Assange: safeguards and assurances?
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The crux of this matter appears to be resting on whether Assange would be safer from extradition to the US in Sweden.
Civil liberties, justice, crime
Hillsborough - the ruling class cover up finally exposed
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After 23 years of struggle, the Justice for 96 Campaign has forced out the truth about the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and the deliberate cover up and smear campaign by the ruling class to shift the bl
Assange's refusal to face rape charges harms his cause
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Before I wrote the article on Julian Assange (“Assange, rape, free speech”, Solidarity 254) I had a good look at the bourgeois press.
Defend the right to protest in Glasgow!
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Officials of Glasgow’s Labour City Council are recommending that the Scottish TUC’s anti-austerity demonstration of 20 October should not be allowed to assemble in George Square in the city centre.
Assange should answer rape charge, but is right to fear Sweden-US extradition
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Ecuador has made the following absolutely clear:
1) Julian Assange can be questioned at their London embassy in connection with these allegations (at the moment he is only wanted for questioning);
Assange, Assad and anti-imperialism
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I don’t quite know where to start unpacking the claim that socialist feminists who feel that Julian Assange has a case to answer are really “liberals” who “don’t mind being raped by imperialist ideology”.
Pussy Riot: performance and protest
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, have been sentenced to two years in jail for “hooliganism” for performing their “Punk Prayer” at Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Russia’s main Christian Orthodox place of worship.
Julian Assange, free speech and rape
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now holed up in Ecuador’s Embassy, west London, having been granted political asylum by Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa.
Quebec government tries to ban protest
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The student movement in Quebec faces an all-out offensive by the government.
Police against Tories
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On 10 May 20,000 coppers joined a Police Federation demonstration against cuts and reforms. On the same day just 500 public sector workers joined London’s strike day rally against pension cuts.