Ken Loach sent a message to striking workers blockading the oil refinery in Le Havre. The video below the text of Ken Loach’s greeting shows the response when those messages were read to a mass meeting of workers.
Awami Workers Party condemns brutal attack on trans activist
27 May 2016, byThe Awami Workers Party condemns the attack on Alisha, a transgender activist from Trans Action Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Peshawar on Sunday May 22, which left her fighting for her life. (Tragically Alisha died on Wednesday May 25. There are also allegations that she did not receive good medical treatment initaily because of her trans status See LA Times Ed.)
Struggle of Okara peasants led by women continues
23 May 2016On May 20 Anjuman Muzareen Punjab led out a women’s rally from AWP Lahore office against state continued oppression, for land reforms and release of their leaders.
Defending Democracy in the Coyoacán Borough of Mexico City
23 May 2016On 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, Valentín 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.
