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ආදර ප්‍රගීත්. 

සමාවෙන්න ඔයාට ගොඩක් කාලෙකින් ලියන්න බැරි උනා. මං හිතන්නේ මම අන්තිමට ඔයාට ලිව්වේ ජිනීවාවලදී. ඊට පස්සෙ මම පුතාලා බලන්න එයාල ඉන්න ගෙදරට ගියා. එයාලත් එක්ක ටික කාලයක් ඉදල ලංකාවට ආවා.ඒත්  දිගින් දිගටම ලියන්න උත්සහ කළත් විවිධ හේතු නිසා  මග ඇරුනා. 

ප්‍රගීත්, 16වෙනි අවුරුද්දෙත් අපේ ගෙදර කිරි ඉතුරුනේ නැහැ. කිරිබතක් ඉදුනෙත් නැහැ. කොහොමත් ඒ කාලය ගත කරන්න අමාරුයි. තනියම ඉන්න කොට තවත් අමාරුයි.

මම ඔයාට කියන්න පටන් ගන්න තියෙන්නෙ යුක්තිය සොයාගෙන අධිකරණයට යන්න පටන් ගත් තැන සිට.. ඒක ගොඩක්ම ලොකු කතාවක්. ලේ කඳුලු දහඩිය පිරුණ කතාවක් .

ප්‍රගීත්, අද 2026 ජනවාරි 14වෙනිදා. හරියටම තව දවස් දහයකින්. අපෙන් උදුරාගෙන. දාසය වෙනි අවුරුද්ද සම්පූර්ණ වෙනවා. 2025. අවුරුද්ද පටන් ගත්තට වඩා. බොහොම අභියෝග සහිතව තමා 2026 පටන් ගන්තෙ සහ මේ දින කිහිපය ගෙවුනෙ.

. 2025 ආරම්භ වෙද්දි කොළඹ ස්ථිර පුද්ගලයා මහාධිකරණය තියෙන නඩුවේ. විනිසුරු මඩුල්ල සම්පූර්ණ වෙලා අධිකරණය කටයුතු සාර්ථකව, සතුටුදායක ලෙස කෙරුනා.ඉතින් බොහෝම බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් තමා ඒ අවුරුද්ද පටන්ගත්තෙ.

 ඒත් 2025 අවසන් කාර්තුව වෙද්දි නැවතත් විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේ පුරප්පාඩුව මත අධිකරණයේ කටයුතු අඩාල වුනා.ස්ථිර ත්‍රිපුද්ගල අධිකරණයේ 2025 වසරේ අවසන් නඩු දවස වුනේ දෙසැම්බර් 19.එදිනත් විනිසුරුවරුන් පත් කරල තිබුණෙ නැහැ.මම ශෝකයට සහ විශ්මයට පත් වුනා. පහුගිය කාලය පුරාම මාධ්‍ය මගින් දැක්කෙ වර්ථමාන අග්‍රවිනිශ්චයකාර තුමාගෙ දක්ෂ, නීතිගරුක, භාවය සම්බන්ධව. පුදුමයි එතුමාටත් අපිව මගහැරිල… 

ප්‍රගීත්, මීට දින තුනකට ඉස්සෙල්ලා පණිවිඩයක්. එනවා ඔයාව පැහැරගෙන යන්න සම්බන්ධ (ඔයා නොදන්නවා වුනාට) එදා සීගිරියෙ ඉදල එද්දි ඔයා පසුපස  ලුහුබැන්ද, ඔයාව අපෙන් උදුරගෙන ගිහිල්ල, ශරීරයත් අතුරුදහන් කරපු ඒ මිනීමරු කල්ලියේ 

 එක් කෙනෙකුට ජනාධිපතිතුමා උසස්වීමක් ලබාදීලා කියලා. ඒක වුණේ කොහොමද කියලා නම්  දන්නෙ නැහැ.ඒත් එහෙම වෙලා කියලයි දැන ගන්න ලැබුණෙ. 

මම ඊයෙ, එම පත්වීම අවලංගු කරන්න කියල ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගෙන් ලිඛිතව ඉල්ලා සිටියා. මේ වනවිට ඒක එතුමා අතට පත්වෙලා ඇති.

