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
REVEALED: a secret diary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
“Quiet until 12 o’clock. “Alarm”, the Germans are in our building, luckily it passes and we sleep on…” So begins the diary of an unknown woman, written in one of the secret bunkers established by the Jewish fighters during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising….
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.
ANALYSIS: why are LGBT+ people a key target of the far right in eastern Europe?
A look at why and how fascist and far right organisations – in and out of government – in central and eastern Europe are using homophobia to mobilise support, and the resistance against them.