Viénet and Debord Films
Disrupting the flow of the spectacle, René Viénet’s detournement Can Dialectics Break Bricks? and Guy Debord’s ‘manifesto’ Society of the Spectacle.
Gholamreza Gholamhosseini Released
Gholamreza Gholamhosseini, a member of the Vahed Syndicate Executive Board, has been released from Evin Prison. He was arrested on 24 June while attending an Iran Women’s Day event.
Osanloo And Vahed Receive Human Rights Award
Mansour Osanloo and the Vahed Syndicate (Tehran Bus Drivers’ Union) are to receive the Solidar Silver Rose Award.
Mac Urata, Secretary of the ITF’s Inland Transport Section, commented: “We and everyone else who supports the campaign for justice for workers in Iran can be justifiably pleased at the news of this well-deserved award.”
“Sadly,” he continued, “Mansour [...]
Against Fortress Britain
To its shame, Britain is a state which imprisons without trial children who have committed no crime. Children of people who have applied for asylum are taken from friends and family and locked up without education or proper healthcare in detention centres. The government which launched the Every Child Matters programme should be called to [...]
Notes On Nationalism
Orwell’s 1945 essay Notes on Nationalism, is still clearly relevant in the present. This is especially true of the section on transferred nationalism, after recent cheerleading by political degenerates for Russian imperialism and the Chinese dictatorship’s ongoing suppression of independent workers’ organisations and national independence movements.
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Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word [...]
