The real frontline confronting ISIS is not US or French bombers (the latter currently targeting Raqqa, a city with 140,000 civilians, who are virtual prisoners of ISIS) but the Kurds of Iraq and northern Syria. Just over a week ago the combined Kurd forces, under the command of the Yezidis, liberated Sinjar from ISIS. For the Kurds, their war is not just about defeating ISIS, but about creating their own autonomous region – a region that would link all the Kurd cantons. This will not be easy, especially as the Iraq-based Kurds (Peshmerga) are allied with Iran and benefit from US support (nor are the Iraqi Kurds in any hurry to secede from Iraq). But the largest hurdle to an autonomous Kurdistan is Turkey, which not only has rekindled its war with the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party), but has done everything it can over the…
Demonstration in the streets of Vila de Gràcia demanding the freedom of detainees during the last phase of the operation Pandora.
Victor Serri JESUS RODRIGUEZ 11/18/2015 Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez, after analyzing the documentation prepared by the Catalan police orders release under a bail of 8,000 euros of Enrique Costoya, a neighbor of Sants barrio in Barcelona, and a CNT labor lawyer and activist anarchist jailed on 30th October.
He spent three weeks in prison of Soto del Real, after agents of the General Commissariat of Information stormed his home the morning of October 28, as part of the second phase of the Operation Pandora.
They confiscated books, posters and material. He was expected to leave the prison in the early afternoon. Elissa Embat process and the Group of Sant Andreu de Palomar have posted messages on Twitter to welcome him
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L’Audiència Nacional espanyola signa l’auto de llibertat divuit dies després d’haver decretat el seu empresonament a Soto del Real
Manifestació pels carrers de la Vila de Gràcia per exigir la llibertat de les detingudes durant la darrera fase de l’operació Pandora
El jutge Juan Pablo González, després d’analitzar la documentació elaborada pels Mossos d’Esquadra, ordena la posada en llibertat sota una fiança de 8.000 euros d’Enrique Costoya, veí de Sants, advocat laboralista de la CNT i activista anarquista, empresonat des del 30 d’octubre. Ha passat tres setmanes al centre penitenciari de Soto del Real, després que un dispositiu d’antidisturbis i agents de la Comissaria General d’Informació assaltessin el seu domicili la matinada del 28 d’octubre, en el marc de la segona fase de l’operació Pandora. Li van requisar llibres, cartells i material informàtic.
S’espera que abandoni el centre penitenciari a primera hora de la tarda. Procés Embat i el Grup Elissa de Sant Andreu de Palomar han penjat missatges a Twitter per donar-li la benvinguda.
The Little Red Box Of Protest Songs is a truly outstanding release. A three CD box-set full of the finest protest folk music from the USA of the early 20th century. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first American protest song book, ‘The Little Red Song Book’ this collection traces the roots of protest song in the US from the first half of the last century up to the Fifties illustrating how the stage was set for the folk protest giants of the Sixties such as Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. Featuring classic performances by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Leadbelly, The Almanac Singers, The Weavers and many many more.
The usual suspects – Woody, Pete, Leadbelly, Josh White – are all present and politically correct (or not, depending on your ideological viewpoint!). The 60 tracks are mostly circa the Second World War – more than 60 years old, but all worth preserving and hearing. The best songs here – Leadbelly’s The Bourgeois Blues, Josh White’s Jim Crow Train, Brownie McGhee’s Black, Brown and White – are superb, but even the ones with less artistic value are historically significant.
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The city council has been won by ‘Barcelona in Common’ a radical new group stemming from the ‘Indignant’ occupiers, the feminist and the anti eviction movements.
Led by a young activist mother Ada Colau the activists have not yet been corrupted, promising like the Zapatistas to ‘govern obeying’, ordering police to stop evictions of mortgage defaulters, paralysing the plague of luxury hotel building and the rightwing liberal cuts offensive., etc.. and…
Barcelona City Council supports two Court Cases for crimes in the Civil War and Francoism
By Kaos The City Council will support institutional criminal complaints by Italian bombing of Barcelona during the Civil War and the alleged crimes committed by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The deputy mayor of Citizen Rights, Participation and Transparency, Jaume Asens, announced that the city of Barcelona will take part in the process of the criminal complaint filed in the Court of Barcelona by the anti-fascist association AltraItalia condemning the bombing of Barcelona they made the Italian troops between 1937 and 1939, in which nearly 5,000 people died.
iThe victims are asking the Pope to oblige the bishops to open their files to learn the truth.!
Those who suffer pain, loss and heartbreak after learning that their parents are not their parents, who at the time of birth were torn from their mother’s arms, who were sold by doctors, clergyand nuns, who systematically erased their tracks without a trace. The Stolen Babies scandal, one of the most rancid crimes of Nacional Catholicism, continues as part of democracy, forty years after the death of Franco, and still today cries out for justice and reparation.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain, right now, walk the streets without knowing their identity.” says José Luis Gordillo, journalist and author of Los hombres del saco (the Men of Cloth), a shocking exposé which addresses the mega scandal of the stolen babies. the work was printed by a religious publishing house (part of the Pauline brothers) a decision that was not without criticism within the Church. “It’s a question of justice,” says the editorial director, Octavio Figueredo. “We can not remain silent about the suffering of the people.”
When I say the word anarchist you probably have an image of a bomb-throwing skinhead shouting slogans and facing down riot police.This week’s London Real guest David Graeber is going to change that image forever.A self-proclaimed anarchist, David is far more the picture of the soft-spoken, thoughtful academic than a combative activist.
But David’s credentials as a campaigner and anti-capitalist thinker speak volumes. In the first part of our enlightening discussion David recounts his intrinsic role in the 2011 Occupy Wall Street campaign. These protests saw THOUSANDS of people descend on New York City’s Zuccotti Park to create a political alternative to debt culture and corruption. Continue reading “David Graeber – American Anarchist – See Part 1 here”