Stjepan Filipović: everlasting symbol of anti-fascism
Submitted by BratBrat on May 23 2017 19:06
Short account of the execution of Croatian communist partisan Stjepan Filipović by the Nazis in 1942, which was made famous by his final act of defiance.
1970: Feminist Sit in at Ladies Home Journal
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 18:20
An account of a sit in by several feminist groups at the Ladies Home Journal, a popular women's magazine, that was staffed almost entirely by men.
Behind the camouflage; a new strike wave in the Bangladeshi garment sector
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 31 2016 17:45
Following a period of relative quiet after the 2013 Rana Plaza factory disaster, new struggles emerge from the garment factories.
Bloodshed in Bayonne
Submitted by Tom McDonough on Oct 4 2016 17:35
October 8, 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
What Problems in Bolivarian Venezuela? What Tumeremo Massacre?
Submitted by Crossly on Apr 1 2016 22:17
While the left press continues to praise the "Bolivarian Revolution," it has brought the country to the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Here are just a few of the problems, and not even the major ones. And then there's the Tumeremo massacre...
If a strike turns you into a Tory, you probably were one anyway
Submitted by Phil on Aug 5 2015 16:11
In the Guardian, Jonathan Jones laments that workers standing up for themselves is getting in the way of him looking at art. Here are five reasons why he’s talking out of his arse and you should support the strikers.
Responding to Evening Standard bollocks on the tube strike
Submitted by Ed on Jul 8 2015 22:21
A commuter's rant about the (unsurprisingly) anti-worker coverage of the tube strike by the Evening Standard.
On freedom of the press - Karl Marx
Karl Marx on censorship.
A proletarian note: Charlie Hebdo - Hamid Moradei
Already with Khomeini’s Fatwa crisis surrounding Salman Rushdie and the Mujahidin deafening Russian army in Afghanistan, we could justifiably described a new emerging conflict zone between the Islamic periphery and the center of capitalist world: In fact, Islamism was taking an global characteristic.
