UPDATE: Tbilisi united against homophobia of state, church and far right thugs
TV cameraman Aleksandre (Lekso) Lashkarava, who was violently assaulted by far right thugs outside the headquarters of Tbilisi Pride, was found dead in his home last night by his mother. Now new pro-LGBT+ protests are planned
FRANCE: fascist RN fails to take region in election second round
There’s good news for antifascists as Marine Le Pen’s fascist Rassemblement National has failed to take its target region with the majority of votes now counted in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (PACA) region.
Mick Gosling – always a socialist
Mick was a socialist and trade unionist who never let go of his politics, despite the ups and downs of the class struggle.
Jackie Robinson: baseball, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter strikes
US athletes led a series of protests and strikes against racism and police violence on 28 August 2020, the scale and militancy of which has no historic parallels in US history. The fact that a wave of protests broke out on the date that was marking Jackie Robinson Day seemed apt.
Switzerland narrowly backs Islamophobic veil ban – while facemasks are compulsory
It’s ludicrous. You can – and, in many cases, MUST – wear something covering your face in public unless you are one of the few Muslim women who wears a niqab. Then it is a banned face covering, quite different from those other things that cover your face.
Telling it like it is: an interview with folk-soul artist Abu Talib (Bobby Wright)
Folk-soul singer Abu Talib (formerly Bobby Wright) talks about the political climate of the early 1970s, his “people’s farm” in the Bronx and the reissue of his single, Blood of an American.