On 20 September, protesters gathered outside the London offices of The Guardian, to demand an end to its hostile media blitz against Venezuela. RATB In the build up to, and since the Venezuelan presidential election on 28 July, The Guardian and its sister newspaper The Observer have churned […]
Politics
Neoliberalism and capitalism, lost in their labyrinths
Some sectors of capitalism and of the far right propose the promotion of new forms of fascism, favouring general repression and eliminating any sort of bourgeois democracy. Big capital does not fear new fascism as it does not stray from the fundamental principles of capitalism. But at a global level, the panorama is one of uncertainty.
Amilcar Cabral and decolonization today
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution and the centenary of the birth of one of the most influential leaders of the African decolonization movement. Transatlantically, Cuba played an important part militarily and politically in ejecting the colonizers, while Brazilian Paolo Freire was influenced by Cabral’s education for the people.
300 days of genocide
Western government and media complicity in Israel’s Palestinian genocide. Through genocide, displacement, and denial we are vanishing an Indigenous and native population from its rightful and legal home. Sul Nowroz / Real Media* The Olympics play on television, ice cream vans are parked up on street corners, school […]
Petition for sex worker protection and decriminalisation
A new petition by the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) will put pressure on Brighton and Hove City Council to ‘take all possible action’ to protect sex workers and use its influence to fully decriminalise prostitution in the United Kingdom. The petition needs 1,250 signatures to be taken to a […]