Recognize the rights and welfare of Migrants! APPM | 23 – 10 – 2009 | The Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) deplores the ongoing crackdown on the 190,000 undocumented migrant workers in South Korea. This is in support of calls by the Migrant Trade Union (MTU) and other migrants groups in Korea against the massive arrest, detention and deportation ...

PHILIPPINES | 23 – 10 – 2009 | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and all revolutionary forces join the family and friends of staunch human rights fighter Fr. Cecilio Lucero in marking today the 40th day of his abominable murder by fascist operatives of the state. The CPP joins the Diocese of Catarman and the entire progressive and ...

ATHEN | 22 – 10 – 2009 | Migrants and refugees from grassroot organizations from across the world are set to convene in Athens, Greece from Nov. 1-4, at the prestigious Athens University of Economics and Business for the Second International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR). An assembly where migrants and refugees speak for themselves, the IAMR is supported ...

INDIA | 16 – 10 – 2009 | A Pretext to Impose Brutal Repression: the Government’s “Offensive” Is a Formula for Bloodshed and Injustice The Campaign for Survival and Dignity, a national platform of adivasi and forest dwellers’ mass organisations (listed below) from ten States, unequivocally condemns the reported plans for a military “offensive” by the government in the country’s ...

UKRAINE | 16 – 10 – 2009 | From a news release by the Coordination Council of Workers’ Movement of Ukraine (KSRD) published in the newspaper “Workers Action” in September. A trial aimed at repressing job actions by the workers at a private processing plant in the city of Krasny Luch of the Lugansk region, Ukraine, will reopen on Oct. ...

PATNA | 16 – 10 – 2009 | Maoists blew up a tower of a private telecom firm and torched a truck in Bihar’s Sheohar District last night. According to officials, around 45 to 50 Maoists blew up the Airtel tower at Brindaban Bazar and asked villagers to stay at home. Around 45-50 ultras swooped on the Brindaban Bazar. Earlier, ...

ILPS | 13 – 10 – 2009 | On October 9, Comrades Alessandro and Samuele are standing trial for organizing an anti-racist patrol in Massa to defend migrants against attacks by fascist gangs that have been unleashed by the reactionary ruling classes in Italy. The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) is united with all progressive and freedom-loving people of ...

UNITY STATEMENT | 13 – 10 – 2009 | We, 113 participants from 22 countries representing peasants, small farmers, agricultural workers, women, indigenous peoples’, fisherfolk organizations, and health, environmental and consumers CSOs met in the Conference on Confronting the Food Crisis and Climate Change from 27-29 September, 2009 in Penang, Malaysia. We met in the midst of the worst global ...

PHILIPPINES | 13 – 10 – 2009 | You have undoubtedly seen the amazing images of the destruction and death in the Philippines that has resulted from Typhoon Ondoy. The Centre d’appui aux Philippines / Centre for Philippine Concerns (CAPCPC) deplores the deaths and offers its condoleances to the families of the victims. We join with our friends at BAYAN ...

ISTANBUL | 13 – 10 – 2009 | The massive attacks, arrests and the censoring of the media, closings of oppositional revolutionary and progressive papers in Turkey have recently increased. All of these attacks happen in a time in where Turkey talks about “Kurdish solution” and “democracy solution”. But in reality it’s the other way around, with repression, false scenarios ...