Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ With this newsletter, FIR commemorates the liberation of Athens by the armed forces of the Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS) on October 12, 1944. Since the attack of the German and Italian units in April 1941, Greece and its capital Athens lived under Nazi […]
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Originally published by the World Peace Council – https://www.wpc-in.org/ The World Peace Council (WPC) denounces and condemns vehemently the recent attacks by the Israeli military against Lebanon with the destruction of civilian residences and infrastructure and the assassination of political leaders of the Lebanese people. The indiscriminate attack with heavy weapons against the Lebanese capital
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ There is no doubt that the United Nations must be strengthened as an international institution. For this reason, the UN General Assembly held a “Summit of the Future” this year on September 22/23 under the motto “Multilateral Solutions for a Better Tomorrow”. Germany and
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ A core theme of the extreme right is exaggerated nationalism – “Our country first” is the popular propaganda formula. However, this does not prevent them from forming alliances with like-minded forces across national borders. The networking of the extreme right-wing parties, which now have
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ Last weekend, not only in Poland and Germany, but also in many European countries, governments and peace forces commemorated the beginning of the warlike part of the Second World War with Hitler’s German invasion of Poland. We deliberately say “warlike part” because, in our
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Switzerland was historically a neutral country. Swiss neutrality has changed with the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. United States – European Union – North Atlantic Treaty Organization jingoism has changed the well-known Swiss neutrality. The Swiss Peace Movement issued the following statement to the World Peace Council on August 30, 2024: The
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ We commemorate the liberation of the French capital by the forces of the French Resistance and French units as part of the Allied forces on August 25, 1944. Following the landing of Anglo-American troops in Normandy in June 1944, the French Resistance stepped up
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Originally published by the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – https://fir.at/en/ Since its foundation, FIR has advocated the goal of “Never again war”. As a civil society actor, we focus in particular on the situation of the civilian population in all military conflicts. This is why we are commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Geneva
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Originally published by the American Peace Information Center – https://apic.us.org/ The American Peace Information Center (APIC) hails the victory over US intervention in Venezuela with the election of Nicholas Maduro as president. Maduro’s victory shows that Venezuela is not a colony of the US. This election is another nail in the coffin of American imperialist
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Hadash and the Communist Party of Israel Condemn Storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Far-Right Ministers and Fanatics Racist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Tuesday, Aug 13, dismissed far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that Jewish prayer on the Al-Aqsa-Temple Mount remains prohibited, repeating that it was his policy to allow the practice and
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