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Left activism in Turkey
Dave Kellaway was recently in Istanbul and was able to interview Uraz Aydin, member of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP) about the situation in Turkey following Erdogan's better than expected success in last year's presidential elections. Uraz was removed from his (...)
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What a Taiwan minister's racial comments about Indian workers say about challenges in both nations
The labour minister's comments came days after New Delhi and Taipei signed an agreement that facilitated jobs for Indians in the East Asian country. On Monday, the Taiwan foreign ministry issued an apology for their labour minister's claim on February 29 that as a consequence of an agreement (...)
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Opinion | We Need to Admit It: Israel Wants the War in Gaza
Palestinian woman reacts as she cradles a wounded boy after Israeli bombardment in central Gaza City, last week.Credit: AFP Israel wants war. More and more war, as much as possible, and perhaps even more. Gone are the days of our childhood, when they told us Israel wants peace more than (...)
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Demise of Israel's oppressive marriage law is hardly a human rights victory
The politics surrounding the law were cynical and short-sighted Arab spouses of Israeli citizens do not enjoy the same rights as their Jewish counterparts. Heidi Levine for The National. Heidi Levine for The National I first started paying attention to Israel's 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law (...)
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La nouvelle (dernière ?) bataille de Mirafiori
Une bataille très difficile s'ouvre dans la région du Piémont pour un renouveau du développement industriel qui garantisse l'emploi, les droits des travailleurs et qui soit compatible avec l'environnement [correspondance de Turin]. Les récentes déclarations de l'administrateur délégué de Stellantis, (...)
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India: At Launch of New Book, Christophe Jaffrelot Talks Moditva, Undermining the Rule of Law and Gujarat
As per the political scientist, Narendra Modi himself is the “fourth pillar of the Gujarat model” as he continued the “populist style of direct communications” after becoming prime minister. London: “Gujarat was the laboratory of today's India; everything we see today in India was there in Gujarat, (...)
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Malgré la résolution de l'ONU exigeant un cessez-le-feu à Gaza, les bombardements israéliens se poursuivent
Alors que les bombardements meurtriers d'Israël continuent à Gaza, le Conseil de Sécurité de l'ONU a voté un texte exigeant un cessez-le-feu le 25 mars 2024. Photo : John Minchillo/ Associated Press/ Outre ses cinq membres permanents, le Conseil de sécurité compte aussi dix membres élus pour deux (...)
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La Conférence syndicale internationale de solidarité avec l'Ukraine et ses syndicats du 22 février 2024 : un bilan
Bilan et conclusions politiques de la Conférence syndicale internationale de solidarité avec l'Ukraine et ses syndicats qui s'est tenue le 22 février à Kiev (online). Par Alfons Bech, membre du Réseau Européen de Solidarité avec l'Ukraine (ENSU/RESU) 1- La conférence syndicale internationale a été un (...)
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L'opinion publique israélienne est découragée. Alors pourquoi la droite est-elle euphorique ?
Le mantra de l'unité nationale a conforté la droite israélienne dans son sentiment de victoire historique. Mais une grande partie de l'opinion publique semble se rendre compte de quelques dures vérités. Au début du mois, Yinon Magal, journaliste israélien et ancien membre de la Knesset pour le parti (...)
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Gaza : sans veto américain, le Conseil de sécurité vote en faveur d'un « cessez-le-feu immédiat »
Pour la première fois depuis plus de cinq mois de guerre, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a enfin adopté lundi une résolution exigeant un « cessez-le-feu immédiat » à Gaza, un appel bloqué plusieurs fois par les États-Unis qui se sont cette fois abstenus, accentuant la pression sur Israël Photo : (...)
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War on Gaza: UN adopts resolution demanding ceasefire after US abstains
For the first time in five months of war, the UN Security Council has voted for a ceasefire in Gaza, after the US abstained, rather than use its veto Photo: US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield raises her hand to abstain during a Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire (...)
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Russia lauding torture was unthinkable – now it is proud to do so
Warning: contains descriptions of torture readers may find distressing There was no attempt to hide the evidence of torture. In fact, its perpetrators – serving officers in the Russian military and intelligence services – may have already received state awards for bravery. By the time the men (...)
