The emergence of Occupy Central has recast Hong Kong’s political landscape over the last twenty-one months. Lively public debate over the polity’s governance developed in response to widespread concerns that Beijing would only commit to universal suffrage in 2017 if elections were restricted to party-approved candidates. Benny Tai Yiu-ting, who put the original call out for the campaign of civil disobedienc ...

Open letter Gaza – Dutch Academic and affiliates August 2014 We, Professors, teachers and staff of Dutch Universities, reply to the call of our academic colleagues in Gaza and condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s excessive and brutal violence against the population in Gaza. ...

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Pictures from Saturday's demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Den Haag ...

Since the first bailout to Greece, in 2010, the Troika has been blackmailing Greek people with the dilemma “Memoranda or Bankruptcy”. Ever since, Greek people have experienced both: a total social bankruptcy that the adoption of Memoranda caused. “If you don't say yes to the Memoranda, you will have no gasoline for your cars, no food on the supermarket shelves, no medication in your drugstores, salaries and ...

“To live like a tree, single and at liberty  and in solidarity like the trees of a forest...” Towards the end of May of 2013, a resistance began in Istanbul Gezi Park and spread across entire Turkey during the month of June. This resistance was that of the people rising up against governmental oppression. Those of us, living in the Netherlands, have shown our solidarity with the millions living in Turkey an ...

Reinform invites you to the presentation of the new comic of M. Astikos, The Box. Α comic telling the stories of three people, drawing upon recent events in Greece: An HIV-positive woman used as a scapegoat, a Greek man mistaken for an immigrant, and an antifascist, are all captured by the police and thrown in prison. Their fate is shaped by the hate rhetoric adopted by the mainstream politics and media. Wh ...

“Wat staat de antiracismebeweging in Nederland te doen na de uitslag van de Europese verkiezingen?” Eerder hebben we op deze website informatie geplaatst over de aanstaande bijeenkomst op 13 juni (zie hier). Het programma voor deze avond is nu bekend (zie onder foto). Massale protesten in Frankrijk tegen Front National laten het belang van de anti racisme strijd zien! Discussie-avond n.a.v. de Europese verk ...

A discussion about Frontex and the involvement of EU member states in the policing of the southern and eastern borders of the EU. Includes first-hand experiences of Frontex operations in Evros on the Greece/Turkey border. ...

The US led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its ongoing aftermath may be remembered as the worst tragedy of the early 21st century. It is estimated Iraq has witnessed over 1 million excess deaths, 4.2 million injured people and 4.5 million refugees since the invasion. ...