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Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers' deaths

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Aug 4 2016 08:27
Flowers on the Caspian shore

In Azerbaijan, oil workers and their families are demanding answers about offshore safety standards, but the authorities have stayed silent for nine months about the causes of a disaster that killed 31 people

Revenge of a Citibank worker

Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2016 14:45
Saboteur from Office Space

An IT worker with Citibank was jailed last week for deliberately downing 90% of the bank's network, following an unfavourable review with a manager.

The Oakland police cannot be reformed

Submitted by Scott Jay on Jul 31 2016 02:39

The Oakland Police cannot be reformed partly because reformers are not even willing to fight for incremental change

Protests to hit Byron after immigration raids

Submitted by Jim on Jul 29 2016 14:48
Byron Hamburgers restaurant in London

Gourmet burger chain which helped immigration officers detain 35 of its workers by luring them to "fake meetings" faces a wave of protests.

Attempted military coup in Turkey

Submitted by mikail firtinaci on Jul 15 2016 20:11
Turkish soldiers block Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge.

Ongoing updates and discussion on the attempted military coup in Turkey with contributions from working-class radicals on the ground.

Undercover police within the social movements

Submitted by rat on Jul 4 2016 15:28

A brief look at the infiltration into political groups by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), an undercover unit of the British police's Special Branch. The SDS used relationships with women activists to help give credibility to their false identities which were often created with use of dead children's names.

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.