Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
The traditional end-of-year appeal we launched on 20 November has borne fruit. We started 2025 with 16,000 euros in our permanent solidarity fund, and we should receive additional contributions of around 4,500 euros by the end of the month, bringing the total to at least 21,000.
ESSF’s 2024 activity report should be published in late January or early February.
For far too long, Israeli politics has instrumentalized the singularity of Auschwitz for unrelated political purposes.
The Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy beat me to it: in a recent op-ed entitled “From Auschwitz to Gaza, with a Stopover in The Hague,” he addressed a topic that I also wanted to (…)
On 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, gas prices increased by a record 840% and electricity tariffs rose over (…)
Following Donald Trump’s reelection and reactionary executive orders Eric Maroney discusses the material basis of right’s anti-trans appeals.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, some Democratic pundits and party elites appear eager to distance themselves from the issue of (…)
Brutal beatings, diseases, starvation – my Palestinian friends in the West Bank who served time in Israeli prisons since late 2023 returned with appalling reports of what can only be called systematic torture
When I returned to the West Bank last year, after a lengthy term of detention and (…)
Pollak was arrested for refusing to agree to a restraining order that he keep out of the West Bank
Jonathan Pollak at a Jerusalem protest, last year.Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg
Left-wing activist Jonathan Pollak was released from custody Wednesday after an Israeli court judge dismissed as (…)
For over 15 months, Israel has been waging an all-out war on the entire Palestinian people. Ever since Israel and Hamas announced a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a hostage and prisoner release deal three days ago, on 19 January 2024, Israel has intensified its violence against (…)
Within days of Donald Trump’s election win in November 2024, China’s president Xi Jinping was at a ceremony opening a deep-water port in Peru as part of a “diplomatic blitz” through Latin America.
Xi’s presence was a symbol of China’s rising influence in the region.
The Chinese-funded (£2.8 (…)
Israel has launched what it describes as an ‘extensive and significant’ operation in the West Bank camp, home to 25,000 refugees.
Just two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel on Jan. 21, 2025, launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West (…)
This open letter was presented to the November 7, 2024 forum of left emigres from Russia in Cologne, Germany.
We publish an open letter to the ‘Left Anti-War Emigration Forum’.
On the basis of the letter, the Forum participants and signatories formed the Draft Resolution ‘Left for Peace (…)
Leon Trotsky’s works have long been repressed in China, but translator Shi Yongqin has dedicated his life to bringing them to a Chinese audience. Born in 1949, the year of the Chinese Revolution, Shi’s experiences reflect the latent dissatisfaction of Chinese intellectuals with mainstream (…)
The first forum of left-wing emigrants from the former Soviet Union discussed the war in Ukraine, the role of the left, and strategies for political transformation. The event highlighted ideological divisions among leftists regarding Russia’s aggression and Ukraine’s response.
Participants (…)
Andy Sernatinger looks at the numbers and diagnoses the rapid rise and long slide of DSA.
In 2016, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) became one of the year’s many surprises when it suddenly transformed from a stagnant social democratic paper organization into the center of gravity on (…)
A Palestinian stands beside a torched car in the aftermath of an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Jinsafut, on Tuesday.Credit: Majdi Mohammed,AP
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday said regarding the rioting in Al-Funduq in the West Bank that he severely condemns all (…)
On the brink of the second Trump presidency, Tempest offers this editorial statement on the current moment and the tasks ahead.
This moment is an important wake-up call for the entire Left, including about our own weaknesses and those of our movements. Addressing these facts and arriving at (…)
There are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect last Sunday: that it was due to Trump’s pressure on Netanyahu and that it was a victory achieved by Hamas.
There are two conspicuous myths about the Gaza ceasefire that went into effect last Sunday. The first myth (…)
The first Palestinians freed in the ceasefire deal recounted brutal conditions inside Israeli prisons — as settlers rampaged through nearby villages.
With the world’s attention fixated on the release of three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity on Sunday evening, much less was made of the (…)
In Israel, the war in Gaza has become a burden on the government, the military, and society as a whole. Trump only gave Netanyahu an excuse to cut his losses.
A large billboard in Jerusalem depicts U.S. President-elect Donald Trump urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the (…)
Following Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s arrest in northern Gaza, his wife describes her fears over the hospital director’s fate and the tragedy of their son’s killing.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Albina Abu Safiya. (Courtesy of the family)
It has been exactly three weeks since Albina Abu Safiya last (…)
President says his executive orders will lead to ‘complete restoration of America’. Here’s what we know so far
Trump said during his campaign that he would be a dictator only on ‘day one’. Illustration: Guardian Design/Alex Brandon/AP
On his first day back in the White House, president (…)
In the Austrian parliamentary elections on 29 September, the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), led by Herbert Kickl, emerged as the strongest party with 28.85%, just ahead of the right-wing conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) with 26.27%. The Social Democrats came in third with (…)
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