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Beyond the political assessment made of the Proces, one cannot be neutral in the face of the violation of constant rights, the degradation to unthinkable limits of the so-called “rule of law” and the will of the State to employ all repressive means (both police as judicial) to deny Catalonia the right to freely decide its future.

The EL supports the mobilizations of the people in Latin America against the governments of the right-wing and dictatorships of Lenin Moreno in Ecuador and Sebastian Piñera in Chile. Both governments caused tens of deaths, hundreds of wounded and thousands of arrests.

Turkish President Erdogan is massively violating international law with his attack on the majority of the Kurdish region of Rojava. US President Trump, with his de facto approval of the invasion, has made this escalation possible and it is the duty of the EU and its member states to oppose a further escalation of the war.

Turkey’s military operation launched yesterday will be a new ring of false policies that have been resulted in disasters followed in Syria. The US government uses both Kurds and Turkey as part of its purpose in the region. Sometimes as an alliance and sometimes as in the conflict, he is trying to control both powers.The solution in Syria can only be solved in the axis of democracy, freedom and independence which will be a joint decision of all Syrians in Syria’s unity.

The Party of the European Left considers a further form of violence and an antidemocratic behavior the application of the state of emergency in Ecuador, a decision taken against the Ecuadorian People as a response to the success of the national strike and the strong popular mobilizations carried out to protest against the reform of the labor market as agreed with the IMF.

Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament is the latest stage of a right-wing Tory coup that has been unfolding since the Brexit referendum in 2016. The suspension of parliament will presage a calamitous hard Brexit – very likely followed by a general election. Their plan is to turn Britain into a deregulated, cheap labour, low-tax, outpost with minimal workplace and environmental regulations.
To prevent that tragedy, Labour and the unions should call for a million-person march to Westminster to impose the re-opening of parliament. We must respond powerfully to reassert the commitment to democracy and to all our hard won rights.