Bulgaria Denies Exporting Weapons to Ukraine.. Bulgarian government may fall if it sends weapons to Ukraine Nearly 70% of Bulgarians do not want the government to help Ukraine with weapons, although most are ready to help refugees and send humanitarian …
The Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs rejected the two draft decisions on military assistance to Ukraine and only supported the proposal of “We Continue the Change” to provide technical assistance, but not weapons. The new draft decision passed with 11 votes in favor and 5 against.
The other two proposals of “Democratic Bulgaria” and GERB-SDS were rejected after almost two hours of debate with 6 votes in favor and 3 abstentions. The vote shows that only GERB-SDS, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms and Democratic Bulgaria (DB) support weapons for Ukraine. The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and “Vazrazhdane” (Revival) are strongly against, while “There Is Such a People” (TISP) and We Continue the Change (WCC) support “technical assistance”.
In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates’ court has signed off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act which threatens press freedoms worldwide.
“He is a war criminal,” President Biden said of Vladimir Putin following allegations of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine earlier this month. “I think it is a war crime. … He should be held accountable.”
BREAKING: President Joe Biden calls for war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin, says he's seeking more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. https://t.co/E6TRAet7di
In a conflict where accusations of wrongdoing fly back and forth between Russia and Ukraine on a daily basis, when it comes to the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station that occurred at 10:30am on April 8, 2022, both sides are in rare agreement – the missile used was a Tochka-U, a Soviet-era weapon known in the West by its NATO reporting name as the SS-21 Scarab, and in the former Soviet republics that use the weapon by its GRAU designation, 9K79.
Beyond that one technical piece of information, however, any semblance of unanimity regarding the narrative surrounding how that missile came to strike a bustling railway station, killing and wounding dozens of civilians desperately trying to evacuate from eastern Ukraine in anticipation of a large-scale Russian offensive, collapses, with each side blaming the other. Making this tragedy even more bizarre, the Russian words Za Detei – “for the children” – had been hand-painted on the missile in white.
Last year saw the first tentative efforts to restart physical anarchist bookfairs amid the Covid crisis, with some success in places like Bradford, London, Manchester and even Stonehenge, and this year it looks like the revival is in full swing.
Doing this feature in March, when enough bookfairs have been announced to make a proper list, usually means we inadvertently miss out on the excellent Derry Radical Bookfair, which tends to happen in January, but this time it also falls after Active Distro’s Radical Bookfair in Bristol last month. Apologies for that comrades, but great to see them happening! Fortunately for the West, Bristol is well catered for with the Radical History Bookfair taking place later in the year.
Particularly pleasing is an all-new effort taking place in the late autumn in Peterborough – it’s been a few years since the last East Anglian showing and best of luck to the organisers! Full details below, but in calendar order we’ve got:
May 7th: Glasgow
May 14th: Bristol
May 14th: Liverpool
May 21st: Newcastle
Sept 3rd: Bradford
Sept 24th: London
October 29th: Peterborough
November 5th: Manchester
Note: All details are subject to change, be it due to unforeseen pandemic problems or because sometimes stuff goes wrong. Let us know via editor @ freedompress.org.uk if so, or if you want an anarchist bookfair in Britain or Ireland adding to the list!
“There will be stalls and hopefully some other events, talks, poetry and discussions. If you would like a stall please get in touch, we expect to charge £10 per stall for this one with all proceeds going towards the 1 in 12 Club!”
Already lined up are WYACG, PM Press, AK, Active Distribution, 0161 Festival, Pirate Press, Cubesville and Forged Books.
The festival has two main themes, will reveal hidden histories, debate and agitate for a future of better pasts. Theme one looks at State and private surveillance of labour and social movements (1792 to now), while theme two will consider the hidden histories of post-war Britain (1945-51). Among the planned entertainments will be talks, workshops, walks, films, singing, exhibitions and of course, stalls.
May 7th at The Clubroom, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow 3pm-9pm
Red and Black Clydeside is part of working class Glasgow’s May Day celebrations, and follows from the previous weekend’s May Day on the Green. The event is a showcase for the libertarian left and beyond in Glasgow today. Talks, discussions, stalls and a long-overdue chance to mingle in person.
Multiple cases of acute hepatitis in children have been reported in Europe over the past few days, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in a statement on Monday.
The UK was the first to report the issue and had accumulated the most cases to date, the watchdog noted. All the cases in Britain were “presented clinically with severe acute hepatitis, with increased levels of liver enzymes,” while some of the patients also “reported gastrointestinal symptoms, including abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting in the preceding weeks.”
Anyone watching videos of Ukrainian regular forces prisoners, of whom there are by now many thousands, can’t but be struck by their increasingly pathetic state. Each batch is more worn out and scruffy than the last; half of them aren’t even in uniform. The Ukranazi coup regime seems to be throwing Volkssturm into the meat grinder while keeping the (still well-clad and armed) nazi units back to protect its own survival.
April 18, 2022 And just in case YouTube decides to “protect” us from the truth, here is the same version, but uploaded to BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/embed/WsHZLpb2UdC7
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