Ramona

Some thoughts on low-income cooking, health, guilt, and the punishment of the poor.

Truckers delivering NATO supplies to isolated coalition ground troops in Afghanistan have gone on…

100 Sardinian workers in Italy's only coal mine have barricaded themselves into the Carbosulcis mine overnight, with 350kg of company explosives. The occupation comes ahead of a government meeting to decide the future of the pit.

The "right to strike" in the UK comes under further attack today, as Iain Duncan Smith announces…

This time last week libcom reported on striking gold miners in Mauritania - after five days of…

As 5 elementary schools are set for closure at the end of this school year, displacing around 900…

Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, walked off the job on…

CeCe McDonald is a transgender woman of colour, who survived a brutal assault by racist transphobes, which left her seriously injured and one of…

I've written this blog in response to a previous discussion of the safer spaces policy at the NYC…

One of the world's largest ever strikes began at midnight on Monday 27th Feb and will end at…

Twitter today pointed out this horrific, unbelievably offensive article, titled 'Homeopathy for Domestic Violence and Abuse'. Hopefully, the…

Last week, I added a 'trigger warning' to this thread. We've not really used these on libcom as a matter of course before, except for adding one to the introduction of Liberté Locke's excellent piece on workplace organising and sexual violence, 'My body, my rules'. But what are trigger warnings, and why do we use them?