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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.”

Between 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.

This statement was issued by the Awami Workers’ Party on Monday 8th of August 2016.

On 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).

At 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.