එතුමාගේ තීරණය එනතුරු බලා ඉන්නව.

මම ඉක්මනට ආයෙත් ලියන්නම් ප්‍රගීත්..

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1 月 11 日中午12點，火花前往台北車站，針對美國入侵委內瑞拉，進行快閃性質的街講活動。本次行動控訴美國對於委內瑞拉的介入是一種帝國主義行為，委內瑞拉的獨裁者要由委內瑞拉人民推翻，美國的介入無法帶來自由民主，只會帶來資源掠奪並換聽命於美國的買辦政府上台。

川普不在乎委內瑞拉是否民主，而在乎委內瑞拉是否聽話，是否能夠讓美國順利獲取石油資源而已，從美國與原政權的副總統已經達成某種默契就可以看的出來。

火花也同步聲援伊朗的革命，期待人民能夠靠自己推翻神權的獨裁政府，並指出去年Z世代革命與前年孟加拉革命的例子，顯示人民的力量是巨大的，同時也向台灣人民喊話，中國對台灣的併吞意圖與美國對委內瑞拉的入侵是一樣的，都是帝國的擴張，火花將與所有被壓迫者站在一起，反對這個強者可以任意欺壓弱者的世界。

東海工學社與其他參與者也同步補充美國之前的擴張歷史，說明美國的行為是不正義的，美國的擴張只會把苦難帶給其他地區的人民，並不能帶來自由與民主。

最後參與者們高唱團結人民之歌的中文版，期許所有台灣人都能來關注這個議題，並拒絕任何形式的帝國擴張

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කොළඹ නගරයට ඉතා ආසන්නව පිහිටා ඇති දියගම වනාන්තරය මේ වන විට හඳුනාගත් ශාක විශේෂ 103ක්, උරග විශේෂ 29ක්, උභය ජීවී විශේෂ 10ක්, සමනල විශේෂ 60ක්, පක්ෂී විශේෂ 90ක් සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික, දුර්ලභ සත්ත්වයෙකු වන රත් උණහපුළුවා (Red Slender Loris) ඇතුළු ක්ෂීරපායී විශේෂ 20ක් සඳහා නිජබිමක් වූ ජෛව විවිධත්වයෙන් පොහොසත්, සුවිශේෂී පාරිසරික කලාපයකි. එබැවින් දියගම වනාන්තරය සංරක්ෂිත වනාන්තරයක් බවට පත්කොට එහි පැවැත්ම තහවුරු කරන ලෙස පාර්ශ්ව රැසක් දිගින් දිගටම වගකිවයුතු බළධාරීන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලීම් කර තිබුණි. නමුත් ඒ කිසිවෙකුත් මේ වන තෙක් ඊට සාධනීය ප්‍රතිචාර ලබා දී නොමැත. 

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‎එසේම කණගාටුදායකම කරුණ නම් සංරක්ෂණය විය යුතු මෙම භූමි භාගය මේ වන විට හෝමාගම ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම්වරයා භාරයෙහි, දියගම ක්‍රීඩා සංකීර්ණයේ ක්‍රීඩා නේවාසිකාගාර ඉදිකිරීම සඳහා වෙන් කරන ලද ඉඩමක් වීමයි. එම සංවර්ධන කටයුතු සඳහා උක්ත ප්‍රදේශයෙහි රජය සතුව ඇති ඌන භාවිත හෝ මුඩු ඉඩම් යොදා ගැනීමට හැකියාව තිබියදීත්, දියගම වනාන්තර කොටසම යොදා ගැනීම තුළින් ජෛව විවිධත්වයෙන් අනූන පරිසර කලාපයක් රටට අහිමිව යනු ඇත. ‎එබැවින් දියගම පාරිසරික සෞන්දර්ය මරා දැමීමට ප්‍රථමව,සාමූහික හඬක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම තුළින් නූපන් පරපුර වෙනුවෙන් මෙම ජෛව සම්පත රැක ගැනීමට පියවර ගත යුතුව තිබේ..

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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis. Renee was a peaceful neighbor, poet, and artist who studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. But Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, under Donald Trump, labeled Renee a “domestic terrorist” —a complete fabrication, a falsehood used to justify the crackdown on activism fighting the Trump Administration’s anti-immigrant policies. Following Renee’s murder, protests erupted across the country, and we must unite to demand justice for Renee and strengthen the fight for immigrants’ rights.

