journalism

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.