A聽car convoy was organised聽in the lead-up a聽global day of action to free Kurdish freedom movement leader Abdullah 脰calan. Peter Boyle reports.
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鈥淏rexit鈥 and the recent US presidential election are symptoms of the crisis capitalism has wrought. People are hurting and it has become obvious that instead of 鈥渢rickle down鈥 we have, in Arundhati Roy鈥檚 words, 鈥済ush up鈥. Even mainstream media carry articles suggesting neoliberalism has had its day.
British comedian Eddie Izzard was told he was not welcome at a marathon in the occupied West Bank after refusing to respect the cultural boycott of Israel.
The cultural boycott is part of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign initiated by more than 170 Palestinian groups in 2005 in protest against Israel鈥檚 apartheid policies towards Palestinians
It is a remarkable 鈥 and remarkably unexpected 鈥 thing to write, but female athletes are now leading both the United States鈥 labour movement and the women鈥檚 movement for pay equity.
The Football Federation of Australia (FFA), which governs football (soccer) in Australia, has contributed just $10,000 to Indigenous football this year 鈥 slashing its annual funding in half from last year, the on March 31.
Presenting himself as a genuine alternative to the far-right candidate National Front聽and free-market candidates Francois Fillon and Emmanuel Macron, left-winger Jean-Luc Melenchon聽who has surged into third sport in France's presidential race, whose first round is set for April 23.聽The Left Party's Melenchon聽pitched himself as the candidate for peace and solidarity across borders at a mass meeting on April 8 attended by 70,000 supporters in Marseille.
US president Donald Trump has said an April 4 chemical weapon attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria鈥檚 Idlib province that killed more than 70 people with air strikes against Syrian military targets.
Written days before the Idlib atrocity and the US air strikes, The Intercept co-editor Glenn Greenwald looks at Trump鈥檚 escalation of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 in the region.
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The African National Congress (ANC), which led the struggle against Apartheid, has become the key political vehicle, both in party and state form, of corporate capital.
This applies to all capital 鈥 domestic and international, black and white, local and national, and includes a range of different 鈥渇ractions鈥 of capital.
Over the past two decades, it has been the fight on and over this terrain 鈥 with some for, some against, some in the middle 鈥 that has defined the ANC鈥檚 journey since the end of Apartheid in 1994.
A March 10 trial court judgement acquitted 117 workers from Maruti Suzuki鈥檚 automobile factory in Manesar, Gurgaon, India of charges of murder. Eighteen workers were convicted of minor offences.
However, 13 workers 鈥 all leaders of the Maruti union 鈥 were found guilty of murder. The Maruti workers plan to appeal the verdict in the High Court.
Why are workers being jailed for murder? The story at Maruti is a familiar one in India鈥檚 industrial scene.
Where unionisation is a crime
Caught In The Revolution: Petrograd 1917
Helen Rappaport
Windmill Books, 2017
430 pages
In 1916-17, millions of starving Russian workers queued for hours for scarce bread, perished on the eastern front or were left unemployed in a country where the living conditions were as atrocious as the record winter cold.
Ecuador鈥檚 Citizens鈥 Revolution is set to continue for another four years after the candidate for the socialist-leaning ruling party, Alianza Pais, Lenin Moreno, won the April 2 presidential elections run off.
With 51.16% of the vote, Moreno defeated Guillermo Lasso, managing director of Ecuador鈥檚 third-largest bank and unsuccessful candidate in the 2013 elections.
"As students, penalty rates can be your main sources of income,鈥 Susie Elliott, a member of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), told a "Save our penalty rates: Hands off our pay," rally in Pitt Street Mall on April 2.
鈥淥ften, you can't work during the week because of classes, and you'd rather be doing something else on a Sunday, but you need the money to buy food. That's why we need penalty rates. This system should be working for the people, not the big corporations."
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