SDL Degenerates Into Paranoia
After Saturday’s successful antifascist action on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, the so-called ‘Scottish Defence League’ has degenerated into paranoia and back-biting. According to reports they have closed their Facebook and Bebo — Bebo! — sites and from now on will only accept members who are personally vouched for by at least two active fascists, while the [...]
Joint Statement By 3 Iranian Unions
In a joint statement to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the international solidarity movement with the imprisoned workers of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Company, that union and the Syndicate of Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company and Free Union [...]
Who Protects The Nazis? The Police Protect The Nazis!
Today nearly a thousand police were deployed on the streets of Edinburgh to protect the racists, football hooligans and nazi scum of the so-called ‘Scottish Defence League’. Hundreds of police were brought into the city from around Scotland and Northeast England to act as hired muscle for rascist, fascist thugs, while thousands of antifascists staged [...]
Yarl’s Wood Women ‘Locked Up And Denied Treatment’
Staff at the Yarl’s Wood migrant concentration camp are beating hunger-striking women and denying them drinking water and access to toilets and sanitation facilities. Some detainees have been locked outside, including one woman with a serious injury who has not received medical treatment, and others are locked up in the ‘punishment’ wing. Their jailers have [...]
84 + Women On Hunger Strike Behind The Wire At Yarl’s Wood IRC
Detention results from political decisions that represent a “hardening attitude towards irregular migrants and asylum seekers (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now! Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, [...]
Defend Alberto Durango
In an act of vindictive union busting Alberto Durango, a leading activist in the campaign to achieve justice for cleaners in London, is facing the sack. Alberto, a leader of the Latin American Workers Association and member of UNITE, has been in the forefront of a series of campaigns to organise mainly migrant workers to [...]
New Migrant And Activist Space In Calais Raided By Police
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This afternoon, Sunday 7th February, police raided the Kronstadt Hangar in Calais, smashing glass doors and arresting those inside. The hangar, a new space for migrants and activists in Calais rented by the No Borders network and the French organisation SoS Sans Papier¹, opened yesterday afternoon to immediate repression from the authorities. [...]
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