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• Norvège : un extrémiste anti-islam percuté en voiture après avoir brûlé un Coran
  2 juillet, par siawi3

  L’incident intervient une semaine après une fusillade mortelle en plein centre d’Oslo, considérée par les enquêteurs comme un « acte de terrorisme islamiste », qui a provoqué une vive émotion en Norvège. Plusieurs militants d’extrême-droite scandinaves anti-islam, dont le Suédo-Danois Rasmus Paludan, se sont fait une spécialité ces dernières années de brûler des Corans dans des quartiers à forte population musulmane.

• Massacre of African refugees in Spanish colonial enclave of Melilla just ahead of NATO’s Madrid Summit, a mere coincidence?
  2 July, by siawi3

  “In an unprecedented act of solidarity, Spain has welcomed more than 124,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion and yet we allow potential refugees fleeing other wars to die.. those fleeing the war in Sudan are prevented from seeking asylum in our country in violation of international law. This position can only be described as racist.”

• The Media Celebrated Julian Assange and Is Now Too Afraid To Defend Him
  3 July, by siawi3

  What I find most ominous about the Assange case is the willingness of the media to largely ignore it. When WikiLeaks first released its hoard of documents, extracts from them were published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País. None of these publications has campaigned for Assange’s freedom, though if he did anything wrong, then so did they.

• Obstacles and Prospects for a United Left in France
  4 July, by siawi3

  Although it faces significant obstacles, the French left is stronger today than it was after the 2017 presidential election

• UK: ‘We danced naked in Hyde Park - and then changed the world’: the inside story of UK Pride, 50 years on
  4 July, by siawi3

  Most LGBTQ+ people were closeted. We called it gay pride as a riposte to the idea that they should be ashamed. Half a century after LGBTQ+ people marched through London for the first UK Pride, key players recall the fun, the fear, the fallout … and the paisley hot pants

• UK: Julian Assange Appeals His Extradition To The United States
  4 July, by siawi3

  The International Federation of Journalists has launched a campaign to demand Assange’s release and at the same time express that “punishing him for exposing war crimes represents a threat to all journalists.”
  This Friday, multiple activists gathered in mobilization in front of the Home Office headquarters, after touring several points in London, to demand the revocation of the extradition order.

• UK- Somalia: The skeleton in the closet
  4 July, by siawi3

  The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.

• Norway: Thousands gather in Oslo to honour shooting victims in emotional vigil despite police fears
  4 July, by siawi3

  Norway’s LGBTQ+ community held a rally in Oslo just days after a deadly shooting in a queer bar, despite police calling for crowds to stay away.

• France : Un paradoxe français
  4 juillet, par siawi3

  « Antiracistes dans la Collaboration, antisémites dans la Résistance » par Simon Epstein. « On est alors frappé par la foule de ceux qui, ayant milité dans les années 1930 à la LICA, l’ancêtre de la Ligue contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme, s’abîmeront dans les pires engagements de la Collaboration. »

• Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnyk defends Nazi collaborator and anti-Semite Stepan Bandera
  4 July, by siawi3

  The relativization of the historical crimes of German imperialism serves the preparation of new wars and new crimes. This is now proving true.

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