A national struggle in defense of immigrants’ rights

Kristi Noem’s ridiculous statements were rejected even by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The reality is that on Tuesday, January 6, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployed more than 2,000 agents to the twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul with the objective of arresting and prosecuting Somali immigrants residing in the city. Among the officials and officers was Gregory Bovino, a high-ranking Border Patrol official who has become the public face of the raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and other cities.

But as has been happening in cities everywhere, Americans themselves came to the defense of immigrants of other nationalities living in our country. Renee was exercising her legal right to protest against ICE activity, to confront its abuses, defending people against ICE violence, which has inspired thousands of people across the country to patrol neighborhoods and provide support to those targeted by ICE, which represses, persecutes, and separates hundreds of citizens from their families and communities through deportation. 

When ICE agents confronted Renee’s car, they brutally shot her. In a scene reminiscent of the raids in Los Angeles and Chicago, protesters shouted at the agents and blew whistles, a common sound during these types of actions. “Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ ICE out of Minnesota!” they chanted loudly from behind the police cordon. The mobilization demanding Justice for Renee is now sweeping across the country, from California to New York, from Boston to Minnesota; in every city in the country, a mass mobilization is confronting the government of Donald Trump and his immigration policy.

To make the national movement for the defense of immigrants ever larger.

Since last year, a movement has been underway in which hundreds of activists across the country, like Renee Nicole Good, have taken to the streets to protect their friends, neighbors, coworkers, and members of our immigrant communities. We have developed creative and combative tactics for the struggle, and now it is time to expand this movement, as we have been developing it as part of the Fourth American Revolution that is shaking our country and the world. To read more about the American revolution click here

Our country has been developing movements that then become global struggles since the fall of the Pentagon and the outbreak of the global capitalist crisis between 2008 and 2009, first with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement against the bankers and capitalism; in 2013, with the Black Lives Matter (BLM ) movement in defense of the rights of African Americans; then with the “Me Too” movement in 2017 in defense of women’s rights. And then more movements like…

In 2017, the “New Unionism” movement emerged, fueled by strikes against the management of the multinational food company Kellogg’s in October 2021 and the victory of Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York’s logistics hub, which gave rise to a new wave of union activism. Subsequently, the massive movement of mobilizations and university occupations in support of Palestine arose in 2024, which also gave rise to groups such as “Within Our Lifetime ,” led by Nerdeen Kiswani, a Palestinian-American activist from Brooklyn.

In 2025, the immigrant rights movement emerged in response to immigration policy, culminating in protests in Los Angeles, California, against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting immigrants. Then, in June 2025, the “No Kings” movement arose as part of a series of protests held on Saturday, June 14, 2025, the 250th anniversary of the Armed Forces, which included a military parade in Washington, D.C., coinciding with President Trump’s 79th birthday. Now we must expand and strengthen the movement to defend immigrants’ rights, defeat ICE, and overturn Donald Trump’s policies. Join La Marx US to make this goals a reality.

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Today we commemorate the birth of Cyril Lionel Robert James, a titan of revolutionary thought and a foundational figure in the tradition of Marxist-Pan-Africanism. Born on 4 January 1901 in Tunapuna, Trinidad, James dedicated his life to articulating and advancing the inseparable cause of global working class emancipation and anti-colonial liberation. His work stands as a profound correction to Eurocentric Marxism, insisting that the struggle of the Black people and colonised peoples generally was not a secondary concern but the very vanguard of the world socialist movement.

James’s intellectual journey began within the contradictions of the British colonial education system, which provided him with the tools of Western literature and history while he lived under a regime that denied basic rights to his people. This early experience forged a critical perspective that would define his life’s work. His move to England in 1932 placed him at the centre of the period’s great political ferment amidst economic depression and the rising fascist threat. He engaged deeply with the revolutionary movements of the time, contributing significantly to the International African Service Bureau where he collaborated with other seminal figures like George Padmore. This period was crucial for developing his unique synthesis of Marxist internationalism and unyielding anti-imperialism.

