'One Hundred Years', a poem by Steve Bloom on the centenary of the Russian Revolution

The poem can be downloaded as a pdf here or read on screen below

The Philippines: On the frontline of Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’

In its first year in operation, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ has cost more than 13,000 lives and left the country mire

Pakistan: Repression of tenants at Okara Military Farms continue, Baba Jan's final review petition underway

By Farooq Tariq September 25, 2017  
— Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières — The repression of tenants at Okara Military Farms continue for the last one and half years. On 21st September, Malik Salim Jakkar was arrested in Okara once again. He had spent most of the last two years (2015-2017) in jail and some two months back, he was released on bail.Malik Salim Jakhar along his five friends came to see me a night before his arrest in Lahore, his first meeting after his release. However, he was arrested very next day. He has been facing 95 police cases, he was released only after he tendered an unconditional apology to the authorities. Despite that, he is arrested because many hundreds of peasants met him during his brief freedom.

John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’, eighty years on

Reviewed by Barry Healy Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck

Catalonia referendum: resisting the Spanish government siege

By Dick NicholsSeptember 20, 2017 
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