Syndicalists protest racial profiling targeting sans-papiers in Sweden
Submitted by altemark on Feb 22 2013 14:15
Hunting down undocumented immigrants like animals is immoral and a waste of police resources, argues syndicalist weekly Arbetaren’s editor-in-chief Daniel Wiklander, who would like the Swedish companies who exploit vulnerable foreign-born workers to be held responsible.
Swedish police are using ever more resources in the hunt for undocumented immigrants. But as it is illegal to stop a person without reasonable grounds for suspicion, the police are making up reasons.
The end result is racial profiling, which is undignified for any country that respects the rule of law.
Tim Burgess: 'celebrity' Charlatan scab
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 19 2013 11:53
As journalists at the BBC strike to defend their jobs while senior execs get huge payoffs, former front man of middle-of-the-road Britpop act The Charlatans, scabs on them by covering for Lauren Laverne who joined the walkout. Presumably, as he is so desperate, being a scab is the only way he can get on the radio.
Thousands of members of the National Union of Journalists at the corporation walked out on 18 February against job cuts. As the corporation makes compulsory redundancies while advertising posts externally and giving huge payoffs to failing bosses like George Entwistle who quit during the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Against prison studies without capitalism: "The strange career of The New Jim Crow" - Joseph D. Osel
In this analysis Osel provides a devastating and radical analysis of The New Jim Crow. He asks social justice advocates to take a stand against prison studies that do include an analysis of capitalism and reflects on the significance of the "counterrevolutionary protest" in social justice work, describinghow social justice advocates "sustain societal problems even while challenging them." His essay challenges anti-prison activists and others to observe and analyze "their own complicity with and legitimization of the structures that they seek to dismantle."
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“The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws.
UK news airs footage refuting police claims about murdered Marikana miners
Submitted by red jack on Jan 29 2013 03:18
Ben Fogel writes on the new footage of the Marikana Massacre screened on Channel Four in the UK and asks where was the South African media?
Five months after the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, footage of police action at the ‘killing koppie‘ ["hill"] has finally reached the public.
The freedom of the press - George Orwell
George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm about unofficial censorship of the press in the UK, a supposedly "democratic" country. In a shocking bit of Orwellian irony, this preface is unofficially censored from almost all print editions of the book.
This book was first thought of, so far as the central idea goes, in 1937, but was not written down until about the end of 1943.
Tell us lies about the miners - Dave Douglass
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 16 2013 21:28
An angry study of the UK media campaign of distortion and lies against miners during the great strike of 1984-5, written by one of the participants.
Columnism - Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof's critique of columnism from 1968.
The columnist functions as a pressure release valve. Columnists can write what they want the way they want. This creates the impression that any journalist can write what they want the way they want in their particular newspaper.
Save Mute magazine!
Submitted by libcom on Sep 28 2012 16:55
Mute magazine produce high-quality, thought provoking radical content online and in print, and are one of the few of their kind able to actually pay their writers. After a 100% budget cut from the Arts Council, their future is in the balance, and they are appealing for donations to keep them in print. Read their appeal below...
Mute Needs You!
Your paper needs contributions
Submitted by working class s... on Aug 17 2012 18:50
Have you thought about writing for Freedom?
Hi all
I am the temporary editor of ‘Freedom’ for the September issue.
Several items have already been sent in, but we could really use some more people contributing for September (and beyond)
If you may never have considered writing before why not take the plunge?
A lengthy reply to David Hoffman
Submitted by Rob Ray on Aug 11 2012 13:40
This reply has been a while in compiling, as Hoffman has, for a man regularly protesting how little he cares about the opprobrium of the anarchist set, been remarkably hardworking in his efforts to send letters to pretty much anyone who will listen to him say what a great guy he is and how Freedom is basically Dr No's richer, more unscrupulous successor.
I'm dealing here only with direct allegations Hoffman has been making over the last couple of weeks, in an effort to clarify matters.
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