Portside

1. Freedom Flotilla
2. Movements and Politics in Serbia
3. Mobilizing Grassroots Power for Global Climate Justice
4. Yemen: Women Rising
5. Platform Workers in Colombia
6. Sudan War Targets Activists
7. Euro Left for Palestine Statehood
8. Independence for Wales?
9. International Labor Solidarity with Migrants in Saudi Arabia
10. Italy: Evolution of a Movement

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Freedom Flotilla

Yara Hawari / Al Jazeera (Doha)

The calls for massive aid flotillas to Gaza are getting louder despite the dangerous attack on last month’s ship, the Conscience, and this week’s seizing of the Madleen. According to flotilla organizer Huwaida Arraf, there will be more to come. “And let the next time we launch a boat to Gaza, let it not be one boat. Let it be hundreds or thousands of boats breaking the siege.”

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Movements and Politics in Serbia

Lela Vujanić / Jacobin (Brooklyn)

A whole new world has opened up, and within it, a new kind of politics: horizontal, directly democratic, grounded in blockade and strike tactics, and open to greater unionization and support for labor struggles. Alongside this, a new kind of culture has emerged, marked by (transgenerational) solidarity, empathy, and nonviolence.

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Mobilizing Grassroots Power for Global Climate Justice

José T. Bravo and Nona Chai / NACLA Report (New York)

Upcoming Paris Agreement implementation talks on climate must commit to several indispensable actions for co-creating livable communities based on Just Transition and Indigenous Just Transition Principles, in all stages of climate policymaking. These solutions include participatory budgetary processes and providing just transition funding to the most affected communities.

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Yemen: Women Rising

Luisa Toscane / Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (Paris)

Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks. They have demanded water, electricity, a better standard of living, the payment of salary arrears, improved teaching conditions, a halt to the widespread arming of the army and the prosecution of those responsible for corruption.

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Platform Workers in Colombia

Alfonso Buitrago / Equal Times (Brussels)

The struggle led by the Organization of App Workers for Colombia and platform workers’ unions for labour reform that guarantees formalisation ultimately aims to eliminate the informality that defines the sector. It also seeks to ban employment models that offer only minimal income, lack legal protections, and prioritise profit extraction for tech companies.

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Sudan War Targets Activists

Hamid Khalafallah / The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (Washington DC)

The war in Sudan is not only a power struggle between military factions, but also an attempt at silencing those who dare envision a different future for Sudan—one rooted in democracy and justice.

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Euro Left for Palestine Statehood

Walter Baier / Party of the European Left (Brussels)

At a decisive moment in the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle for self-determination, the “Freedom for Palestine”  Conference was held in Paris. It convened with the objective of establishing an “International Coalition for the Defense of Palestinian Rights and the Protection of the Right of Return”—an international alliance rooted in the historic struggle of peoples for progress.

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Independence for Wales?

Adam Ramsay / Novara Media (London)

Support for Welsh independence is now as high as that for Scottish independence was before the 2014 referendum campaign. And the (bigger margin of error) crosstabs suggest younger voters are strongly in favour, registering 72% of 25 to 34-year-olds supporting independence. 

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International Labor Solidarity with Migrants in Saudi Arabia

Pete Pattisson and Paul MacInnes / The Guardian (London)

Trade unions from 36 countries have filed a complaint with the International Labour Organisation over the treatment of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia. The complaint calls for a “commission of inquiry” into labour rights in the country, one of the most powerful tools available to the ILO, a United Nations agency. 

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Italy: Evolution of a Movement

Giuliano Santoro / il manifesto Global (Rome)

Faced with a crackdown on freedom of expression, a movement has taken shape that has been able to adopt the method of convergence and has kept pushing forward, showing the strength of the social ties and rich productive relations the Meloni government has put under attack.