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The first month of Labour Relief Campaign Pakistan
The Labour Relief Camp first camp was organized in Lahore on 1st August 2010 at Regal Chouck Lahore. Earlier on 25th July 2010, we decided to launch a Baluchistan appeal.
It stated, “Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in different parts of Baluchistan over the few days.? Water levies broke leaving the people exposed to […]
3Sep2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
Labour Relief Campaign brings aid to Pakistan
Sindh Labour Relief committee consists of Labour Education Foundation,
Home Bassed Women Workers Federation, Home Based Women Bangle Workers
Union Hyderabad, National Trade Union Federation and Labour Party
Pakistan conducted its four camps in Karachi and supporting three
camps in Moro District, one in Hub and Thatta each where people coming
from suburb of Moro, Jaffarabad, Jaccobabad and get shelter […]
SSP aids donations to Pakistan’s Labour Relief Campaign
The Scottish Socialist Party is encouraging donations to a British account which is channelling urgent donations to the Labour Relief Campaign in Pakistan. This makes is much easier and less costly for donations to help the 20 million Pakistanis who are still struggling to recover from the floods, which killed 1600 people.
1Sep2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
justice4bolton’s urgent need to raise £35,000
On 20 March 2010, anti-racists and anti-fascists organised a demonstration in Bolton against a rally called by the so-called English Defence League (EDL). The EDL has direct links to the fascist BNP, and is violently Islamophobic (racist against Muslims).
Over 50 antifascist activists were arrested. Many fewer were charged though the national and local organisers […]
Netherlands: Islamophobia is the main form taken by racism
Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. There is no point in trying to change the subject and hoping the danger will pass; Islamophobia has to be confronted head-on. […]
30Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
New book: “Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings”
In 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany’s fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy’s Future and Freedom party emerged.
To help activists understand this twenty-first century wave of fascism, Socialist […]
COP15 Activists Facing Trials
In December 2009 during the climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of protesters gathered to call for climate justice and challenge the ongoing UN negotiations. Instead of welcoming these popular calls for action, the Danish state responded with brutal police force and intense repression of protestors. Around 2000 people were preemptively arrested at legal […]
25Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
Australia’s ‘Greenslide’ to left — neither major party wins majority
By denying both the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the the Liberal-National coalition an outright majority in primary votes and in House of Representatives seats, Australian electors voted “neither of the above” for the traditional parties of government.This followed an election campaign in which the major parties conducted an ugly race to the right, most […]
24Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
SR: Take down Birmingham spy cameras!
The erection of over 200 CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) spy cameras in the Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath areas of the city, including 72 covert or hidden cameras, combines state racism, Islamophobia, the surveillance state and the “war on terror” all rolled up into one. They should be rejected completely and taken down […]
20Aug2010 | Admin. | 2 comments | Continued
Join the ‘Coalition of Resistance’
As you are no doubt aware, the welfare state is under enormous threat from the current government. A new broad-based Coalition of Resistance has been formed to resist the cuts, and put forward an alternative agenda. The Coalition of Resistance has today issued a statement calling for a mass campaign against the Con-Dem cuts and […]
5Aug2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
What I Stand For: Jerry Hicks’ campaign to be UNITE general secretary
This election comes at a defining moment for working people in this country. It is the most important Trade union election for generations. We had the credit crunch, the recession and now the crisis of public debt. The Tory-Liberal, Con-Dem coalition government, wants to dump the costs of bailing out their beloved “free market” on […]
5Aug2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
“Anti-Islamic Racism and Communalism”: Indian socialists oppose veil ban
In country after country in Europe, political forces ranging from liberals (Belgium) to the openly right wing (Sarkozy in France, the Northern League in Italy) have been initiating actions to ban Muslim women from wearing the veil, or seeking punishment for those wearing it. The Netherlands and Italy already have regional or local restrictions, as […]
29Jul2010 | Admin. | 1 comment | Continued