His literary and theoretical output constitutes a formidable arsenal for the left. His seminal work, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938), is not merely a historical account but a pioneering materialist analysis that positioned the enslaved Africans of Haiti as the most advanced revolutionary force of their age. James masterfully demonstrated how their successful insurrection was a central event in the making of the modern world, a direct challenge to bourgeois historiography and a timeless lesson in mass revolutionary praxis. In World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International (1937), he provided a critical analysis of the Communist International, tracing its development and its challenges in fostering a genuine global revolutionary movement. His philosophical rigour is further displayed in works like Notes on Dialectics (1948), a demanding study aimed at training the revolutionary mind in a dynamic, non-mechanistic understanding of Marxist theory, focusing on the self-mobilising potential of the working class. Even his cultural criticism, such as Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (1953), written during his unjust detention on Ellis Island, served as a radical exegesis, reading classic literature as an allegory for the alienating forces of capitalist modernity.

James’s political activism was as innovative as his writing. In the United States, he worked within and through various Marxist organisations, consistently focusing on the autonomous power of the working class. With collaborators, he produced groundbreaking analyses like The American Worker, which documented the everyday resistance on the shop floor, from wildcat strikes to subtle acts of sabotage, seeing in these actions the inherent rebellion against capital and the seeds of a future socialist society. His commitment was always to the self activity of the people, whom he viewed as the true authors of history.

His Pan-Africanist work was the international extension of this principle. James was a key intellectual architect of the 1945 Fifth Pan African Congress in Manchester, a historic gathering that marked a decisive turn from petitioning to a doctrine of mass anti colonial struggle. He served as a mentor and influence to a generation of independence leaders, most notably Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, imparting a vision of liberation rooted in popular sovereignty and socialist development. Throughout his later years, James remained an engaged interlocutor for liberation movements across Africa, the Caribbean, and within the Black diaspora, seeing in their struggles the same spirit of self-determination he had chronicled in San Domingo.

The legacy of C.L.R. James is a living, breathing guide for contemporary struggles. He taught that the revolutionary energy of the oppressed, particularly the Black working class in the colonies and metropoles, is the primary motor force for overturning the imperialist world order. He understood socialism as the direct, democratic rule of the working people themselves, and he approached culture as a vital terrain of ideological contestation and potential liberation. On the anniversary of his birth, we honour James not as a relic of the past but as a comrade whose work remains an essential compass for navigating the ongoing battles against capitalism, racism, and imperialist domination. His life reaffirms that the collective struggle for a just and equitable world is the only history worth making.

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Iran has joined the revolutionary wave sweeping the world with a national uprising against the capitalist dictatorship of the Ayatollahs. The protests erupted on December 28, 2025, following the collapse of Iran’s currency, the Rial, which devalued by 69% against the dollar, trading at 1,370,000 Rials. Fed up with the soaring prices of basic goods, which rose by 42.2% in 2025, the people began an uprising that has been met with police repression for several days. The unrest began with merchants in the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, the capital, but quickly spread to Malard in Tehran province, Kara, Kerman, Zanyan, Hamadan, and Qeshm Island. University students joined the protests in Beheshti, Khajeh Nasir, Sharif, Amir Kabir, and at the Isfahan University of Technology. People chanted “Death to the dictator” in the streets, referring to Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Ayatollahs’ capitalist dictatorship.

The uprising of the Grand Bazaar merchants is a highly significant event in the class struggle because it represents a crucial sector of the middle class, which has sustained the Ayatollah regime for decades. Several Iranian unions have also joined the mobilizations, including those of teachers, truck drivers, and bus drivers, as well as the gold and iron guilds in the bazaars and in the provinces of Kurdistan and Khorasan. Security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters in Tehran, while residents of Malard, 45 kilometers east of the capital, clashed with armed security forces on motorcycles. However, the regime is failing to quell this third revolution taking place in the country. We Marxists support the struggle of the Iranian people: Long live the revolution in Iran! Down with the capitalist dictatorship of the Ayatollahs!

A revolution against the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs

The revolution in Iran is part of a global revolutionary process unfolding across five continents, a third wave sweeping through Turkey, Serbia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Morocco, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, France, the Ukrainian national revolution, Syria, Rojava, the Palestinian national liberation intifada, and more. The Iranian revolution is a slap in the face to those who claim a rise in fascism and the far right worldwide, because it strikes at one of the oldest dictatorships in the world, which is also the political center of the reactionary Islamic fundamentalist movement that has dominated the Middle East for decades.

