Edwy Plenel

The author believed that Trump and Putin formed a tandem united by an unlimited quest for power, based on strength and predation, in his view. He described their alliance as unprecedented and wrote that the left should oppose it with its democratic and internationalist principles. https://t.co/y08XMMum8J #Trump #Poutine #Démocratie #FR #US #RU (translated)

The author presented the war waged by Russia as a war against civilians. He wrote that 20 people, including 3 children, had been killed on Saturday in Zaporijjia. He also reported 30 dead and 18 injured in an attack on a bus in Kramatorsk two days earlier, as well as 22 dead, including 5 children, after a cruise missile had struck an apartment building in Prylouky the day before. https://t.co/KXB8lLwYRF #Ukraine #Guerre #Civils #UA (translated)

The author wrote that voices from the left in France, Italy, and Germany continued to call for a reduction, or even an end, to support for Kyiv. He believed that what he described as defeatism benefited imperialisms, while Donald Trump, in his opinion, acted in concert with Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/y08XMMtOjb #Géopolitique #Solidarité #Ukraine #FR #IT #DE #UA #RU #IL (translated)

The author announced a special edition dedicated to Ukraine, which was supposed to address what he presented as the way Donald Trump "is giving Ukraine to Putin," the intensification of the Russian military offensive, and the abandonment of the Ukrainian people by part of the left. https://t.co/CHa3wygjM4 https://t.co/9JGwnPxfOy #Ukraine #Trump #Russie #UA #RU #US (translated)

The author wrote that the difficulties faced by Romain Choron, historian and officer, illustrated the state's attempts to tighten access to sensitive historical documents about the crimes committed by France in Algeria between 1954 and 1962. https://t.co/YHSxtTAh8C #Histoire #Algérie #Mémoire #DZ #FR (translated)

The author indicated that high school students from across France gathered in Paris on October 10 for their first national general assembly, dedicated to assessing their mobilization. He wrote that they wished to continue and strengthen their support for high schools in working-class neighborhoods, which he presented as more exposed to police violence. #Lycéens #Mobilisation #JusticeSociale #FR (translated)

The author indicated that in India, young people from a party he described through a dehumanizing comparison, as well as members of the opposition and trade unions, had converged on the capital on October 10 to denounce electoral fraud. He stated that the security forces had violently pushed them back. https://t.co/mqwzKsHpHz #Inde #Politique #Protestation #IN (translated)

The author claimed that Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin's biggest supporter. He added that a consistent anti-imperialism should oppose the ambitions of both Russia and the United States and support the resistance of the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression. https://t.co/LN8HvJeaVa #Ukraine #Poutine #Trump #UA #RU #US (translated)

The author reported that Ivan Safronov, a Russian journalist whom he described as a prisoner of conscience arrested in 2020 and held in Siberia, was re-reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo to better resist. He attributed these words to him: "to appreciate freedom." https://t.co/dBjLLs6ZuO #Liberté #DroitsHumains #VictorHugo #RU (translated)

The post indicated that the Russian journalist Ivan Safronov, arrested in 2020 and held in Siberia, was rereading *Les Misérables* by Victor Hugo to better resist. He compared himself to Jean Valjean and said he knew what captivity was and appreciated freedom. https://t.co/dBjLLs6rFg #Liberté #Résistance #JeanValjean #RU (translated)

The author stated that no youth social movement had been repressed in this way. He indicated that on the evening of October 8, after three weeks of mobilizations, 6,877 people had been placed in police custody, including 5,890 minors (85%), not counting the injured. https://t.co/ciAICdMrN2 #JusticePourLesEnfants #MobilisationJeunesse #DroitsDesMineurs #FR (translated)

The author mentioned new revelations from Mediapart concerning what he described as the persistent lie of Jordan Bardella. He stated that the investigation established a direct link, dating back to September 2013, between Bardella's official Twitter account and a Messenger conversation in which he allegedly spread anti-Semitic ideas. #JordanBardella #Mediapart #Antisémitisme #FR (translated)

The author indicated that thousands of people gathered on the evening of Thursday, October 8, in Madrid to pay tribute to Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old retiree who died the day before and a figure in the fight against real estate speculation, before the general strike scheduled for November 11.   https://t.co/ImHePkqR57 #Madrid #Hommage #Lutte #ES (translated)

The author reported that a Syrian exile had learned that his father, who disappeared during one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the Channel, had been buried as an unidentified person. He had, however, provided the authorities with all the necessary elements for his identification, he wrote. #Syrie #Exil #HumanRights #SY #FR (translated)

The post claimed that Antton Rouget, co-author of the Mediapart revelations about anti-Semitic writings by Jordan Bardella, was targeted by a violent campaign led by far-right circles. He accused them of seeking to discredit him in the face of the truth, as they supposedly always had. #Antisémitisme #ExtrêmeDroite #LibertédePresse #FR (translated)

The message announced that the first legislative elections in Israel since October 7 and the outbreak of the war in Gaza, described as genocidal, would take place on October 27. It referred to a freely accessible broadcast from Mediapart on the possible consequences of the vote for Palestinians. https://t.co/jnKh0qeyFD #Israël #Palestine #Élections #IL #PS (translated)

The author denounced police censorships that he qualified as illegal. He recalled that freedom of expression, including the right to contest, is a fundamental right and indicated that it is also stated and guaranteed to young people by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the French Education Code (2021). https://t.co/NWFGdlPZsw #LibertéDExpression #DroitsHumains #Jeunesse #FR #ONU (translated)

The message indicated that in Rennes, a social worker had been violently slapped by a police officer on the sidelines of the demonstration on October 6. It added that the victim had spoken out for the first time to Mediapart. https://t.co/o4HGCQPeUK #Rennes #Manifestation #Violence #FR (translated)