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Counterfire

Samantha

Dear , One week into 2025 and it’s clear this year is going to be as politically tumultuous as the last. The continuing genocide in Gaza, the growth of the international far right, economic decline and a rapidly deteriorating climate are just some of the pressing issues that will shape the year ahead. To meet the challenges we face, we have to be as prepared as we can be. Counterfire has organised a series of Revolution! events around the country to bring together activists and discuss, analyse and strategise. The…

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The Tears of Our Children: The First Newsletter (2025)

Samantha

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A study came out in December that made me cry. Titled Needs Study: Impact of War in Gaza on Children with Vulnerabilities and Families, it was conducted by the Community Training Centre for Crisis Management (CTCCM) in Gaza. Written in a clinical style, nothing about the language should have impacted me in the way that it did. But the study’s findings were shocking. Here are some of the cold facts: Put simply, every single child in Gaza feels…

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Sri Lanka: Landslide election victory of new president and party raises high public hopes, but there are no illusions

Samantha

Don Samantha, Asia Commune  Sri Lanka is a small island in the Indian Ocean located southeast of India. Its surface area is 65,610 km2. The country has a population of 22.2 million. The languages spoken there are mainly Sinhalese and Tamil. The English language has also been used there since the period of the British colonial empire. The country is multi-confessional: there are Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Benefiting from India’s struggle for independence, Sri Lanka was liberated from British colonization on February 4, 1948. From that date until the…

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