Many signatures have been received in just 48 hours, coming from many countries. The call was published Tuesday night and this morning in Pakistan, receiving a big echo. The Supreme Court meets tomorrow Thursday. Baba Jan’s lawyers are calling for the postponement of the meeting to be able to better defend him. We continue to collect signatures. [Pierre Rousset]
Justice for Miriam RodrÃguez
19 May 2017Solidarity activists are raising their voices against the assassination on May 10 of Miriam Elizabeth RodrÃguez MartÃnez, a human rights activist in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas well known for holding the authorities to account after the murder of her daughter. The following open letter calls on state and federal authorities in Mexico and the U.S. government to ensure the safety of those who stand for human rights.
They won’t stop us demonstrating!
7 May 2017, byOn the very day of the presidential election, 69 activists – including Alain Pojolat, leading member of the NPA, Palestinian solidarity and anti-fascist activist – have been banned from certain districts of Paris, thus preventing them from participating in the first demonstration against the announced anti-worker policies of newly-elected president Emmanuel Macron.
The NPA has issued this statement.
Jay Naidoo speaks at launch of new trade union federation
7 May 2017Jay Naidoo, the first General Secretary of COSATU spoke at the launch of the new trade union federation, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) in late April. Below we print his speech.
Brazil hit by first general strike in two decades
5 May 2017Brazilian cities went into partial shutdown on Friday 28 April as the country observed its first general strike in more than two decades.
“Alarmed and outraged”: Over 200 scholars criticise prosecution of Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders
2 May 2017Over 200 scholars from local and overseas universities have signed a joint statement criticising the prosecution of Hong Kong activists for their leadership role in the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy protests.
“We are alarmed and outraged,” the statement read. “We strongly oppose the Hong Kong government’s decision to charge these scholars and activists for their non-violent fight to realize Hong Kong people’s right to universal suffrage.”
Call to support publishing Livio Maitan’s ’Towards a history of the Fourth International’
26 April 2017The IIRE is raising funds for the English translation of Livio Maitan’s Per una storia della IV internazionale: la testimonianza di un comunista controcorrente. In this book, Livio Maitan (1923-2004) relates his experience of being a revolutionary communist during the second half of the 20th Century. Written by a leading member of the Fourth International and lifelong Marxist, the book is both testimony and an analysis of a 50-year period of great turmoil in Italian and international politics.
Statement by Philippe Poutou on the Champs Elysées shooting
22 April 2017, byThe shooting last night where a man attacked a police car killing an officer, while wounding another and a tourist, before being shot dead, took place right at the end of the Presidential campaign. It is a human drama which today plunges families into mourning. But most of the candidates have used this to raise all kinds of fears by characterizing this as an act of war, of Islamist barbarism.
Unite and fight for Zuma and his policies to go
13 April 2017, byZuma’s cabinet reshuffle, which removed the finance ministers Gordhan and Jonas, amongst others, opens the door to the looting of the state on an unprecedented scale. At the heart of this is a very crude act to get control of the Treasury on behalf of a predatory elite, hiding behind the ANC-provided mask of black economic empowerment.
Religious institutions mobilised for a smear campaign against Baba Jan and his party
23 March 2017, byAwami Workers Party GB leader and Federal Committee member Baba Jan, who is serving life term in jail appeared in a lower court in Hunza on Wednesday March 8.
