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• Papua (Indonesia)

  Indonesia’s Imperial Highway in West Papua

  7 June, by GERRARD Douglas

  Indonesia’s planned Trans-Papua highway will facilitate easier exploitation of West Papua’s resources by the occupying Indonesian regime – and more violence against the West Papuan people who resist it.
  n September of last year, labourers returning to work on the Trans-Papua highway found that (...)

• India

  India: ’Will Have to Quit’: Allahabad University Admin Unmoved as Protests Against 400% Fee Hike Rage

  28 September, by SAKUNIA Samriddhi

  Despite months of protests, a hunger strike and even an attempt at self-immolation, university authorities have allegedly refused to even enter into a dialogue on the substantial fee hike which is driving some students to consider quitting the university altogether.
  New Delhi: Student (...)

• Ukraine

  Ukraine: Meet the collaborators

  16 May, by SKORKIN Konstantin

  The Ukrainians in charge of newly Russian-occupied territories
  The first step of Putin’s “special military operation” against Ukraine ended with the creation of an occupied bridgehead in the south of the country that’s adjacent to Russian-annexed Crimea on one side and to the self-proclaimed (...)

• Ukraine

  For Vladimir Putin, Russia’s future is North Korea-lite

  30 September, by MORRIS Jeremy

  The occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions offer the president a template of brute, military-style governance
  Right now, with the Kremlin’s annexation of the occupied territories in southern and eastern Ukraine imminent, public focus is naturally on the implications for Russia’s war against (...)

• Ukraine

  Donations worth millions fail to reach Ukraine – sparking calls for change

  20 September, by COSTA-KOSTRITSKY Valeria

  Aid delays have exposed a deep power imbalance between Ukrainians and the international actors claiming to help them.
  Millions of pounds raised for Ukrainians following Russia’s invasion have not yet been given to those in need, charities have warned.
  In a recent open letter, Ukrainian (...)

• Russia

  ‘I won’t go and kill my brothers!’: Russians set fire to draft centres

  29 September, by ROMASHOVA Olya

  More than 50 Russian military draft centres have been targeted in arson attacks since the invasion of Ukraine
  There have been 18 attempts to set fire to draft centres and state administrative buildings across Russia since the Kremlin announced that it was mobilising Russian citizens to fight (...)

• Ukraine

  Ukraine: How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt

  29 September, by KIRCHICK James

  Critics of U.S. foreign policy from both ends of the ideological spectrum have found common cause in supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  In 1942, answering a pacifist opponent of British involvement in the Second World War, George Orwell replied that “pacifism is objectively pro-fascist.” (...)

• Russia

  Russia: List of national anti-war initiatives

  29 September, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)

  The most powerful anti-war protests in Russia are organised by national and women’s movements.
  Protests against the war and mobilisation are taking place in Dagestan and Sakha and today, women from Tuva will also take to the Arata square at 17:00 (...)

• Burma / Myanmar

  Junta Watch (Myanmar): Coup Leader Woos Tourists; TV Censorship Revived; and More

  1 October, by The Irrawaddy

  Few normal people would want to spend their vacation in a volatile country routinely rocked by armed clashes and explosions. So when someone begins touting the potential of the tourism industry in such a place, it would be wise to take their claims with a grain of salt.
  Junta chief Min Aung (...)

• Nicaragua

  Sign the petition (Nicaragua): Open letter demanding the release of Dora María Téllez, political prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship

  30 September, by CCFD, CNO, CSPN, FIDH, France Amérique latine, SOS Nicaragua France, Union syndicale Solidaires

  At the initiative of French Collective of solidarity with the people of Nicaragua (CSPN) and supported by CCFD-Terre solidaire, Comité Nicaragua Occitanie (CNO), France Amérique Latine (FAL), Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme (FIDH), SOS Nicaragua France, and Union syndicale (...)

• Brazil

  A Call for Free Elections and Respect for Poll Results in Brazil - International Solidarity is Not an Empty Word

  20 December, by Collective

  In a few weeks [article dated 20 September 2022], Brazil will hold its ninth presidential election since the end of the military dictatorship. For the first time since 1988, there is a great risk that the results of the elections will not be heard and respected.
  For several years, President (...)

• Brazil

  Election in Brazil: Has Lula Already Won or Will Bolsonaro Come Up With Surprises?

  22 September, by NOWAK Jörg

  The October 2 Brazilian presidential election campaign is now in its final stage. It is no doubt one of the most globally significant elections this year. Former moderate-left president Lula Inácio da Silva of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is leading in the opinion polls with (...)

• The Left (France)

  “Campism” (France): Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s China stance causes tensions on French Left

  5 August, by BOUGON François, DEJEAN Mathieu

  The broad leftwing alliances NUPES became a major force in France’s National Assembly following legislative elections in June. However, several leading figures in the alliance have voiced their strong disagreement with its main architect, the veteran radical left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, (...)

• Amazonia

  Indigenous defenders stand between illegal roads and survival of the Amazon rainforest – elections in Brazil and Peru could be a turning point

  29 July, by SALISBURY David S.

  Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. Indigenous territory in many areas has blocked them.
  The Ashéninka woman with the painted face radiated a calm, patient confidence as she stood on the sandy banks of the Amonia River and faced the (...)

• Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Europe)

  British capitalism on the brink

  29 September, by HANNAH Simon

  Simon Hannah reports on the mounting crisis for British capitalism. We almost had another credit crunch
  On Wednesday, September 28, the Bank of England (BOE) made a stunning announcement that they would buy up billions of pounds worth of UK gilts (government bonds). By the end of the day, an (...)

• Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Europe)

  Britain: Labour Party conference, sir Keir rampant

  30 September, by KELLAWAY Dave

  Dave Kellaway reports on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
  Today, Sir Keir is the Lord of all he surveys, the coming master of the ‘political wing of the British people’, ready to save the nation from the evil elitist Truss government and save us all from ecological disaster. His (...)

• Migrant, refugee (USA)

  United States: Republican Governors Use Migrants as Pawns in Political Game—But Put Themselves in Check

  25 September, by LA BOTZ Dan

  “No human being should be used as a political pawn in the nation’s highly polarized debate over immigration”.
  On September 14, 48 Venezuelan migrants who had come to the United States seeking asylum and had been legally admitted to the country in Texas were lured by an agent of Florida governor (...)

• Economy (Bangladesh)

  Bangladesh : Rally in Dhaka demanding tax justice

  23 septembre, par BKF, KHAN Zayed Iqbal

  Today, September 23, 2022, Friday, at 4 pm, a rally is held in front of the National Press Club demanding « Tax Justice ».
  Chaired by Comrade Badrul Alam, President of Bangladesh Krishok Federation and Conducted by Zayed Iqbal Khan, General Secretary, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, AAM Fayez (...)

• Russia

  War and resistance in Putin’s Russia

  29 September, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, SMITH Ashley

  The Ukrainian resistance has scored major victories in its struggle to liberate its country from Russian occupation. Putin, facing defeats on the battleground, has issued draft orders for 300,000 people in Russia to shore up his military forces in Ukraine. He has also staged “sham” referendums in (...)

• Women (Sudan)

  Sudaneses in solidarity with Iranian women

  26 September, by No to the Oppression of Women (La liqahr al-nisa’a)

  The Sudanese movement No to the Oppression of Women (La liqahr al-nisa’a) published this statement on their Facebook page in Arabic.
  The regime of Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, who was overthrown by a popular uprising in 2019, used similar tactics to the Iranian regime to instil fear and division by (...)