“What is certain is that our struggles today will have a strong impact on the context in which the presidential election will be held, on the possibility of an anti-capitalist and revolutionary alternative in the face of the global crisis of system and the growing threat of the far right and barbarism.”
March 8, 2021 – Manifesto by fAKTIV
9 March 2021, by‘Rosa Luxemburg’s last words were: “I was, I am, I will be!”. This International Women’s Day we stand together in hope, resistance, and rebellion and say: “We were, we are, we will be!”’
In Honour of International Women’s Day
8 March 2021, by“Since its inception in the early 1900s, IWD has inspired many other actions and women around the world from Africa to China to Latin America and Europe. In the United States it was repressed for much of the 20th century, except in small radical communities, due to the strong anti-socialist bias. It was revived under the second wave of feminism in the 1970s and continues among progressives today.”
Statement Women’s March Tokyo 2021 Organizing Committee
7 March 2021“We call all of you to draw a new vision of society and express them.
Let’s believe in ourselves and move forward.”
8 March: all on strike!
7 March 2021, by“There is a challenge to keep alive a massive and popular feminist movement, but also a movement that is able to make the link with anti-racist, antifascist and LGBTI movements.”
On COVID and the Plague of Capital
6 March 2021, by , , ,“Industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, global commodity chains and the travel network have set up this perfect storm of conditions, not just for COVID, but also for future pandemics.
How can we get a wider systemic perspective on the current crisis? How vulnerable will we continue to be when we hopefully vanquish COVID-19?”
Don’t let Dimitris Koufodinas die!
5 March 2021, by“In order to prevent this foreseeable crime, everywhere let our voice be heard for the respect of human rights, the respect of prisoners’ rights!”
Transition, Trauma, and Troubled Times
4 March 2021, by“The most important place for activists is on the ground, building movements and grassroots forces that can force “the institutions” to address the mammoth crises facing us, and in the process fight to expand a democracy based not on ritual form, but substance.”
The Historical Significance of the 2019 Hong Kong Resistance Movement
3 March 2021, byOn February 19, 2021 Lausan, along with several other organizations including Solidarity, held a webinar book launch for Au Loong-yu’s book, Hong Kong in Revolt, The Protest Movement and the Future of China (Pluto Press, 2020). The following are the author’s slightly edited introductory remarks.