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Anti-racists campaign ahead of Makerfield election
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (485+ words) More than 60 anti-racist activists were out on the campaign trail in Makerfield on Sunday." A mix of local campaigners, along with supporters from Manchester and Merseyside Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) groups, handed out hundreds of leaflets calling on people…...
A tender excavation of a brutal reckoning
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (662+ words) Roy masterfully links private oppression to systemic rot "In these pages my mother, my gangster, shall live. She was my shelter and my storm." The visceral opening in Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me launches a memoir that is…...
Defend Palestine Action from deepening state clampdown
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (514+ words) Campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) is asking Palestine activists to show solidarity with four people set to be sentenced as "terrorists" this Friday. Samuel Corner, Charlotte Head, Ellie Kamio and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted in May of criminal…...
Trump hesitates as risk of war heightens
19+ hour, 22+ min ago (731+ words) Donald Trump and his secretary of war Pete Hegseth "I call all the shots. He doesn't call the shots," Donald Trump told the Financial Times newspaper on Sunday. He was talking about Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But Netanyahu immediately…...
After the far right rampage'The racists scared me but I'm not without hope for Southampton'
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1893+ words) I was scared. I was texting all my black and Asian friends to tell them to stay inside for their own safety." Alex, a single mother in Southampton, described how she spent last Tuesday night, as hundreds of far right…...
What we need is more protest'Portuguese general strike brings cities to a halt
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (553+ words) Hundreds of thousands of workers in Portugal staged a general strike this week against the right wing government's labour law "reforms. The country's largest trade union federation, the CGTP, called the action on Wednesday. Prime minister Luis Montenegro of the…...
Fighting for Trans+ liberation after the EHRC ruling
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (431+ words) Socialist Worker Why We Need a Revolution to get rid of Racism - 54-57 Allison St, , Birmingham, B5 5 TH Now is the Time of Monsters Gramsci: for the 21st Century - Friends Meeting House, Ship St, Brighton, BN1 1 AF - 94 Grosvenor Road, St Paul's, Bristol, BS2 8 XJ The…...
Cancer researchers demand 'world-leading' pay
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (605+ words) Wages have dropped by 16 percent in six years through restructing Workers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London are striking for nine days to demand higher pay from the world-leading institution." The Unite union members chanted "We fight…...
The real "two-tier" criminal justice system
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (1007+ words) Cops have been shown time and again to be institutionally racist The racists rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night screamed about "two-tier" policing as they sought to weaponise the killing of Henry Nowak." The far right continually accuses the police…...
Labour's AI investment plan will trash environment
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (549+ words) The Labour government says it wants to turbocharge investment in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet the data centres the technology needs will soak up vast amounts of water and energy'and trash the government's already weak promises over climate change. A new…...