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Today, with more and more information about what happened yesterday in Warsaw and in Poland in general, during the so-called "black protest", it is very clear that we had, in its different forms, one of the hugest mass protests in the post-1989 Poland.

On Sunday 2 October around a thousand people assembled opposite the Polish Embassy in Paris to denounce the proposed new abortion law.

President Obama has commuted the unjust prison sentences of hundreds of federal prisoners, mostly for nonviolent drug violations. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that he intends to take action to free prisoners in politically charged cases.

Members of “Academics for Peace” and Education and Science Workers Union (E?itim-SEN) have been removed from their positions in public higher education institutions permanently!

In less than four years, the Awami Workers Party (AWP) has emerged as Pakistan’s preeminent left-wing political force, reinvigorating the progressive political tradition after many years in the wilderness.

Dozens of men are still incarcerated in French prisons. Others who have been released are subject to restrictions on their freedom. The present government and the opposition in its entirety remain absolutely deaf, indeed very hostile, to the principle of an amnesty. Such an amnesty must include in its field of application those who are being tried and all the pre-trial proceedings that are underway.

The Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa – Mindanao and the Revolutionary Peoples’ Army (RPM-M/RPA) expressed strong condemnation to the tragic Davao City bombing on September 2, 2016 that claimed 14 lives and injured 67 individuals. We profoundly condole with the bereaved families of all those killed and injured.

Six Palestinian youth, arrested as part of the Palestinian Authority’s “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation, are currently on hunger strike and imprisoned in the PA’s Beitunia jail, demanding their freedom.

Recent military coups in Turkey have led to its instabilities and the suffering of its people. The queer is no exception in facing the difficulties of political instability, not to mention the insecurity brought by physical threat when further enduring discrimination against their sexualities.

Those who came together, in spite of a police barricade in Istanbul against transphobia, said “Trans murders are a political matter. We want to die of natural causes.”