19 articles

• Faced with the crisis in Venezuela: what to do?

  4 February 2019, by Plateforme altermondialiste

  Venezuela is in a serious social, economic and political crisis. The death of Hugo Chávez, who had "rebuilt" the country in 1999, coincided with a catastrophic decline in oil prices, which accounted for 90% of the country’s exports and income. Meanwhile, the governance of his successor Nicolás Maduro has significantly aggravated the impacts of this crisis. With the threat of intervention by the United States, which would like to destroy this country in the name of "human rights" and "democracy", the situation is even more serious. Such an intervention would not only destroy the government, but would also crush an entire people and their progressive forces.

• BDS victories in 2018 reflect a growing movement

  7 January 2019, by Nadia Elia

  Most people date the global boycott campaign to end South African apartheid to the 1980s. What is frequently omitted is that, while it picked up most in the 1980s, the call for boycotts was not issued in the 1980s, but in 1959.

  Today, we are witnessing a similar grassroots phenomenon in Palestine, as throughout the country, acts of resistance are bubbling up to the surface. However, we must note that one of the more encouraging aspects of these breakthroughs is that most were accomplished by local individuals, groups, and coalitions with no direct involvement from the “leaders” of the BDS movement, the steering collectives of various groups focused on BDS.

  This is extremely significant on its own terms, but also illustrates that the many years of political discussion that were catalyzed by the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS against Israel are bearing fruit.

• The shrinking space for solidarity with migrants and refugees

  9 November 2018, by TNI

  How the European Union and Member States target and criminalize defenders of the rights of people on the move.

• Sursaut citoyen

  15 May 2018, by Sursaut Citoyen

  We are citizens, French or not. Volunteers or wage-earners. Grandparents or students. All of us, men and women, committed with migrants and refugees arrived in France, in associations, in citizen collectives, in collectives of neighbours, formal or informal, even individually.

• Call for international solidarity with the Brazilian people

  20 April 2018, by Forum social mondial - Bahia

  The organizations that participated in the facilitation process of the World Social Forum 2018, held in Salvador from March 13 to 17 call for international support and solidarity with the political, partisan, union, social, and popular members who are without any affiliation, who stand up in every country, especially in São Bernardo do Campo, in a position of resistance to this deathblow which is being deployed against the Brazilian people.