Olympics and Georgia
While the bourgeois press has been full of whining about irrelevances such as miming children and CGI fireworks, last week it was the sentencing of two old women by Beijing authorities which came to symbolise the true spirit of the Beijing Olympic Games. Wu Dianyuan and her neighbour Wang Xiuying applied for permission to protest [...]
Free Arash
Arash Mohajernejad has been arrested and detained in Oakington Immigration Removal Centre pending the outcome of his asylum application. Arash is a member of the Global Student Alliance and his request for asylum is based on his political work for a democratic Iran and against the Islamic Republic. He was previously imprisoned in Iran, and [...]
Under An Iron Heel
40 years ago troops from the USSR and vassal states (not including the German Democratic Republic for obvious reasons) invaded Czechoslovakia, crushing the ‘Prague Spring’ under the iron heel of the Stalinist boot. The invasion came just 18 days after the Bratislava Declaration in which representatives from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hungarian People’s [...]
The SWP’s Holocaust Revisionism
The SWP front Unite Against Fascism has been distributing an anti-BNP contact sheet which not only flat out ignores the murder of six million Jews and half a million Sinti and Roma people in the Holocaust (that’s with a capital H thank you), it revises the number of victims down to thousands.
The form, which is [...]
The New Statesman investigates…
The New Statesman is asking readers to vote on which one of five topics they would like TNS to investigate. Encouragingly, 84% of respondents have voted for the Asylum ‘Crisis’, instead of Conservative Party Funding, Lobbying, Prince Charles or the ‘State of British Childhood’.
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