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• Global: Not one man more, not one dinar more for Putin’s army! Appeal on the occasion of December 1 - International Day of Prisoners of Conscience for Peace

  27 November, by siawi3

  We request that political asylum be granted to citizens of the Russian Federation who refuse to participate in the armed forces, to be sent to the battlefield in Ukraine, as well as to those who have deserted..

• Ukrainian socialist Denys Pilash: ‘Russia will only negotiate if it suffers some defeats’

  25 November, by siawi3

  The majority of Ukrainians see the need to continue fighting to stop further terror and annexations — at least until we are able to achieve a reasonable diplomatic conclusion. Because if Ukraine surrenders, it is not just surrendering its territories; it is surrendering millions of people who will be left under Russian occupation, where mass killings, rapes, and other kinds of violence are regular occurrences.

• Ukraine: Divisions Among The Left

  25 November, by siawi3

  Broadly there have been four positions held by those who consider themselves to be anti-capitalist socialists of one kind or the other...

• Gérard Haddad : « Le fascisme guette Israël »

  25 novembre, par siawi3

  Le sionisme avait toute sa validité jusqu’en 1948, mais les intellectuels juifs sont aujourd’hui prisonniers d’une idéologie semi-totalitaire. Je suis pour un État binational, je ne crois plus à la solution à deux États avec toutes ces colonies implantées. Créons un État israélo-palestinien confédéral, ­démocratique et laïque.

• UK: Qatar embassy protest London says: “No freedom, no football”

  25 November, by siawi3

  “End the criminalisation, jailing, online entrapment, ‘honour’ killing and forced conversion of LGBTs.
  “Abolish the male guardian system, whereby women have to get male permission to marry, work, study and travel abroad.
  “Compensate the families of dead migrant workers, pay unpaid wages, close overcrowded slum hostels and give workers the right to join a trade union,”

• India: No Matter What it Says Now, RSS Did Not Participate in the Freedom Struggle

  25 November, by siawi3

  One looks in vain for any presence of those whose claims to being nationalists are the loudest today. Despite this glaring absence, there is not the slightest inclination on their part to acknowledge that the independence whose 75^th anniversary is being celebrated with ghar ghar men tiranga was the achievement of millions of people who were inspired by a vision very different from the one espoused by the current regime. The RSS, which provides the organisational and ideological heft to the BJP, was set up in 1925 by K.B. Hedgewar. In the entire period from 1925 till 1947, it did not participate in any campaign or movement launched by the Congress or any other party or group. Nor did it initiate any movement against the British by itself.

• Israel’s future is apartheid in a ’solution of the three classes’}

  25 November, by siawi3

  “Those who believe in the principle of tribal loyalty believe that the very demand for justice for those who are not members of the tribe is treason.” Although Harari does not mention the word apartheid he does explain that there are “three types of people” who live in territory controlled by Israel: “Jews, who will enjoy all the rights. Type A Arabs, who will have some of the rights. And Type B Arabs, who will have almost no rights.”

• La répression en Iran « doit cesser » exhorte le Conseil des droits de l’Homme de l’ONU

  25 novembre, par siawi3

  Depuis deux mois, la répression a fait au moins 416 morts, dont 51 enfants. 14 000 manifestants pacifiques qui ont aussi été arrêtés.

• Secret Power, #WikiLeaks and its Enemies, by Stefania Maurizi

  25 November, by siawi3

  The ‘secret power’ that Stefania Maurizi refers to in this book is the ‘highest level of power, where secret services, armies and diplomats operate.’ That power jealously guards its privacy so that the ordinary citizen does not see their machinations and crimes, there is no public control or accountability and no public scrutiny. At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and truthtellers. An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks

• Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate

  25 November, by siawi3

  There are small but vital anti-capitalist, egalitarian formations inside Ukraine, Sotsyalnyi Rukh for example. We, on the left, are obliged to listen to their voices. There is also an on-line journal, Commons that overlaps with SR.

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