Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Greek railroad workers as an example

‘What the Belarus regime is doing is basically human trafficking,’ a French government spokesman said on 10 November. A few days later, interior minister Gérald Darmanin ordered French police to dismantle the migrant camps outside Calais and Grande-Synthe; they slashed the tents with knives. And on 24 November, 27 migrants drowned trying to cross the Channel. Is that a crime difficult to solve?

“ Europe’s pathological fear of migrants complements the Polish government’s patriotic self-indulgence — all evident to cunning Lukashenko, clear-eyed enough to see their failings, and exploit them.” The hollowness of European humanitarianism

 Record number of journalists jailed worldwide

  Free union leaders and activists

Andrew Smith of  Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)  said: "By training and collaborating with despots, dictatorships and human rights abusers, the UK risks making itself complicit in the abuses that are being inflicted." “Risks making itself complicit”? Andrew Smith is either naive or a liberal idiot. UK ‘providing training for repressive regimes’

Signs of alternative power with an opposition that doesn’t want to take power! Belarus on the brink: what now? And as Volodymyry Artiukh wrote : “  Police violence, the lack of central ideological and strategic leadership among the protesters, and the decentralized nature of the protests will determine their further development. At the same time, the ruling elite showed no signs of a split, the security apparatus and the bureaucracy generally remained loyal, although there have been signs of hesitation at the lower and regional levels (with several state media journalists and police officers resigning). There is no central coordination center of the protest, no local centers, no visible leaders on the street, no identifiable political groups. I believe that some already existing political groups are taking part in the protests, but they are not visible as separate ‘tactical units’: they are either disoriented, or deeply disguised, or participating as individuals.” Partis...

Anyone for regime change?

Via   pracownicza demokracja “The strike movement in Belarus is spreading instantly. Much more bets are on strike now. Some of the protesters were released and the  police stopped beating (so far). On strike m. in Minsk Electrical Factory, Belkard in Grodno, Grodno-Nitrogen, Belaruskali in Salihorsk, MTZ tractor factory (here the strike committee was established), MMZ, Kieramin and many more. Once again we see that organized workers and mass strikes are the most powerful weapon in the fight for democracy. Today is the 40th anniversary of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard. What is happening in Belarus at the moment is also part of our - employee and international - history... and a great example for today for employees and employees in Poland.”

In an authoritarian regime labelled as "Europe's last dictatorship," a Canadian-owned German company represses trade union rights. Note that Germany and Canada are "democracies."