French police shot a man dead in Paris on Thursday of last week. Their version of events rapidly went around the world’s media.
Over 250 refugees were deported from Beirut airport in Lebanon to Syria on Friday of last week.
French authorities were set to bulldoze huge swathes of the refugees’ “jungle” shantytown in Calais by the end of this week at just days’ notice.
Racist politicians are trying to use horrific New Year’s Eve attacks on women in German cities to push back against solidarity with refugees. Their attempts are also boosting racist groups.
Dozens of women were sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve in Germany. But rather than connecting the events to everyday sexist violence, politicians and the media have turned to stoking up racism. Silke Stöckle and Marion Wegscheider respond in this article for socialist group Marx21
Britain’s military intervention in Syria has been exposed as a farce. Westminster’s warmongers argued that it was essential.
Protests erupted in Saudi Arabia and across the region after the Saudi regime executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr last Saturday.