On Wednesday, May 11, the Instituto Cultural y Educativo Coapa (Coapa Cultural and Educational Institute), located in the south of Mexico City, was shut down by the head of the Coyoacán Borough, ValentÃn Maldonado, using the argument that the institution did not have a Civil Protection Manual.
Arrests and censorship: no to the anti-democratic offensive in Egypt!
16 May 2016, byRepression has reached an unprecedented scale in Egypt raids against the journalists’ union, arbitrary arrests, systematic violence, disappearances, arrests of activists, journalists and lawyers ... More than 1,200 people have been arrested by Egyptian security forces since April 15.
Suffocating to death – save Egyptian prisoners!
16 May 2016Temperatures in Egypt will reach 45 degrees Celsius by tomorrow!
While many suffer because of this heat wave, Egyptian prisoners -in particular -are feeling the brunt of this hideously hot weather.
Court allows jailed AWP leader to contest by-polls
9 May 2016GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court on Wednesday allowed the jailed Awami Workers Party (AWP) leader Baba Jan to contest the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly byelections in Hunza constituency.
Solidarity from Puerto Rico to San Francisco
3 May 2016, byA message of solidarity on behalf of the Working People’s Party of Puerto Rico (Partido del Pueblo Trabajador-PPT), to all those congregated and marching in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10 at the ports of San Francisco, California.
Egypt: crackdown on activists ahead of 25 April protests
28 April 2016We publish two brief statements about the most recent crackdown from the UK-based EgyptSolidarityInitiative.org website.
Build a social bloc capable of leading the country
16 April 2016, byAfter the failure of the two investiture sessions of Pedro Sánchez, Anticapitalistas is convinced that it is necessary to engage a new social and political dynamic. These two votes have demonstrated that the only majorities that seem arithmetically feasible are the following: either a coalition government between the forces of the dominant elites and in favour of austerity, or a turn by the PSOE in the direction of a government of a new type, a broad coalition with Podemos, benefiting from the neutrality of the Catalan and Basque nationalist parties.
International Actions Called to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera
9 April 2016, byMatt Meyer of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, in association with the National Boricua Human Rights Network, has issued an international call for actions on Monday, June 20, demanding Freedom for Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.
The new Free Trade Agreements (TPP, TTIP AND TISA), are not a solution: they are another problem
30 March 2016Surreptitiously - like bandits who prey on their victim- and undemocratically, the elite which owns finance and the multinationals is driving the implementation of new “Free Trade Agreements”: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, (TPP); the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP); and the Trade in Services Agreement (TSA).
Another Attack by Far Right on Christians and Democracy
29 March 2016In the past many years, the Awami Workers Party has mourned and condemned many attacks. Today, we sit heartbroken, condemning yet another
