Anti-nuclear organisations in Japan are calling for mass international support for their petition, which draws particular attention to the pollution of the oceans both in terms of the leakage of ground water and from the storage tanks themselves. This is so serious they argue, that it is as if ’another serious accident has occurred. Sign here
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.