repression

UPDATED - Solidarity with Detained Cuban Anarchist and LGBT Activists

Submitted by R Totale on May 12 2019 09:23

Havana, Cuba – Following tensions around the cancellation of the state sponsored LGBT march and the effort by activists to call for an independently organized one, two anarchist and LGBT activists, Isbel Diaz Torres and partner Jimmy Roque Martinez, are believed to have been detained by Cuban authorities. The detentions are seen as an attempt by the Cuban state to suppress and intimidate outspoken activists whom they see as leaders and vocal activists in the LGBT community in Cuba. This story was first posted by Black Rose Anarchist Federation.

Brazil: How things have (and haven't) changed

Submitted by Baderneiro Miseravel on May 9 2019 12:46

From the management of June 2013 uprising to Bolsonaro’s ordered revolt.

May Day Repression in Turin

Submitted by Internationalis... on May 9 2019 11:50

For some time now, May 1 has been transformed into an institutional catwalk, an empty stage on which workers' conflicts, now devoid of a sense of class and in some disarray, can be paraded.

El Salvador, Another Vietnam?

Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 23 2019 20:45

A documentary made during the US backed civil war in El Salvador, documenting the social conditions of the country and many of the atrocities.

Bolsonaro's conditions of existence - humanaesfera

What happened in Brazil and the history that explains it, from a practical materialist perspective (ie from the bottom up).

Lega calls on Emilia Romagna regional authorities to outlaw SI Cobas union

Submitted by Ed on Apr 7 2019 19:55

The far-right League (Lega) has called on the Emilia Romagna Region authorities to outlaw SI Cobas, a base union active in the country's warehouses and which often organises among immigrant workers.

Four Rhode Island Prisoners Punished With Solitary Confinement for Possession of Union Literature

Submitted by R Totale on Mar 9 2019 16:18

The RI DOC (Department of Corrections) has held four men for over ten days in solitary confinement at the ACI (Adult Correctional Institution) for allegedly possessing union literature, according to a statement provided to the press. This story was first published by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee.

Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence

Submitted by Ed on Feb 21 2019 16:06

Anandi Ramamurthy's history of the Bradford 12 trial, in which twelve members of the United Black Youth League were arrested on conspiracy charges for preparing to defend their community from fascists. Ramamurthy places the trial in the context of the urban riots which swept Britain in the summer of 1981 as well as detailing the solidarity campaign, their bold legal defence and eventual acquittal.