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.
Statement from Hongkong Against Hatred of the Marginalised: Justice for Hande Kader – In support to our Turkish LGBT comrades, long live international solidarity!
8 September 2016Recent 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.
Demonstration in Istanbul for Hande Kader: We want to die of natural causes
30 August 2016Those 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.”
Leucate: NPA activists protest against the burkini bans
26 August 2016Between 100 and 350 militants of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) demonstrated Thursday in the streets of Leucate station (Aude) during the summer school of their party, to denounce municipal decrees prohibiting the burkini, reports an AFP photographer.
Balochistan: We mourn Quetta deaths – On the deadly blast at Civil Hospital against lawyers
13 August 2016, byThis statement was issued by the Awami Workers’ Party on Monday 8th of August 2016.
We are not for sale
12 August 2016On June 16th the Lithuanian parliament was supposed to vote for the so called New Social Model: a neo-liberal assault involving severe labor code liberalization, criminalization of single-motherhood (you will only receive child’s allowance if married), ‘income’ tax imposed on unemployment benefits, etc, etc. On June 15th a demonstration in opposition to the new legislation led to the occupation of a park in Kaunas. We have held the park for two nights now and so far we have been able to defend ourselves against the police with the help of a quite broad public support. Our protests and occupation against the labor code has been unfolding within a broader social movement called “Gyvenimas Per Brangus” (Life is to Expensive).
Duterte’s ’War on Drugs’ Claims Many Lives
8 August 2016At least 704 people have been killed for their involvement with drugs since Duterte came to power, according to data from the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.
EU must hold Turkish president accountable for press violations
3 August 2016As arrests of journalists and media closure continue, the European and the International Federation of Journalists (EFJ/IFJ) call on the European Union to take additional steps to hold Turkish president Erdogan accountable for press freedom breaches.
’Space shrinking for progressive women in Pakistan’
27 July 2016Pakistan is no longer a safe country for bold, independent-minded, progressive women and with every coming day, space is shrinking for them. Women of the Awami Workers Party (AWP) and members of civil society staged a protest demonstration on July 18outside the National Press Club condemning social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch’s murder and called for exemplary punishment to her killer(s). One could see the alarmed young female participants of the protest demo at the rise in number of the incidents of honour killing in Pakistan.
The Massacre in Nice
19 July 2016, byThis statement was issued by the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA, New Anticapitalist Party) on July 15, 2016.
