Workers' Liberty and other activists, especially from the Worker-communist Parties of Kurdistan and of Iran, protested on Saturday 14 April at Kensington Court, High St Kensington, London W8 5EA. Further such protests against the Israeli shootings in Gaza and for a democratic political settlement in Israel-Palestine will be notified shortly.
Workers' Liberty summer school 21-24 June 2018, Birkbeck University, Malet St, London. "Challenges of a Labour government" is a major theme - how we can get such a government, how the labour movement can hold to its promises, whether Labour policies are adequate, what the left should demand... Thursday: walking tour. Friday evening: debate on socialism vs free market with Kristian Niemetz of the IEA. Saturday-Sunday - debates, workshops, film showings, and more. Book online here.
After nearly seven years of unrest and civil war in Syria, Assad’s chemical attack on the civilian population trapped in Douma, a city near the capital Damascus, no longer seems shocking; it was the action of a regime that is able to kill and maim with impunity.
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