Categorie: Internationaal

Internationaal

A letter to ‘Rojavist’ friends

We hear of a popular dynamic, admittedly paralyzed by war, but nevertheless one that could reappear again, later. We are told that it is necessary to remain hopeful and above all to believe that humanity (or the proletariat) will emancipate itself by making war first and only afterwards the revolution. This seems crazy to us. This is the choice allegedly

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“Boerkini” heeft in Europa andere betekenis dan in Iran

“Wie opkomt voor vrouwenrechten verdedigt de boerkini niet”, aldus een opiniestuk in de Belgische krant De Morgen. Ik snap dit wel. Darya Safai, de auteur van dit stuk, heeft – letterlijk – aan den lijve ondervonden hoe religieuze kledingvoorschriften kunnen functioneren als onderdrukkingsmechanisme van het patriarchaat. Ze heeft zich daaraan ontworsteld, is haar geboorteland Iran ontvlucht, en treft zichzelf nu

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Hongaarse regering voert ranzige campagne tegen vluchtelingen. Europa sluit de ogen

In juni postte Toroczkai Laszlo, de burgemeester van het Hongaarse grensdorp Ásotthalom, een foto op Facebook. Op de grond liggen drie jongemannen, hun handen op hun rug gebonden. Toroczkai Laszlo schrijft er bij: ‘Ásotthalom Beschermingsmilitie vs gewelddadige indringers: 1 – 0’. De populaire burgemeester (hij staat aan het hoofd van een dorpje met vijfduizend inwoners, maar wordt op Facebook gevolgd

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The radicalism of Black Lives Matter

This defiant Black-led youth movement is the first of its kind since the Black freedom struggle of the 1960s. It’s important, however, to see it not only within the history of Black struggle, but within the history — and future — of the Left. Many may associate the U.S. Left and socialist traditions with white male leadership, a focus on

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Britse regering geeft namen 500 bedrijven die van dwangarbeid profiteren

The names of hundreds of major companies and leading British charities who used a benefits scheme to employ people without paying them have been revealed after the government lost a four-year legal battle to protect their identities. Well-known high street firms were among more than 500 organisations who used the free labour of welfare claimants, after they were forced to

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Successtrategie in Groot-Brittannië: buren tegen razzia’s

Monday 26 July, early afternoon, a blue-and-yellow-striped Immigration Enforcement “racist van” is spotted parked up on Old Montague Street, off the Whitechapel end of Brick Lane. Two uniformed Home Office officers are sitting in the front. An alert goes round, a few people arrive on the scene and go looking for any signs of a raid in the shops nearby.

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Solidariteit met de Horgoš-hongerstaking

As it happened many times before in the history of the self-organized migrant struggle we are witnessing another hunger strike, this time at one of the most militarized borderzones in Europe: the serbian-hungarian border. After the march from Belgrade to Horgos about 140 person went on hunger strike, as they see no other way how to protest against the imperialist

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#BlackLivesMatter France: the death of Adama Traoré

According to the police, Traoré died of a heart attack. This version of events, however, does not match that of his brother, who claims he saw Traoré getting beat up by police officers before being taken away. Traoré’s mother and friends were interviewed by several media outlets in which they insisted that he was a healthy young man with no

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