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Authors: 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

Two 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.

15 years ago, Morocco hosted the COP 7. This year the Conference of Parties on Climate Change prepares its 22nd edition, again in Morocco. What happened during those 15 years? Not much.

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LAHORE, Oct 20: Awami Workers Party has demanded immediate release of its leader Baba Jan and 16 other political prisoners and stop harassment of progressive and nationalist activists in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Scores of farmers and other citizens on Tuesday September 27 rallied behind the call of the Awami Workers Party (AWP) to highlight their issues.
The rally started from the grain market and the participants, who were chanting slogans and carrying AWP’s flags, marched through city roads and reached Shahbaz Chowk, where a public meeting was held.
AWP Secretary-General Farooq Tariq said the citizens had been deprived of clean water due to shortage. The canal water supply was not feeding (…)

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!