Dearest friends,
We want to publicly acknowledge the thousands of letters, embraces and messages that we have received from every corner of the world. We have, indeed, received an answer that for many, was unexpected: the Ecuadorean government has desisted in its intent to close Acción Ecológica.
For the immediate and safe recovery of Salman Haide, disappeared poet and activist
14 January 2017, byThe Awami Workers Party (AWP) Deputy-General Secretary Ismat Shahjahan expressed deep concern about the mysterious disappearance of renowned literary figure, university lecturer and progressive activist Salman Haider from the outskirts of Islamabad on the night of Friday January 6.
The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
3 January 2017OUR MANDATE HAS not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
The Foundation of an International Socialist Organisation (ISO)
9 December 2016The International Socialist Left (ISL) and the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSB) have merged.
National Consultative Meeting in order to stop the confiscation of the Central seat of the National Union of Moroccan Students
7 December 2016Subject: request for action and solidarity from student unions the Moroccan student movement’s struggle.
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People order Park to step down
7 December 2016Park Geun-hye is no longer the President for those who poured onto the streets for candlelit protests in Seoul and other major cities nationwide, Saturday November 26.
Solidarity with the West Papua’s people struggle for self-determination
1 December 2016We, the undersigned organisations, express our support to the struggle of the people of West Papua for self-determination.
Malaysia: Police raid at the offices of Bersih 2.0 and arbitrary arrest
19 November 2016The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Malaysia.
“October 1917 - Workers in Power”
14 November 2016Authors: Paul Le Blanc, Ernest Mandel, David Mandel, François Vercammen, and contemporary texts by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, Leon Trotsky.
Edited: Fred Leplat and Alex de Jong
Statement on the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress’s Decision by Three Hong Kong MPs
9 November 2016Two young new representatives (Sixtus “Baggio” Leung, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25) were elected to Hong Kong’s legislative council in early September, carried into office by a wave of discontent at Beijing’s growing intervention in Hong Kong affairs. But the two newly-elected representatives used their swearing in ceremony to protest, unfurling flags that read “Hong Kong is not China”. On Monday, the Beijing government issued an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law that in effect bars them from taking up their parliamentary roles.
