Solidarity 318, 26 March 2014

People's Assembly: time to build a serious fight

About 450 - 500 people attended the People's Assembly Delegate conference in London on 15 March. A report by a first time delegate. Culture Every moving of a motion, supplement, or amendment attracted a large amount of applause, and by the end, this had become rather tedious. Especially as “in the interests of time” speeches were very limited and serious or protracted debate was very scarce with no taking motions in parts from the floor. The chair and conference arrangements committee actively encouraged this rapturousness and it took up a considerable amount of time.This gave the event a very...

The Crimean Tatars: the nation Stalin deported

Beginning on the night of 17-18 May 1944, the entire Crimean Tatar population was deported and scattered across Central Asia. Some 100,000 Crimean Tatars, 40% of the population, died in the course of the deportation and the first year after that. In the 1950s some minor concessions were made to the demands of the remaining Crimean Tatars. But in 1988 the Crimean Tatars were still campaigning for, and being refused, the right to return to the Crimean peninsula. The Crimean Tatars were annexed into the Russian Empire of Catherine II in 1783. Before then they had had an ambiguous relationship...

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