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 DAVID MORGAN shows how the death sentence on PKK leader Ocalan looks set to provoke a new Kurdish uprising if it ends in execution. Macabre scenes in Turkey greeted news of the death sentence pronounced on Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan on 29 June, a verdict that came as no surprise to anyone closely following what has … [Read more…]

DAVID MORGAN, from the Kurdistan Solidarity Committee, shows why we should not forget the plight of the Kurds.While Kosovo now dominates international attention, the plight of the Kurds is ignored. However, it was only a few weeks ago that the Kurds shot dramatically into the news headlines when the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, … [Read more…]

Woolwich, April 18The Greenwich and Bexley branch of the IWA(GB) held a meeting, attended by 700 people, to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre perpetrated by British imperialism against innocent men, women and children holding a peaceful demonstration. In the resulting carnage, 350 people died and over 100 were wounded.The Amritsar … [Read more…]

by Zane CarpenterOn Saturday, 10 April a Unison-sponsored march took place in Newcastle. The theme was ‘campaign for a living wage’ (which of course could mean anything to anybody) and it was cunningly timed to bring attention to the issue of low pay just after the new minimum wage legislation had come into being, which … [Read more…]

Woolwich, April 18The Greenwich and Bexley branch of the IWA(GB) held a meeting, attended by 700 people, to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre perpetrated by British imperialism against innocent men, women and children holding a peaceful demonstration. In the resulting carnage, 350 people died and over 100 were wounded.The Amritsar … [Read more…]

Oppose the neo-Nazi NATO war against Yugoslavia !IntroductionNATO (in particular US imperialism and its poodle and junior partner, British imperialism) have been itching to further the break-up of Yugoslavia by effectively turning the Yugoslav province of Kosovo into a NATO protectorate through the deployment of 28,000 NATO troops as `peace-keepers’. When President Milosevic, quite correctly, … [Read more…]

On April 16 and 23 bombs exploded in London, deliberately and intentionally aimed to kill and maim defenceless men, women and children. These cowardly devices were filled with nails so that when they explode the nails will fly out in all directions like bullets and kill and injure as many people as possible. In Brixton … [Read more…]

When the US-NATO forces started its war against Yugoslavia, the Communist Party of Sweden [KPML(r)] took initiatives to mobilise protest meetings, demonstrations and other activities.In a number of cities, such as Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo, Gislaved, Helsingborg, Karishamn, there have been demonstrations. In some of these cities there are fairly large Yugoslav and Serbian communities (around … [Read more…]

Elections to the European Parliament are to be held on 10th June. For the first time in these elections, there is a socialist alternative, for opposing the parties of capitalism – Labour, Tory and Lib.Dems. This alternative is represented by the Socialist Labour Party. All those who stand for socialism, for full employment, for decent … [Read more…]

The odyssey of the NATO troops who were thrown out of the Macedonian village of Zbrnjak, near Kumanovo, could have ended in tragedy for them if the Macedonian Special police force had not escorted them to Tabanovci, close to the Yugoslav border.A large protest movement against the deployment NATO troops in Macedonia began in Kumanovo … [Read more…]