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ESSF runs permanent solidarity campaigns focusing on four countries: Bangladesh (the movements associated with the farmers’ organizations BKF-BKS), Indonesia (the Free Women association Perempuan Mahardika), Pakistan (the Labor Education Foundation and the Crofter Foundation) and the Philippines (MiHands Coalition in Mindanao).
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Embattled Hong Kong teachers’ union withdraws from pro-democracy group and international body Union has come under fire from both Beijing and the Hong Kong government over its political leanings.
Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union, which has come under fire from both Beijing and the city government for its political leanings, has announced it is quitting the pro-democracy Hong Kong (...)Solidarity with Hong Kong trade unionists On Saturday 31 July, the local education authority announced that it was cutting all ties with the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (HKPTU), which represents over 90% of Hong Kong teachers. The HKPTU has now been stripped of its right to defend teachers individually and collectively. In (...)
Resolution: The New Rise of the Women’s Movement “In order to change the conditions of life we must learn to see them through the eyes of women.”
Leon Trotsky, “Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive” (6 August 1923), in Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture and Society, Monad Press, New York, 1973, p. 65. (...)The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International Copyright The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International was held on 10/11 and 17/18 July. While previous seminars were hosted in the IIRE Amsterdam, the pandemic made it unavoidable that this should be a totally online event.
This had the very important and positive effect of (...)Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 13 The start of the second year under the national security law has seen a man sentenced to nine years in prison, a national security police raid on another university, and five people arrested over a series of “seditious” children’s picture books about sheep. HKFP continues its roundup on how the (...)
Hong Kong’s largest teacher’s union says it will focus on education and serving members after gov’t cuts ties “As we all know, HKPTU is a union that belongs to teachers and has always advocated for peace, rationality and non-violence,” its statement read.
Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union has said it will focus on education and continue to serve its members to the best of its ability after the (...)Nigeria, October 2020: #EndSARS, Workers’ Power, and War In October 2020, millions in Nigeria marched for two weeks in a revolt that shook the world. From Badagry to Yola, youth and workers rose in unity against the barbarism of police brutality and bad governance. Raising radical slogans and social media hashtags, and mobilizing spontaneous rallies, (...)
How did Hong Kong’s largest teachers’ union enrage Beijing and what’s next for the opposition group after severed ties with government? Education Bureau revealed it was cutting official ties with the Professional Teachers’ Union, which authorities accuse of inciting anti-government violence among students, staff. Founded in 1974, Hong Kong’s biggest single-profession trade union is seen as the last surviving stronghold of city’s (...)
Latin America Region’s dilemmas reflected on the streets of Colombia In one of the regions contributing most to the global increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths, amid health chaos, unemployment, hunger and escalating inequality, workers, students and young people in the urban peripheries, peasants, small village dwellers, black and indigenous (...)
National security law: what you need to know about Hong Kong’s first trial under Beijing-imposed legislation The first-ever trial involving the Beijing-imposed law has ended with a 24-year-old sentenced to nine years’ jail for terrorism and secession. The Post recaps what the case was about, how it went and whether the contours of the sweeping legislation have become any clearer one year on.
Hong (...)Organizer’s Statement: The 2021 World Conference against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs The 2021 World Conference against A & H Bombs, taking place shortly after the historic achievement of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), renews its pledge to move forward toward the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, at the time when (...)
Pakistan: Free transport for workers welfare schools withdrawn FAISALABAD: The Punjab government has withdrawn the free transport facility for four workers welfare schools which irked their parents who staged a protest demonstration at the district council chowk on Monday.
As many as 18,000 children of the workers of Faisalabad industry are enrolled in (...)Poverty, patriarchy and paedophilia in Sri Lanka Child rights activists have started questioning the government’s definition of national security as it is quite evident that a defenseless child is no longer safe in this country. The recent incident of an underaged domestic worker who is said to have allegedly set herself on fire at a (...)
Fears of Another Long Dictatorship as Myanmar Coup Maker, Min Aung Hlaing, Appoints Himself PM Fears are growing in Myanmar that the country is facing another decades-long dictatorship, as coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has taken on the role of prime minister in his newly formed caretaker government, following in the footsteps of former dictator Ne Win, who ruled the country (...)
What ails Philippine education – “the language in which they are taught and tested is foreign to them” "Today, we are indeed known as a country where English is widely spoken. While this is an advantage to foreign tourists, it has not exactly made us a preferred tourist destination.
Less known is what the stubborn insistence on English as the favored language of instruction has cost us. The (...)Sri Lanka: Responding to the current political moment One of the things that I have learned, during the past 11 months in Parliament, is the importance of timing in politics. As a member of the Opposition in a Parliament where the Government wields a large majority, I understood fairly early that this Government wasn’t about to be magnanimous about (...)
The coup, Myanmar’s COVID-19 crisis, the resistance and the army Volunteers carry the body of a COVID-19 victim to a cemetery in Yangon
Six months after seizing power in a coup, Min Aung Hlaing’s regime in Myanmar is facing a third wave of COVID-19. Beginning in late May, the outbreak has now engulfed 90 percent of cities and towns across the country, as (...)Philippines: Ileto’s problematic class categories One of the critical findings of my article, “Reynaldo Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution Revisited, a Critique,” published in SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia in March 2018, was that Ileto’s use of class categories was deeply problematic.⊕
After a lengthy summary of the book’s (...)Philippines: Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution revisited As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley in the early aughts, I was, like most scholars of Philippine history, deeply inspired by Reynaldo Ileto’s classic 1979 work, Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910. In my first semester as a freshman, I wrote a research (...)
Either-Or: Rosa Luxemburg and Internationalism At many points throughout its long history, the labor movement has confronted a choice: either support nationalism, “national defense,” and war, or fight for internationalism: “Proletarians of all countries unite!” This fateful choice has determined the course of history at many decisive moments. (...)
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