However, the revolutionary process shaking Iran did not begin with these mobilizations of December 2025. It began in 2019 with a revolution called the “Persian Spring” and continued with the uprising of 2022. In other words, the current revolution in Iran is a February revolution, in Nahuel Moreno’s definition, a recurring February, because it constitutes the third uprising of the people against the dictatorship. We at Marx International have been arguing that a Second Arab Spring has been underway in the Middle East since 2019, because the “Persian Spring” of 2019 occurred in conjunction with the uprising in Iraq against the government supported by Islamic fundamentalism, and against the government of Lebanon supported by Hezbollah. That is to say, that revolutionary wave of 2019 began to target the fundamentalist Islamic leadership, driven essentially by the people’s weariness with the Shiite clergy, a retrograde and medieval religious current, who live in luxury just like the Vatican officials.

The mobilizations of merchants in the Grand Bazaar signify a rupture among sectors that have traditionally supported Islamic fundamentalism. At the same time, the Bazaar protests converged with actions by sectors of the working class, such as the sugar workers of Shush, who continued their demonstrations demanding unpaid wages, job security, and the reinstatement of their dismissed colleagues, and the railway workers of Dorud, who extended their strikes against privatization and job insecurity. Social workers, drivers contracted in strategic sectors like oil and gas, and miners from Takab also demonstrated, along with pensioners who mobilized in Tehran, Ahvaz, Isfahan, Rasht, and Kermanshah against the collapse of their purchasing power and access to healthcare.

Images quickly went viral showing a lone protester confronting security forces, evoking memories of the Tiananmen Square protests in China. The government, led by Pezeshkian, announced measures to appease the public, such as a “food basket” and a “bonus” for basic foodstuffs, but people fear hyperinflation that would severely impact working families, who have seen food prices rise by more than 70% and medical expenses by around 50%. Rising fuel prices, announced tax increases, and austerity measures have fueled expectations of further price hikes, leading businesses to raise prices, restrict sales, or even close down altogether.

Iran’s monetary collapse is part of the global crisis of capitalism. The bailouts and financial rescues carried out by imperialist governments have triggered inflation worldwide, which erupts unevenly across countries and regions. In Iran, the ruling classes are not affected by inflation as the working classes are, thus exacerbating social inequality under the Ayatollah regime, just as it does in all capitalist countries around the world. Imperialist sanctions against Iran have damaged the country’s economy, but the measures taken by the Ayatollah regime, which protects the profits and privileges of wealthy regime officials, have done far more damage to the people. The revolution is against the Ayatollah dictatorship, and we must support it with all our strength.

The Second Arab Spring and the Third Intifada are a single revolution

The current revolution is a continuation of the “Persian Spring,” which erupted in response to a 200% increase in fuel prices and then escalated into a protest against the current government and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on November 15, 2019. Within hours, the protests had spread to 21 cities. They began as peaceful gatherings, but the government’s repressive measures sparked a revolt against the entire government, which responded by killing approximately 450 Iranian citizens. Protesters destroyed 731 government banks, including the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, nine Islamic religious centers, and toppled propaganda of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, including statues. Fifty government military bases were also targeted by protesters.

The chants of the protesters were directed against the government and its leaders, with people shouting: “The clergy must be lost,” “Death to the dictator,” “Death to the Islamic Republic,” “The supreme leader lives like a god. We, the people, live like beggars.” Thus began the Second Arab Spring, which, unlike the First Arab Spring of 2011, was directed against the clerical leaders of Islamic fundamentalism, also demonstrating the development of the political revolution process against all the established directions of the mass movement.

The second revolution in Iran was sparked by the murder of activist Mahsa Amini on September 14, 2022. She died after being detained and beaten by the Guidance Patrols, Iran’s Islamic religious police, for refusing to wear a hijab covering her head and face, which religious authorities deemed “inappropriate.” Protests began in the Kurdistan Province cities of Saqqez, Sanandaj, Divandarreh, Baneh, and Bijar, and then spread to Tehran, Hamedan, Mashhad, Sabzevar, Amol, Isfahan, Kerman, Shiraz, Tabriz, Rasht, Sari, Karaj, Tonekabon, Arak, Ilam, and many other cities, resulting in the deaths of 66 members of the security forces, 516 protesters, and the arrest of more than 19,200 people.

