Release Meryem Özsögüt
The deeply authoritarian Turkish government is hostile to trade unions and considers them ‘terrorist’ organisations. Ms. Meryem Özsögüt, trade union leader and management board member of PSI‘s affiliate SES in Turkey (the trade union of public employees in health and social services) was arrested on the morning of 8 January following her participation in a [...]
Et Cum Omnibus
The Catholic Church is an institution which will stop at nothing to protect it’s power, wealth and prestige. Here is the 2006 BBC Panorama documentary Sex Crimes and the Vatican, which exposes Crimen Sollicitationis, the Church’s blueprint for covering up the sex crimes crimes of the clergy and to Impose fear on the victims and [...]
Italy is a country that has lost its memory: addendum
From the European Roma Rights Centre website, a report “Security a la Italiana: Fingerprinting, Extreme Violence and Harassment of Roma in Italy�, which contains a concise summary of a series of discriminatory legal and policy measures targeting Roma recently enacted by the right-wing Italian government, in place since the April 2008 elections. The report also [...]
Italy is a country that has lost its memory
If you have lived in a country for 40 or more years, are you still a foreigner (insofar as that concept has any value of course, apart from providing convenient scapegoats)? According to ‘post-fascist’ Silvio Berlusconi and his allies in the far right xenophobic Lega Nord (Northern League) the answer is ‘yes’, because they have [...]
Principled Considerations On Entry
Trotsky’s Principled Considerations On Entry is taken from an ancient Militant Tendency pamphlet which contains a number of essays on entryism (or ‘entrism’) including Ted Grant’s Problems of Entrism, and Peter Taaffe’s 1973 introduction, with the fabulously cutting — and entirely accurate — observation: Having gained nothing, like all bad workmen who blame their tools [...]
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