Pandemic, economic depression, visibility of the structural inequality and oppressions generated by neoliberalism, geopolitical confrontation for hegemony in the world-system, and a close-up vision of impending environmental collapse… All of this has come together in 2020, when the whole of humanity has had an unprecedented, for our generation, global pandemic.
Black Lives Matter mobilisations in Italy
8 June 2020, by ,The demonstration called in Turin, in solidarity with the African Americans in revolt over the murder of George Floyd, seemed to be one of those routine solidarity actions which we do because we feel we have to, but too often do not really have much of an impact with local people.
Black Lives Matter in Scotland
8 June 2020, byThousands of protesters came out in Scotland, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, on Sunday, to take the knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matters protests in the United States, and to express their opposition to institutional racism here in Britain too.
An anti-racist multitude fills the streets of Portugal
8 June 2020, byIn several cities across Portugal, thousands of voices came together on Saturday to remember all of the George Floyds who have been victims of racism. The member of parliament, Beatriz Dias, also made her presence felt, calling for "public policies to combat racism and racial discrimination".
London says ‘fuck the police’
7 June 2020, byThere have been Black Lives Matter demonstrations – in solidarity with the movement in the USA and also denouncing institutional racism at home – in cities throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland North and South. This report is on the one in London on 3 June.
Paris: A historic day against police violence and state racism
7 June 2020, byFifty thousand people took to the streets in Paris on Tuesday 2 June, only two days after 10,000 undocumented migrants had protested against the immigration system.
History Marched Past my Door Last Night Carrying the Future on her Shoulders
7 June 2020, byA march came by my house in Brooklyn a few nights ago, a river of thousands of young people of all races, wearing masks because of the pandemic, walking together, shouting out the name of George Floyd, demanding justice. I saw history making its way through the city, the young people carrying the future on their shoulders. So it has been everywhere in America for more than a week. And still the protests continue and grow in size. Cracks are appearing at the top of the society and attitudes are shifting at the bottom, and forces are in motion seeking to find a political expression for this inchoate demand for change.
Latin American and Caribbean Educators in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
6 June 2020The following statement by a large coalition of Latin American and Caribbean educators was first published at Otras Voces en Educación, an independent site dedicated to developing critical theory for educational change. Translated by No Borders News.
For an Independent Social Ukraine: a Statement by the Reds on the Biden-Poroshenko Leaks
6 June 2020, byUkraine received its independence 29 years ago. The cause of political independence has always been close to the struggle for the social liberation of Ukrainians, particularly the country’s rebellious workers and peasants. The right of nations to self-determination was originally the slogan of the socialists Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrainka.