One step forward… Sudan: towards a secular State. A popular revolution born in December 2018 brought an end to a military-religious dictatorship that began after a coup in 1989. Dictatorship had forbidden political parties and trade unions, established an awful dictatorship, delivered the already particularly poor country to internal and Read more…
Modern Day Crusaders is a well-researched exposition of well-funded religious extremists who seek to undermine basic rights, especially for women and LGBTI people. It was written this year and is revealing and unsettling. Unfortunately, it is only available in English. Keith Porteous Wood (NSS – IAFT/IAFT spokesperson)
Call in three languages
Llamamiento en tres idiomas
Appel en trois langues
(actualisé le 16 décembre 2019)
Call
For working internationally on the history of Free Thought
The undersigned, attached in different capacities to the study of the history of Free-Thought, secularism, rationalism and democracy, met 22 June 2019 in Paris on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the foundation of IRELP [Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes de la Libre Pensée]. (more…)
Hector is a 15-year-old student who has been fighting for three years now for religious symbols to be removed from her college in Dos Torres (Cordoba). His perseverance and efforts could count on the support of his parents, friends or Andalusia Laïque , but neither the educational team, the Council of Education took the appropriate measures.
Dear friends, dear comrades,
The Congress of French Free Thought submits a proposal to all associations of Free Thought, Humanists, Atheists, Skeptics, Seculars to form an International Circle of Rationalist Exegesis to study dogmas and religions.
Attached is this call in different languages.
If you are interested in this proposal write to: contact@iaftailp.org
Best Regards
Christian Eyschen, AILP spokesperson (more…)
Ladies and gentlemen, Dear friends, Dear friends, My Sisters and Brothers, I bring you the fraternal greetings of the International Association of Free Thought and the French Federation of Free Thought. The international question has always been important in the activity of Free Thought on all fronts, on all continents. Read more…
Paris, July 9. 2019
Dear Friends
Dear Comrades,
As you probably know, The International Association of Freethougt is born in Oslo in Norway, on the 10th of August 2011.
The association exists today on every continent and gather a great number of atheist, freethought and secular associations. It is represented by eleven spokespersons and an international Council with forty members, from all the continents. The three languages practised are french, english and spanish. (more…)
The next day of May 1, an anarchist companion was violently stabbed at the headquarters of Le Monde Libertaire and Radio Libertaire, in the Publico bookstore (Paris XIème). An attempted murder investigation is ongoing. This library is clearly identified as an anarchist cultural place. It is a place where you Read more…
Church Crimes and paedophilia: The Church must be accountable to the Justice of men!
A new week, A new Cardinal condemned. On 7th March, the highest official of the Catholic Church in France, the Archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin, was condemned for not reporting the repeated sexual abuses committed by priests on 70 minors. Philippe Barbarin was sentenced to six months in prison with a suspended sentence. He will appeal, but nevertheless indicated his resignation to the pope. (more…)
