By JJ Bola
I understand that the title is enough to make the average person immediately click the little “X” in the top right corner, fear not, I have not descended to the “dark side” nor am I practicing any kind of “evil” (at least not that I’m aware of :). I am merely trying to […]
By Joel Preston /Â @cleccambodia
Following the tragedies in Bangladesh the regional garment industry is getting a lot of attention.
Before the events of the last few weeks, we would have said that building safety is not so much an issue in Cambodia. However, only hours after international brands signed onto the Bangladesh Building and Fire Safety […]
By @MegafonenOrten / Megaphone – The Swedish Suburban MovementÂ
Husby besieged by police officers. Go home? This IS our home
The effect of the police murder of 69-year-old man in Husby on Monday 13th May arrived today: a conflict between the cops and local citizens after four cars were burned in the evening.
Whatever we do, the police and the mainstream media […]
By Nadia Kamil / @nadiakamil
I recently saw the Oscar-nominated 5 Broken Cameras and it affected me deeply – though definitely not the first film to make me cry, it was the first film that made me cry audibly. It spurred me into learning more about the history & current situation in Palestine. So I was pleased […]
By @IntheDocHouse
Thursday 16th May | Rich Mix Cinema | 8.00pm | £7 (£5 conc)
DocHouse Presents: When the Boys Return – With Q&A with Director via Skype
By @Prolapsarian
Over the last couple of years more and more official Metropolitan Police twitter accounts have popped up. These are part of the Met’s wider media operation, although the individual accounts are often controlled much further down the ranks – hence the ability not to spell “beggars†correctly. And yesterday, these two tweets (pictured above) were posted by a […]
Read more →
If you’re a white person, it may come as a surprise to you that the rest of us are thinking a few things we choose not to say. Kamau helps by finding a white guy who’ll listen — we’d say it was about dialogue or whatever but it’s really just for fun.
Read more about FX […]
Read more →
By Luqman Onikosi
A migrant’s life is full of uncertainty. For international students, foreign investors or skilled migrants, we have to justify ourselves in order to be given the chance to stay alive. How can we do this? In a system that decides who lives and dies on the basis of economics and race, our chances […]
By @JustinTheLibSocÂ
Trigger warning: Graphic pictures of victims of violent attacks and stabbings.
While the world’s media counts the toll of those who died in the Savar tragedy (at time of writing it reached 940), the notion of freedom of speech has been severely under attack by Bangladesh’s Awami League led Government and others.  Last month in April, Hefajat-e […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:17 — 59.8MB)
By @LatinLibNews
A new podcast by Caiman del Barrio of LibCom discussing events in Latin America from a Libertarian Communist perspective. This first episode looks at the rise and legacy of Hugo Chávez. He may have died but his project – misleadingly named ‘revolutionary socialism for the 21st […]
Read more →
The Multicultural Politic is Stephen Fry proof thanks to caching by WP Super Cache