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Russia: Moscow terror attack met with repression, racism
At least 139 people have been confirmed dead, with many more injured or still unaccounted for, following the horrific terrorist attack carried out at Moscow's Crocus City Hall on March 22. But Russian leftists are warning that the government's response is “more frightening than the terrorist (...)
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UK: ‘Internal memos of the upper class': Gary Younge says journalism is out of touch
Former Guardian journalist says “sometimes ‘dog bites man' really is the story. The trouble is journalists keep missing it.” Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists' backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in (...)
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Australia: Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Labor is the political wing of the banking and property industry'
A new phase in the battle for real solutions to Australia's housing crisis has opened up around Labor's “help-to-buy” housing scheme, which it says will help first-home buyers. Last year, the Greens waged a months-long campaign against Labor's Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) bill. The (...)
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“Israel's Actions in Gaza, Russia's in Ukraine, or India's in Kashmir, Underscore the Failure of the Current Global System.” Interview with Kashmiri Historian, Hafsa Kanjwal
This interview with Kashmir historian Hafsa Kanjwal delves into the complexities of India's settler-colonial politics in Kashmir. Apart from detailing the evolution of the Kashmir Issue, this interview illuminates the similarities and differences between India's and Russia's long projects of (...)
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La séparation du NPA était devenu inévitable du fait du sectarisme de sa minorité
La séparation du NPA constitue un échec politique mais elle était devenue inévitable et même nécessaire pour avancer dans la construction d'un parti utile en France. En effet, l'organisation, dans une grande partie de ses sections locales, et plus encore dans sa direction, était devenue un lieu (...)
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How Europe is profiting at the expense of Egypt's poor
European corporations have played a key role in the Egyptian regime's policy of debt-fuelled mega-projects Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, 17 March 2024 (Reuters) The (...)
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Prabir Purkayastha's fight against two Emergencies in India – under Modi and Indira Gandhi
New books by the imprisoned founding editor of NewsClick trace his personal and political journey across two grim periods, and weave in insightful critique of science and technology PRABIR PURKAYASTHA'S RATHER dramatic abduction in 1975 and his subsequent year-long detention under the (...)
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Féministes internationalistes en guerre
En ce mois de mars 2024, les féministes internationalistes s'organisent et s'activent sur le terrain militaire. C'est tout particulièrement le cas sur la question des armes et du soutien armé à l'Ukraine, cette « épine dans le pied de l'ensemble des organisations anticapitalistes, féministes et (...)
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Témoignage d'un prisonnier palestinien : « Quand les prisons israéliennes ressemblent à celle de Guantanamo »
Violences, humiliations, surpopulation effroyable, cellules froides et stériles, entraves pendant des jours. Un Palestinien qui a passé trois mois en détention administrative israélienne pendant la guerre de Gaza décrit son expérience à la prison d'Ofer [prison militaire israélienne située en (...)
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Administrative detention experience: Testimony From Israel's Answer to Guantanamo [Ofer Prison]
Violent abuse, humiliation, appalling overcrowding, cold and barren cells, shackles for days on end. A Palestinian who spent three months in Israeli administrative detention amid the Gaza war describes his experience at Ofer Prison Amira, at home in the Aida camp this week, after release from (...)
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Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation' after travelling length of Gaza
James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter An aid official who travelled the length of Gaza this week has described scenes of “utter annihilation”, with “nothing left” of what were once thriving and crowded cities in the territory. (...)
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Israel: UN rights expert report to call for Israel arms embargo over ‘acts of genocide'
Special rapporteur will tell human rights council Israel's actions ‘reveal an intent to physically destroy Palestinians as a group' A UN human rights expert will deliver a report on Tuesday saying that Israel has carried out acts of genocide in Gaza and should be placed under an arms embargo. (...)
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Terrorist Attack in Moscow: When the government's response is more frightening than the terrorist attack itself
On March 22, one of the worst terrorist attacks in the history of modern Russia was carried out in Moscow Crocus City Hall: several armed men stormed the building and shot a crowd of civilians at point-blank. As of 4 p.m. March 23, Russian authorities reported that 133 people were killed and (...)
