This morning organisers Beograd Pride held their final press conference before tomorrows pride parade. Except pride will not be held, due to high security risks and a lack of cooperation on the part of state and police to secure the event. Serbian police have cancelled permission for the pride to be held in its planned location in the centre of the city.
Socialists save Christians’ lives
1 August 2009, byShabir Ahmad, a Labour Party Pakistan leader at Gojra was able to save the lives of several Christians today with the help of LPP activists when fundamentalists tried to burn the homes of Christians.
British left condemn the coup
30 June 2009We totally condemn the military coup and kidnapping of the democratically elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya.
Europe-wide anti-capitalist campaign for European elections takes off
11 May 2009At a rally in Oporto, Portugal on 8th May, Miguel Portas, Alda Sousa, Francisco Louça and Olivier Besancenot presented the common proposals of the Left Bloc (Bloco do Esquerda, BE) and the New Anti-capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anti-capitaliste, NPA) against the crisis and European Union policies. “The capitalists must pay for the crisis” is one of the themes common to the two campaigns.
Besancenot Tour Boosts Anti-Capitalist Left Intervention
27 April 2009Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson of the New Anti-capitalist Party in France will participate in a series of public meetings elsewhere in Europe organised by signatories of the Strasborg anti-capitalist left conference.
Hoang Khoa Khoi, 1917-2009
26 April 2009, byOur dear Vietnamese comrade Hoang Khoa Khoi has just died at the age of 92, on Thursday April 9. His family and friends gathered a week later in front of the crematorium of Père-Lachaise to pay him a last tribute.
ISO rebuts SWP (US) charges of anti-Semitism
11 April 2009, byLichi D’Amelio of the Unites States International Socialist Organization responds to the charge, made by the US Socialist Workers Party, that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid is anti-Semitic.
NPA launches newspaper
29 March 2009Tout est à nous is the name of the new weekly newspaper of France’s new anticapitalist party, the NPA.
40,000 march in Europe for Tamil self-determination
19 March 2009, by40,000 people demonstrated in front of the EU and UN headquarters in Europe on March 16th. They demand an end to the Sri Lanka’s government’s genocide, that emergency aid be allowed into the war zone and for a lifting on the ban on the LTTE, the militant organisation which represents the Tamil people.
Workers’ parties demand Sri Lanka ceasefire
18 March 2009The parties that gathered at the recent international committee meeting of the Fourth International called for autonomy for the Tamil people.
