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Hospital workers continue striking for fairer pay

Submitted by Ramona on Aug 11 2017 09:56
St Bart's hospital staff continue to fight for fairer pay

Workers at St Barts hospital trust in London are set to continue one of the largest ever hospital strikes in the UK.

LGBT refugee wins legal battle to stay in UK

Submitted by libcom on Aug 11 2017 08:43
Aderonke Apata

Aderonke Apata was accused of faking her sexuality, but has now won her 13 year battle for asylum.

Fascist arson attack on Stockholm sit-in

Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 10 2017 13:05
Anti-fascists hold off Nordic Youth activists

Two people have been hospitalised with burn injuries after a group of fascists armed with flares attacked a sit-in in central Stockholm

Police brutality during double eviction in Bologna

Submitted by Ed on Aug 9 2017 15:30
Clashes outside the Làbas social centre.

Police injured more than a dozen people, two seriously, on a day where two social centres were violently evicted in Bologna.

Greece: Karypidis supermarket worker commits suicide after 18 months without pay

Submitted by Rob Ray on Aug 9 2017 12:45

The Thessaloniki Libertarian Initiative writes about the suicide of a worker in supermarket chain Karypidis, after 18 months in which the firm simply didn’t pay its staff salaries. Early this month the initiative carried out a protest action outside one of the company’s supermarkets in Thessaloniki (above). This rally was the only collective reaction following the suicide-murder of the worker.

Neo-Nazi secret meeting in Holborn cancelled

Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 8 2017 18:03
Anti-fascist activists shutting down a previous Keep Talking event

A secret neo-Nazi meeting due to be held this Wednesday has been stopped after the venue cancelled the booking

Mexico: insurrectionary anarchist-feminist group bombs Episcopal Conference headquarters

Submitted by Craftwork on Aug 4 2017 19:57

Mexico in recent years has become a hotbed of insurrectionary anarchist activity. On July 25th 2017, the insurrectionary anarchist/feminist group 'Comando Feminista Informal de Acción Antiautoritaria' (COFIAA - Informal Feminist Command of Anti-Authoritarian Action) bombed the headquarters of the Mexican Episcopal Conference in Mexico City, the latest in a series of attacks that they have carried-out in the past two years.

Commemorating July 19: sailing in the rivers of the history of revolutionary movements

Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Aug 4 2017 18:58

Today, July 19, it’s been five years since the autonomy of Rojava was declared. The revolutionary process that has been developed and expended since then brings worthy learnings for the whole world, and we want to commemorate this date from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava.

Secret Russian-Kurdish-Syrian military cooperation is happening in Syria’s eastern desert

Submitted by Guerre de Classe on Aug 3 2017 16:10

In the first of a series from Syria, Robert Fisk says that new connections, however tenuous, demonstrate that all sides are determined to avoid military confrontation between Moscow and Washington

Clancy Sigal RIP

Submitted by Hieronymous on Jul 29 2017 03:12
Clancy Sigal going to a demo with Doris Lessing

Clancy Sigal, journalist, activist and author of Going Away, along with other class-conscious novels, passed away at age 90 on 16 July 2017.