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The U.S. Right also Wants to Get Rid of Birth Control
Having succeeded two years ago in overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that previously provided federal protection for abortion rights, and then having passed abortion restrictions in several states that have virtually eliminated abortion, the right is now advocating that birth (...)
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“We still have a long way to go”: On Taiwan's Migration Regime since the 1990s
Taiwan first opened the borders for Southeast Asian migrant workers in 1989 and institutionalized their recruitment three years later. In 1999, TIWA (Taiwan International Workers' Association) was founded as the first local NGO to promote the interests of migrant workers in Taiwan. In 2003, (...)
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Ireland and Ukraine's Struggle for Independence 1916 – 23
Ireland and Ukraine had similiar challenges in the period 1916 – 1923. Conor Kostick, Irish writer and historian based in Dublin and Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a social activist and a historian from Kyiv answer questions about the period and compare the experiences of the left in that era. For (...)
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Report on ESSF's solidarity activities in 2023
We present below an overall report on the activities of our association in 2023. It includes an assessment of our financial solidarity with our Asian partners, as well as the development of our website and our involvement in various international campaigns. We wanted to introduce the micro-team (...)
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Lenin's Revenge: Early Soviet Hidden Voices
A century after Lenin's death, scholars and leftists continue to discuss the life and legacy of the leader of the Russian Revolution. But a fundamental question remains largely unanswered. What did Soviet citizens themselves think of Lenin? We get some sense of an answer to this question in (...)
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Ukraine. « La normalisation de la guerre à grande échelle a vu le retour de la confrontation politique »
Deux ans après l'invasion de l'Ukraine, l'incertitude règne toujours quant à l'avenir du pays. La guerre s'est étendue et sera la toile de fond des élections présidentielles russes, qui se tiendront du 15 au 17 mars. Comment les organisations socialistes ukrainiennes se positionnent-elles à l'heure (...)
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Les politiques de l'Alberta jettent de l'huile sur le feu de la crise climatique
Le gouvernement a choisi de ne pas s'attaquer aux dégâts polluants, mais à l'industrie florissante des énergies renouvelables. L'Alberta est confrontée à unegrave sécheresse, à des pénuries d'eau et à une saison des feux de forêt qui commence maintenant en février ! Tous les scientifiques crédibles et (...)
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Under the thunder of cannonade. Fuel environmental disaster in East Ukraine
For the first time, Ukraine went through the winter entirely on its own gas, says the CEO at the state gas company Oleksiy Chernyshov. “We did this and plan to maintain the trend of Ukraine's energy independence in the future,” he states on his Facebook. But without specifying that the reason for (...)
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Sous le tonnerre de la canonnade. Catastrophe écologique due aux combustibles dans l'est de l'Ukraine
Pour la première fois, l'Ukraine a traversé l'hiver avec son propre gaz, a déclaré le PDG de la compagnie nationale de gaz, Oleksiy Chernyshov. « Nous avons fait cela et nous prévoyons de maintenir la tendance à l'indépendance énergétique de l'Ukraine à l'avenir », déclare-t-il sur son compte Facebook. (...)
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Médias (France) - Résister à l'offensive de Vincent Bolloré : une urgence démocratique
Mois après mois, le milliardaire et le très catholique Vincent Bolloré, qui se croit investi d'une vocation messianique : sauver la France des supposés périls existentiels qui la menacent, poursuit son offensive politique. Pour paraphraser Guy Hocquenghem, nous ne sommes pas responsables de cette (...)
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Russia: Terrorist Attack and Election Pave Way for Putin to Intensify Repression and War
Political theorist Ilya Budraitskis analyzes the terrorist attack, the Russian election and the trajectory of war. Russian President Vladimir Putin is already trying to use the horrific terrorist attack that took place Friday at a Moscow concert hall to stoke his broader imperialist and (...)
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Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?
It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist terrorist attack. At least 133 people were left dead and scores more were injured after gunmen with automatic weapons stormed the Crocus City Hall in (...)
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