LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for working people is the defense of crucial free speech rights,…
MANCHESTER, England — Forty production workers at Saica Paper UK here have been carrying out a series of one-day strikes for higher pay and better job conditions. The Unite union members voted 97% in favor of strike action after rejecting…
DUBLIN, Ireland — Marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to Belfast to sell his government’s latest attempt to stabilize British rule in Northern Ireland. President Joseph Biden also toured Ireland, touting…
“We lost money for nearly two years solid,” Roy Gallie, chairperson of the Irish Farmers’ Association Pigs Committee, told the Militant by phone April 16. Last year he helped organize protests at retailers to highlight the fact that prices paid…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — At the end of March, Yazidis gathered on the grounds of Lalish Temple in northern Iraq for a religious ceremony, the extraction of olive oil for illuminating the temple. It was a reminder that almost…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — On March 16 participants in the 15th Erbil International Book Fair observed a moment of silence, joining people across Kurdistan in marking 35 years since the Saddam Hussein dictatorship attacked the town of Halabja with…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Over 50 people attended a March 11 presentation by Steve Clark on The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward. Clark is editorial director of Pathfinder Press and…
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — Since the 15th Erbil International Book Fair kicked off March 8, tens of thousands have come looking for books on a wide range of topics — including history, politics, science, technology and religion — as…
MANCHESTER, England — Almost 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the British rulers’ grip on Northern Ireland is weaker than ever. Cross-border trade in Ireland has increased, pro-unification forces are gaining momentum and pro-British Unionist parties in Northern Ireland…
SULAYMANIYAH, Kurdistan Region, Iraq — The 10-day Sulaymaniyah International Book Fair ended Nov. 26, drawing tens of thousands of people eager to get their hands on books in Kurdish, English and Arabic. Busloads of students and schoolchildren walked up and…
