International Socialism Project

There is an alarming development in Pakistan-administrated Jammu Kashmir (officially called Azad Jammu Kashmir or AJK), where two young activists have been framed with frivolous charges of blasphemy—a grave offence in Pakistan and its held territories. Deputy Chief Organizer of Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF) Arslan Shani and a female activist of the organization, Asma Batool, are being victimized with accusations of blasphemy, with the former on the run and the latter already under police arrest.

Dr Kagarlitsky was arrested on the absurd charge of ‘justifying terrorism’ in July last year. After a global campaign reflecting his worldwide reputation as a writer and critic of capitalism and imperialism, his trial ended on December 12 with a guilty verdict and a fine of 609,000 roubles.

The oppressed, not only in Ukraine and Russia but worldwide, require horizontal solidarity and empathy rather than rigid geopolitical thinking and campism. Only then can the workers’ movement triumph and pave the way for peace and socialism!

The outcome of the current uprising will be decisive for the peoples of the region and the world. It is therefore our responsibility, within our means, to help the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising achieve its emancipatory aspirations.

We reprint two statements on the right-wing offensive from key actors in the Brazilian left: one, from the left online journal Esquerda Online, and another from the radical labor federation Conlutas. Both appeared in Spanish on Correspondencia de Prensa. The ISP translated them to English.

On the evening of November 22, armed police stormed Vargas’ house, arrested him, and took him to an undisclosed prison. Vargas is a public and well-known critic of the personalist dictatorship of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo

A political activist and public intellectual with a master’s degree in Nicaraguan history, Dora María Téllez has been recognized nationally and internationally for her publications and her political and civic activism in favor of democracy.

We have received the following appeal from the Revolutionary Flood Relief and Protest Campaign, first formed in 2010 during destructive flooding that year, which is now being resurrected to help the more than 30 million Pakistanis in areas affected by the flooding. Please share far and wide.

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF), is calling for financial solidarity to support the democratic movement in Myanmar, now and over the long term.