Month: May 2017

Lecturers in 20 colleges across Scotland have now taken four days of national strike action over the refusal of Colleges Scotland to honour a national bargaining deal on pay and conditions that was reached in […]

Travellers in Ireland face daily discrimination and racism by the Northern and Southern states and within society, at large. But there are now growing demands for equality from a community that suffers enormously from poverty […]

The results of the 4 May county council and metro mayor elections will have disappointed many supporters of Jeremy Corbyn. They must act to sound the alarm – Jeremy Corbyn can win this election but only with […]

Xinjiang is the vast Muslim-majority region in China’s far west where Turkic speaking Uighur Muslims are the largest ethnic group. Under Chinese rule it has been transformed into a 1.7 million square kilometre prison. Rich […]

Las elecciones presidenciales francesas han mostrado un rechazo histórico a los partidos tradicionales, con la eliminación en la primera vuelta del Partido Socialista de Hollande, en el poder, y del partido de Sarkozy (LR) con […]

Se cumplen el ochenta aniversario de la insurrección obrera de mayo del 37 en Barcelona. El levantamiento acabó con la derrota de los trabajadores a manos de las fuerzas del estalinismo, y supuso el final […]

The “Strike of Freedom and Honour” is the name given to a mass hunger strike of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which started indefinitely on the Palestinian Prisoner Day, 17 April. The prisoners […]

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