Tamils Interned In Squalid Conditions

Agencies report that the Sri Lankan government is already restricting access to Tamil internment camps, and that by the end of the week,
the number of internally displaced people in camps is expected to have grown to more than a quarter of a million people since late April.
Other reports suggest that Tamils could be living behind [...]

Iranian Workers’ May Day Resolution

The present financial crisis and its destructive consequences for the working class around the world is yet to spread its ominous specter on the everyday life of the Iranian workers; But the injustices they suffer is nothing but the outcome of the rule of the Iranian capitalist class.
Injustices such as: Wages that keep workers under [...]

May Day Arrests In Iran

Report taken from Indymedia Ireland.
The May Day rally and celebration in Tehran, which was organized by independent Iranian labour organizations in Laleh Park, on May 1st, 2009 at 5 PM, was attacked by security and intelligence forces at around 5:30 PM and many have been beaten and arrested. The security forces did not allow more [...]

Roma Demonstrations In Czech Republic

Roma, antifascists and supporters will march against racism in the Czech Republic tomorrow.
While Czech MPs are busy coming up with new policies to prevent the growth of extremism, Czech Roma organizations are planning to stage a protest in about ten Czech cities.
It is for the first time when the Roma community gets mobilized nationwide. The [...]

Notes on May Day

The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through [...]