Eleven Corsican activists detained by the French police and transferred to Paris

The arrests took place yesterday and Aiutu Paisanu held a rally in front of the the police station of Bastia where they were arrested. Today they have been transferred to Paris. Femu in Corsica has  strongly denounced "the arrest of 11 young Corsican people on the part of hooded anti-terrorist policies, strongly armed and using deliberately violent and traumatic methods." These behaviors continue the nationalist party in the government, "refer Corsica to the most painful hours of its contemporary history."

"The state has a heavy responsibility in the current situation, refusing to take into account the majority aspiration expressed by universal suffrage, closing the door to any political solution, reactive the logic of the conflict while Corsica had created the conditions for appearing and dialogue" .


On March 10 this year, residential and real estate homes were attacked in Piana, Taglio-Isolaccio, Patrimoni i Ville Di Pietrabugno. The procedure was with gas bottles and shots.
There were also two explosive charges on April 1 in front of the public finance centers of Toga and the center of Bastia.
No organization took the actions.
On the other hand, last October, a group of five hooded men announced the reactivation of the FLNC (Front of National Liberation of Corsica).
Since then there has been no attack.

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Scottish indy activists display banners around iconic landmarks in London

Scottish activists today displayed banners around iconic landmarks in London today. The banner tour ended at the Tower Bridge. Aye Aberdeen explains the action this way:

After the success of an epic 500 mile tour of every Tory held constituency in Scotland, Aye Aberdeen is once again assisting Jack Elphinstone and friends to “go the extra 500 miles” and take our message direct to the heart of UK Government in London.
We bring you the #NC500, a tour of London landmarks with two giant banners on the final Sunday prior to #GE2019.
We hope to capture the attention of London and broadcast our message back to Scotland and across the UK.
Our aim is to stop people voting Conservative and motivate them to vote for other parties. We will only be content if no Conservatives are elected in Scotland next Thursday. The SNP are close to replacing them in every Tory held seat in Scotland although we will need the help of England and Wales to prevent a Conservative majority.
Aye Aberdeen along with Jack Elphinstone, a concerned Aberdeen South resident have the following key messages which should resonate with voters in Scotland and across the UK:
a) Boris Johnson is a proven liar, he should not be trusted to govern the UK for 5 more years.
b) The Scottish Tories have sold Scotland out by backing Brexit against the wishes of the majority of their constituents. If re-elected they will hand Boris a blank cheque for hard Brexit and a mandate to continue to implement cruel and damaging policies over the next 5 years.
c) We need to protect our health services by stopping the Tories leaving the world's largest trading block therefore handing the future of our healthcare to Donald Trump. The Scottish Health Service will be sacrificed as Boris begs for a trade deal to sustain exports. Westminster has already revoked procurement powers from the Scottish Parliament for 7 years.
d) Scotland hasn't voted Conservative in over 60 years, yet we have been subjected to 36 years of Tory government in that time. The Conservative government has no mandate to remove Scotland from the EU against our will.
e) Keep Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands by making sure you vote SNP in the general election on December the 12th. Scotland already has a mandate for a second independence referendum, let's reinforce it with a resounding majority.
We call on like-minded people in England and Wales not to vote Conservative, please don’t hand the Tories control of all our futures for the next 5 years.

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Euskal Herria Bai General Assembly

The political movement EH Bai held its Biltzar Nagusia (General Assembly) on December 7th in Ustaritz.  The Northern Basque organization defends the rights of the national minority under French rule in the so called Iparralde (Northern Basque Country). On the eve of local elections to be held on 15 and 22 March 2020 and  in full weekend of mobilizations for the climate and in a context of social struggles.


Euskal Herria Bai (Basque Country Yes, EH Bai) was founded in 2007 by Abertzaleen Batasuna, Eusko Alkartasuna and Batasuna (being replaced by Sortu in 2013). On 2014.12.20 the coalition transformed itself to a single movement where the parties could not control more than a third of the direction. It now has half a thousand members, 150 local councillors as well as 34 councillors of the Communauté d'agglomération Pays Basque (CAPB).

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Rally in Bilbo for a Basque Republic

The coalition-federation Euskal Herria Bildu* attracted 3,700 people in Bilbo to rally against the Spanish constitution in its 41st birthday. Under the slogan ‘Euskal Errepublika!’ a banner with the same sentend being carried only by woman the demonstration ended with some MPs, all of them women, speaking to the crowd as Mertxe Aizpurua who said:
«We are more and we go hand in hand to defend the right of self-determination, to defend economic and social policies that care for and protect people and to achieve the freedom of all political prisoners and refugees».

* Formed by Eusko Alkastasuna, Alternativba, Sortu and independents.

In the afternoon the new political organization Jarki held its first public initiative with a  demonstration in Durango (Bizkaia), under the slogan Euskal Herri langileak apurketa!. It denounced the "denial and imposition" of the Spanish Constitution. For the independence and socialism of the Basque Country.

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Galician National Block Human Chain against the "exhausted" Spanish constitution

A human chain in front of the Galician People Museum in Santiago de Compostela has been held by the Galician National Block today to protest the 41st birthday of the Spanish constituition. The BNG claims the "right" of the people to change the Constitution and calls Fascist Vox party "abortion of the PP". Vox is reallu formed by former PP members. The PP was founded by Franco's ministers and is the second biggest party in Spain and the one ruling Galicia.


BNG's leader Ana Pontón has criticized the Constitution for considering it an "exhausted" framework that has not served to solve the problems of Galicia. He added that it is a text "of the privileges of a few", among which he has included the Bourbon dynasty, a "undemocratic and male chauvinist" institution.