The second Iranian revolution was also part of the global women’s revolution against capitalist, sexist, and patriarchal oppression. Women’s protests against the mandatory hijab began, but the “Guidance Patrols” systematically repressed them. Following Mahsa’s death, a national strike was called, stretching from the Kurdistan province to Tehran on September 18. Political parties in Iranian Kurdistan and Kurdish civil and political activists declared a general strike on Monday. Behind the movement the dictatorship emerged weakened, and Islamic fundamentalism suffered defeat after defeat, including the loss of Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guards in Syria at the hands of the guerrillas who liberated the country from Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship. As part of the Second Arab Spring, the secular guerrilla movement arose in the West Bank, leading to the Third Intifada against Israeli Zionism.

In the midst of the Third Intifada, which defeated Zionist troops in October 2013, Israel bombed Iran. But Iran’s military response exacerbated Israel’s crisis because it caused enormous destruction and a mass exodus of Israeli settlers and citizens. Israel’s ” iron shield” failed; bombs rained down on Tel Aviv, and several demolished neighborhoods of the capital began to resemble Gaza. Israel’s brief “Twelve-Day War” against Iran shattered the myth of Israel’s “invincibility” and exposed the vulnerabilities, growing crisis, and weakness of the Zionist state.

However, the treacherous policies of the Iranian bourgeoisie, incapable of consistently leading the Palestinian people’s national liberation struggle, created the conditions for Iran’s new crisis. Hamas supported the Syrian revolution and welcomed the fall of Bashar al-Assad, confronting Hezbollah, which already revealed the deep fissures and crises within Islamic fundamentalism. Now, the Iranian revolution continues to fuel the Second Arab Spring, unleashing forces of new activism in the Middle East that emerge from Islamic fundamentalist currents, and which we urge to embrace Marxism. We, the Marxist International, support the revolution in Iran and stand for the overthrow of the Ayatollahs’ dictatorship as part of the struggle for global socialism.

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Nous avons été informés de la situation de Lyes Touati, membre de la direction du Parti socialiste des travailleurs (PST, suspendu depuis plusieurs mois – depuis janvier 2022 – par la dictature dans le cadre de la répression du Hirak), en Algérie.

Celui-ci est incarcéré depuis lundi 15 décembre 2025, et le 30 décembre sa situation sera examinée. La prolongation de sa détention préventive pourrait être décidé pour plusieurs mois.

Nous connaissons Lyes et son organisation, et nous sommes assurés que les accusations qui pèsent contre lui sont totalement irréalistes : il est accusé d’être proche du mouvement MAK, un mouvement indépendantiste kabyle, dont les positions sont opposées à celles du PST. En particulier, ce mouvement est sioniste.

Le camarade Lyes Touati est militant du mouvement social, des luttes ouvrières, du mouvement écologiste, de la solidarité avec la Palestine. Il risque 10 ans de prison du fait des accusations qui pèsent sur lui.

Cette menace contre Lyes Touati s’inscrit dans une répression plus globale. Lyes Touati est clairement un détenu d’opinion, comme il en existe des centaines, en Algérie et dans bien d’autres pays.

Il faut participer à la campagne internationale de solidarité, afin que des centaines d’autres organisations – syndicats, partis, associations, collectifs… – et de personnalités dans le monde entier prennent position pour sa libération.

La rédaction d’Aplutsoc.

Il est possible de participer à différentes actions :

• Signer la pétition : https://liberte-lyes.org . Elle s’y affiche dans différentes langues.
• Partager cette pétition largement.
• Participer à des courriers ou des délégations auprès des ambassades algériennes pour demander la libération de Lyes.
• Publier des vidéos ou photos expliquant la situation et la nécessité de se mobiliser.

Contact avec le comité de soutien, dans la langue que vous souhaitez : contact@liberte-lyes.org

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https://aplutsoc.org/2025/12/26/liberez-lyes-tou

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