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Twenty years since Mandela freed

the man who would lead the south africans struggle to end the racial segregation and created a multi-racial democracy.

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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.  ~Albert Einstein

Right to Education

A young girl in India longs to be in school. She watches through the window and the gracious teacher calls her in. But when she sits down, the boys shift over to one side to be away from her.

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A scene from ‘The Classroom’, winner of the UNICEF child-rights youth video

Documental videos: the many views on the first Afghan war

Finnaly "free" from the feminine militias, the mullah from Laghman province explains the war: "The communists were trying to change the Law of God. They wanted to destroy the Islamic traditions, liberate the country from poorness and make all of us equals.  But this goes against the Law of Islam: God decided who is rich and who is poor. Communists cannot change it. It’s unthinkable".

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42 years ago...

(9th October 1967)

Che Guevara was gone

 

 

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To solve Iceland’s crisis “we must deconstruct the power, to analyze it and to construct it again”

 

Brussels 10-03-2010 - The referendum carried out this Saturday in Iceland had a positive result (93%) for all those who believe that shouldn’t be the poor to pay the bill left for richest, but the result is considered in somehow ineffective, therefore nothing guarantees that the public opinion is the biggest weight of the balance. MORE

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Roma population situation will be on the table Today afternoon when MEPs discuss an upcoming Roman summit, held on 8 April in Cordoba, Spain.

The Parliament's rapporteur for the EU strategy on Roma inclusion is Hungarian MEP Lívia Járóka who is... more

Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of “Women’s Day”, which was established at the second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1910. It was proposed by the campaigner Clara Zetkin.

To celebrate this day and the... more

Women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are, sometimes, raped until ten times a year. The non-governmental organizations that operate locally advice them to go to the hospital, which is often more than 125 miles away from the towns where they... more

“Some states are being arrogant in relation to Greece and it is embarrassing that the German banks keep receiving money from the state and use it to make profit of Greece’s situation”, Lothar Bisky, President of EL and GUE/NGL said today.

The... more

Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist and author condemned for homicide in 1981, is nowadays the only North American political prisoner in death row. 

From the beginning, the prosecution required his execution for the death of a police officer, even if... more

The Foundation L’Alternativa, Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, the party of European Left, in collaboration with “DEMPEUS per la Salut Pública Salut”, have met in Barcelona to do a workshop on the subject “HEALTH AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS IN... more

The streets of Greece were full of protesters yesterday. Two million people from the public sector went on strike.

The country's airspace was blocked to all flights, trains and ferries were also cancelled, schools were shut and public services... more

On 28th June 2009, a coup d’état took place in Honduras against the government of Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales. Despite condemnations and sanctions from the international community the Honduras is still facing a very important democratic crisis. What... more

24 February 2010

Solidarity with Madeira

Following the big natural disaster that happened in Madeira some days ago, we would like to express our solidarity with the people in suffer and pain for what happened.

Torrential rains, high winds and high seas have caused the death of around 50... more

The Dutch troops should be removed from Afghanistan until the final of the year, according to declaration of the just-renounced prime-minister of the country, Jan Peter Balkenende: “If nothing else will take its place, then it ends”, he stated... more

Last week, MEPs have discussed Burma’s people situation in Parliament. The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi is held under house arrest since 1990.

The country will have the first elections after 20 years, marked by internal... more

The Akuntsu's Last Dance

Surrounded by soya fields in the Brazilian Amazon, six survivors - the last of their tribe - dance.


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Abu-Jamal case remanded to the Third Circuit Court


"The choice, as every choice, is yours: to fight for freedom or be fettered, to struggle for liberty or be satisfied with slavery, to side with life or death."

Haiti's Humanitarian Need

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Interview to MEP Marisa Matias in Copenhagen

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Lothar Bisky meets President of Ecuador in Brussels

The President of EL and GUE/NGL met the President Rafael Correa, in Brussels, to discuss further intensification of the cooperation process


EUROPINION

Climate Change costs lifes

In places like Gabura in south-west Bangladesh, climate change is costing lives – now, today. Watch these films and then take action to help Oxfam fight the effects of climate change. (photo/oxfam/3570189975)

 

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Recipe for a Successful Copenhagen Summit

"Green Thing has produced a Quick Recipe for a Successful Copenhagen with diplomacy illustrated through the medium of cookery. Watch it but don't try to cook it. And remember, as Chef says: It does not have to be pretty, it just has to work."