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Neither labor nor law: Infopacket from the movement in France

Submitted by orange.ruffy on Jul 1 2016 18:25

A packet of texts and news translated from the movement currently underway in France. Many of the texts are from Lundi Matin but it also includes links to many other movement resources. This was assembled by La Onda, a communist group in LA.

Brexit vote: another sign of global capitalism's deepening crisis

Submitted by Steven. on Jun 29 2016 17:50

Analysis of the UK EU referendum result, how it came about and how the working class standing up for itself has been squeezed off the agenda completely.

Making sense of the Brexit tide of reaction and the reality of the racist vote - Andrew Flood

Submitted by Steven. on Jun 27 2016 16:21
Nigel Farage in front of a Leave campaign poster

Detailed analysis of the UK referendum vote in favour of leaving the European Union.

14 observations on Brexit and Lexit in the UK EU membership referendum

Submitted by Steven. on Jun 23 2016 12:53

Analysis of the UK European Union referendum, and the "left exit" campaigns from the anarchist Workers Solidarity Movement in Ireland.

European Union referendum: more capitalist choices to reject - Communist Workers Organisation

Submitted by Steven. on Jun 22 2016 20:10
EU referendum

A look at the referendum on UK membership of the European Union, and whether either side offers anything to the working class. Written before the referendum date was announced but still relevant today.

Brexit for tanks? The EU and the working class

Submitted by deathspiritcommunist on Jun 13 2016 05:52

Rage Against Capital takes a look at the EU and what it means for the working classes and the oppressed internationally as well as critiquing the CPGB-ML's endorsement of Brexit.

Russian anarchist Svetlana Tsvetkova sentenced to year of corrective labor for leaflet about police

Submitted by S2W on Jun 5 2016 11:14
Svetlana Tsvetkova.

31 may 2016 Taganrog City Court Judge Georgy Serebryanikov sentenced 31-year-old local resident Elizaveta Tsvetkova to a year of corrective labor for disseminating leaflets criticizing the police, reports Caucasian Knot. As published on the court’s website, the verdict stipulates that fifteen percent of Tsvetkova’s wages will be docked by the state for a year. The activist has also been charged 6,000 rubles in court costs.

Notes on the movement against the loi du travail, by a waitress

Submitted by Red Marriott on Jun 3 2016 18:49

A street level account by a participant in the ongoing movement against the new French labour law, written in May 2016.

The Expropriated Bank of Gràcia: One More Step Forward in the Strategy of Tension – Argelaga

Submitted by Alias Recluse on May 28 2016 19:57

A report from Barcelona (published May 24, 2016) on the eviction of squatters from an expropriated former bank that was being used as a libertarian social center, the role of the City Government led by the former indignado, now Mayor, Ada Colau, in the affair, the resistance mounted by the social center’s supporters, and the political implications of the fact that Colau’s party, Barcelona en Comú (“Barcelona in Common”), despite her reassurances to the contrary, has now become a responsible party to repression and is providing a fig-leaf for a slowly intensifying “strategy of tension” that heralds further authoritarian developments for Spain.

Russian anarcho-syndicalists commemorate the Spanish revolution

Submitted by Karetelnik on May 23 2016 06:09

A group of activists of the Russian section of the International Workers' Association (IWA-AIT) worked together to organize an exhibit and the presentation of scientific papers to mark the 80th year since the Spanish Revolution. The venue was the Centre of Social and Political History (GPIB, a branch of the State Public Historical Library) in Moscow.