo Erik de Castro / The Nation)
If the world consisted only (…)
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