Bosnia war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a hearing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Arguments began in the new trial of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of embezzling and laundering nearly $20 billion from Yukos Oil.
Supporters of outlawed Basque parties say that without the banning of their slate, they would be the majority in the regional parliament, with more than 100,000 voting for the banned candidates.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
Having already barred pro-independence parties from the Basque Country’s regional elections, Spanish judge Baltazar GarzĂłn went further and banned all their activities, closing their offices and websites.
Neo-Nazis and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators clashed with riot police and each other in the German city of Dresden on the 64th anniversary of the 1945 Allied bombardment.
In Episode 17 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg discusses growing repression against the Tatar people of the Crimea, and the abrogation of their autonomous government by the Russian authorities since Moscow's illegal annexation of the peninsula. This is a clear parallel to violation of the territorial rights of the Lakota people in the United States through construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the legal persecution of indigenous leaders who stood against it. The parallel is even clearer in the cases of the Evenks and Telengit, indigenous peoples of Siberia, resisting Russian construction of pipelines through their traditional lands. Yet the US State Department's Radio Free Europe aggressively covers the Tatar struggle, while Kremlin propaganda organ Russia Today (RT) aggressively covered the Dakota Access protests. Indigenous struggles are exploited in the propaganda game played by the rival superpowers. It is imperative that indigenous peoples and their allies overcome the divide-and-rule game and build solidarity across borders and influence spheres. Listen on SoundCloud, and support our podcast via Patreon.
Jonathan Freedland writes for The Guardian: “As British Jews come under attack, the left must not remain silent. It is possible to condemn Israel’s brutal action in Gaza while taking a stand against anti-Semitism.”
The UN Special Rapporteur on protection of human rights finds that Spain’s Law of Political Parties criminalizes as “support of terrorism” conduct that does not relate to any kind of violent activity.
Riot police fired tear gas to prevent Cretan farmers from caravaning their tractors from the port of Piraeus to Athens on Monday. Farmers intended to blockade the agriculture ministry’s headquarters.
The Jan. 29 general strike in France—called “Black Thursday”—was the first to hit a major industrialized nation since the start of the global financial crisis. Eight major trade unions, representing teachers, postal workers, rail workers, and other public-sector employees, along… Read more“Unlimited strike” movement sweeps France
Strikes have broken out across the UK in support of a walkout by Lincolnshire energy workers angry at the use of foreign workers. But the xenophobic British National Party is attempting to exploit the issue.
