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Capital's utopia and dystopia: refugee/migrant crisis

Submitted by hamid.moradei on Sep 25 2015 11:19
Refugee/Migrant Crisis

Hamid Moradei with a working class analysis of the current refugee crisis.

Wear the white poppy with pride

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Sep 21 2015 08:23
cooperative womens guild members with white poppy wreath

Labour MPs have urged Jeremy Corbyn not to wear a white poppy on Remembrance Day. Symbols like that matter, this article argues

We’ll turn Shahrokh Zamani's death into a banner of workers solidarity and unity

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Sep 20 2015 05:03
Shahrokh Zamani

This statement was put out by workers’ organisations in Iran after the suspicious death on 12 September of Shahrokh Zamani, a trade union activist who was in the fifth year of a prison sentence. Iranian friends are asking that it be circulated as widely as possible

Public inquiry on undercover policing: urgent deadline to register as core participant

Submitted by past tense on Sep 15 2015 22:27
Undercover police posing as activists

Public pressure has forced the Home Secretary into announcing a Public Inquiry into undercover policing in the UK. If you have, or it's quite likely you have been, involved in a campaign/activist group/movement that was infliltrated by undercover police operatives in the last few decades, now is the time to register as a Core Participant in the Inquiry...

Alcoy bakery workers strike

Submitted by Karetelnik on Sep 13 2015 23:02
Alcoy strike of bakery workers

The Inter-Professional (cross-trade) Union of the CNT (Spanish section of the International Workers' Association IWA-AIT) in the city of Alcoy (pop. 60,000) has been engaged in an indefinite general strike of workers of the Mariel Bakery and its retail outlets since August 10 2015.

Finland: Schools to close, rail network to shut down in austerity protest

Submitted by S2W on Sep 13 2015 22:53
Finnish public transport

Finnish teachers are set to join the biggest labour movement demonstration in decades on Friday, shutting down schools and daycare centres across the country as they protest in Helsinki against government austerity measures.

Neo-Nazi mob riots at anti-immigration protest

Submitted by Anonymous on Sep 13 2015 10:44
Anti-fascists blocking route of fascist march in Dover

Around 200 neo-Nazis and racists rioted in Dover at an anti-immigration protest yesterday. Clashes with anti-fascists early in the day saw people on both sides hospitalised.

International left distracted by shiny new object

Submitted by Scott Jay on Sep 13 2015 03:57

Jeremy Corbyn has already helped Leftists around the world forget their uncritical support of SYRIZA

Moscow: Picket at the Oblast Duma

Submitted by Karetelnik on Sep 12 2015 15:37
KRAS-MAT pickets at Moscow Oblast Duma

On September 3 2015 activists of KRAS, the Russian Section of the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT), took part in picketing the building of the Moscow Oblast Duma (the parliament of the Moscow region). The picket was conducted by groups of pensioners from various cities and by social organizations of Moscow and its Oblast.

The deepening capitalist crisis: From blood and dirt to much worse

Submitted by Malatesta Black on Sep 9 2015 08:58

The recent fall of the Chinese and global stock markets are symptoms of a much deeper capitalist crisis that first erupted in the 1970s. Indeed, this crisis has not been overcome, but has rather given rise to speculative bubbles that often burst. This article, therefore, looks at the reasons behind the Chinese stock markets crashing, along with looking at how states have intervened again to try and shelter the ruling classes from the fallout.