Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Sep 20 2018 08:46
35,000 workers are building the third airport in Istanbul to be ready by October 2018, set to be the biggest airport in the world. The labour ministry claim that around 27 have died on site, but others report that over 400 workers have been killed by accidents since construction began, including children.
Comments from the Anarchist Communist Group on the response of the bosses' media (and from some on the left) to the recent Class War demonstration against Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Submitted by Johanna Schellhagen on Sep 11 2018 09:51
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28 August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Beforehand, on June 6, five other activists had been arrested. They are all accused of being urban naxalites - that is, being active members of the Maoist guerrilla movement, which is engaged in an armed struggle in India. Accordingly, the draconian anti-terrorism law (UAPA) is applied.
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