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British police attacked with suspected grenade in west Belfast

Police in west Belfast are at the scene of an overnight attack on officers. The incident happened in the Milltown Row area shortly after 2 o'clock on Wednesday December 4th morning. Officers were in the Falls Road area on a routine patrol when their land rover was struck with a suspected grenade.
Chief Superintendent Jonathan Roberts said: "A loud bang was then heard and the police car made its way to a place of safety.
"Thankfully none of the officers inside the vehicle were injured and no damage was noted to the car."
A police operation was immediately put into place to ensure the safety of residents in the area.
The remnants of the suspected grenade have been taken away for forensic testing.

The Continuity IRA has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack on police in west Belfast.

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First official step in Sámi reconciliation commission

After years of negotiations and planning in the Sámi Parliament, the Finnish government has agreed to the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for Sámi peoples in Finland.

When formed, the independent five-member commission will closely investigate the historical background of what the indigenous inhabitants of Lapland consider the decades-long oppression of the Sámi peoples at the hands of the Finnish government.

On Wednesday the government held an evening meeting to discuss the mandate prepared for the coming commission. The government concluded that the designation process for the commission could now begin.

The Finnish government has prepared the commission's mandate throughout 2019 together with the Sámi Parliament and the Skolt Sámi village meetings. The TRC designation and strategy process will begin once the mandate has been reviewed by both Sámi assemblies in December, the government announced.


Sámi Parliament chair Tiina Sanila-Aikio said she considers the government's decision to be a significant step in the formation of the commission, after waiting a long time for a concrete response.

Skolt Sámi representative Veikko Feodoroff echoed the sentiment.

"This is an important issue. We've worked very hard to get the commission off the ground in Finland."

After government adjourned on Wednesday Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo went on social media to say she was pleased that the TRC process has taken a step forward. The Finnish government held a total of 29 TRC hearings across the Sámi region and in various Finnish cities in 2018. A total of 300 Sámi people took part in these talks in person or via email, representing some 2.5 percent of Finland's Sámi minority.


"Sámi people have had a weak status in Finland in many ways. The government has not respected Sámi land rights, and Sámi people were forced to integrate into Finnish culture all the way up to the 1970s. Finland has been scorned by international groups concerning its treatment of the Sámi, even in recent years," Ohisalo said.

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Aontú: " it is wrong to stop developments or progress on those issues because of the Irish language act.”

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has challenged the wisdom of a Sinn Féin demand that an Irish language act must first be conceded by the DUP before the party would agree to reinstatement of the Northern Executive and Assembly.

Mr Tóibín was speaking in Belfast on Tuesday when he launched the Aontú Westminster general election manifesto.

Aontú which campaigns centrally on being anti-abortion, and seeking Irish unity and economic justice, is standing seven candidates in Foyle, East Derry, West Tyrone, South Down, West Belfast, South Belfast and Newry and Armagh.

The election is being held against the backdrop of a crisis in the Northern Ireland health service. At present there are 300,000 people on waiting lists and 10,000 outpatient appointments and surgeries cancelled in Belfast due to industrial action by nurses and other hospital workers.

Asked was Sinn Féin right to stay out of Stormont until it had a guaranteed Irish language act – one of its key demands – Mr Tóibín replied that such an act must be legislated for. But he then added there was shock “in many ways that the Irish language is being used to hold so many other really important issues hostage”.

Mr Tóibín said “there are bread and butter, life and death concerns that are consuming the people of the North of Ireland . . . it is wrong to stop developments or progress on those issues because of the Irish language act.”

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Tsunami Veneto joined by 2,000 people

Success of the Venetian Party (Partito dei Veneti) with the so called "Tsunami Veneto" bringing together over 2,000 participants on November 30th. Bustling rooms for the launch of the Veneto Party which took place simultaneously in the seven Veneto provinces. Hundreds of people including administrators, entrepreneurs but also many ordinary people curious to understand the sense of the birth of the Party of the Venetians found themselves in the various locations scattered throughout the Veneto. More than 50 speakers denounced the failure of national parties in terms of autonomy and decentralization and launched their only credible alternative: a uniquely Venetian Party to defend only the interests of the Venetians.

The Regional Coordinator Giacomo Mirto commented enthusiastically: "We have achieved the goal. Thanks to the extraordinary work of our provincial coordinators we were able to fill the auditoriums in less than three weeks, moving hundreds of people in each province. The road is marked, and it is the successful one carried out by the SVP in Sud-Tirol or by the SNP in Scotland or that of regionalist parties that have succeeded concretely in retaining their economic resources in their territories. The PdV will therefore be the reference party for all those Venetians who want self-government and who in 2017 voted massly for fiscal autonomy, never arrived because of the failed national parties. From today it will no longer be possible to pretend that a Venetian alternative does not exist, the only alternative: the Party of Venetians ".

Speakers included Riccardo Szumsky, a former League and mayor of Santa Lucia di Piave, who has harsh and firm words: "It is enough to celebrate oneself in the Region, things do not change from Rome". And again, Simonetta Rubinato, former PD senator: "The Italian Constitution will be our weapon. Italian uniformity kills territorial singularities ".

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Demonstration in Paris to defend the teaching of lesser used languages

About a thousand people gathered yesterday Saturday, November 30, 2019, in Paris, in front the Ministry of Education. Coming from Brittany, Corsica, Occitania, Alsace, the Basque Country, Northern Catalonia ... The demonstration against the reform of high school and baccalaureate implemented last September by Minister Blanquer and who weakens the learning of the languages of the countries.

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