Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LALIT
The “Joint Statement” that Pravind Jugnauth and Keir Starmer have concocted is obviously riddled with fatal flaws for Mauritius’ future. It is dangerous on all the main issues: decolonization, closing the USA’s military base, the elementary right to free movement over all the land and sea for (…)
, by SIDDIQUE Haroon , TAYLOR Diane, WINTOUR Patrick
Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows 13 rounds of negotiations and international pressure
The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony.
The agreement will allow a right of return for (…)
, by BOWCOTT Owen
Hopes occasionally soared only to be dashed as legal challenges came and went until a critical judgment in 2019
The view from the decaying jetty on the atoll of Peros Banhos takes in a vast lagoon surrounded by palm trees and sun-bleached beaches. From there, more than 50 years ago, some of (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Solidarite Morisyin Ar Lepep Palestinn (SOMALP)
Mauritian organisations and individuals are invited to join this declaration - contact any member of Solidarite Morisyin Ar Lepep Palestinn (SOMALP) for more information.
Common Declaration
Our country must suspend diplomatic ties with Israel now!
This, if it happens everywhere, will make (…)
, by TBC
First two Days of LALIT 6-Day Congress
The first two days of the LALIT 6-day Congress entitled “Class Struggle Towards Socialist Revolution: Let’s put our Minds to Work!” were held at the Mother Earth Hall at Grand River North West, Port Louis. From 9 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, (…)
, by COLLEN Lindsey
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the non-profit USA-based organization that published the Panama Papers, has now exposed the big companies that nip through the Mauritius off-shore to invest elsewhere : the companies are tax dodgers. The ICIJ report begins with a (…)
, by BIYANI Neeti, RAI Sakshi
Despite tax treaties and attempts at plugging loopholes, the idyllic island nation continues to play a major role in contributing towards the global illicit economy.
A new investigation called Mauritius Leaks’ was released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) (…)
, by SARTRE Julien
In May this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a motion that condemned British rule over the remote Indian Ocean archipelago of the Chagos Islands and which gave London a six-month deadline to return their sovereignty to Mauritius. That followed an advisory judgment in February by (…)
, by BOWCOTT Owen
Judges advise Britain that separating archipelago from Mauritius in 1960s was wrong
The UK has been ordered to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “as rapidly as possible” after the United Nations’ highest court ruled that continued British occupation of the remote Indian Ocean (…)
, by LALIT
An absolutely riveting case was before the United Nation’s court, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, last week. How could a court case 50 years after the events, in what is usually the dry legalistic argumentation of the most arcane kind about international law, be “riveting” by (…)
, by MCQUE Katie
Since he took his first breath, Dominique Elysee has lived in exile. It is all he has known. His mother gave birth to him in Mauritius, having travelled while pregnant to the tropical island from the nearby UK-owned Chagos islands. She was forbidden to return home, for this was 1968, when (…)
, by RAVI Srilata
Slavery, indenture and industrialisation have all contributed to Mauritius’ multiculturalism - and to its deep social tensions.
Mauritius, an island with no indigenous populations and a history of multiple European colonisations is a multi-ethnic society made up of just over two thirds (…)
, by COLLEN Lindsey
This year, Labour Day in Mauritius was celebrated, just one month after the devastating floods in Port Louis.
LALIT celebrated the day in an appropriate way: members and supporters and their families met at the building we share with LPT at Grand River North West.
The event was chaired by (…)
, by COLLEN Lindsey
This is an article just to say we in LALIT have been in total crisis mode after the terrible flash-floods which happened just in and around Port Louis, floods in which some people lost their lives in the centre of town, caught in underpasses and underground parking garages. Others were stranded (…)
, by NANGA Jean, SUBRON Ashok
Ashok Subron, an activist of the ecosocialist organization Resistanz ek Alternativ, is a spokesperson for the Left Trade Union Confederation-Solidarity (CSG-Solidarity) and an organizer of unions in the sugar industry, the port and the transport sector for the General Workers Federation-Joint (…)
, by COLLEN Lindsey
Victories, even partial, are rare in these times. LALIT would like to share with you an important new development in the class struggle and struggle for women’s emancipation in Mauritius: LALIT is the only political party that has, over the decades, campaigned for abortion decriminalization, and (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, LALIT
The LALIT-organized international conference for action to close the military base on Diego Garcia, and to get the last colony of Africa, the British Indian Ocean Territory, dismantled, and for the right of all Chagos-born people to return to the islands of their birth, was a great success. We (…)
, by Lalit de klas
Self-presentation of the political organisation Lalit de Klas (Mauritius) taken from their website, February 23, 2010.
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About Lalit
LALIT is a very unusual party. It has stubbornly survived into its fourth decade of existence, always renewing itself successfully. (…)
, by Lalit de klas, SEEGOBIN Ram
Dear Leaders of Greenpeace,
We understand that your organization has taken a position in favour of the British Government’s outrageous plan to create a “Marine Park” on territory which is not its own, thus tricking ill-informed people into supporting the British State on rather vague grounds (…)
, by LALLAH Rajni
Management consultants Coopers and Lybrand are helping the Mauritan government avoid public debate on privatisation.
The whole debate on privatisation and development strategy was itself privatised when Coopers and Lybrand organised a seminar on privatisation where several top Ministers, (…)
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