Tag Archives: USA
Notes from the United States
The founder of the world’s largest and most controversial mercenary army, Xe Services (previously known as Blackwater), has been accused of committing murder. Last month two whistle-blowers, one a former member of Xe’s management team, alleged Erik Prince may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were co-operating with federal authorities investigating the [...]
Notes from the United States
The number of Bush’s measures retained, enhanced or adapted by Obama is continuing to grow.
The controversial 287(g) programme is a law passed in 1996 under former president Bill Clinton. It allows local law enforcement agencies to enter into agreements with ICE, the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Under 287(g) police effectively [...]
Workers Against War
Snippets of organised workers’ opposition to the war on Iraq, roundly ignored by the mainstream media.
Italy: A one-day general strike one 2nd April, 2003 was organised entirely by the rank-and-file ‘base’ unions and anarchosyndicalist USI. Despite the fact the traditional unions did not back the action, one million workers struck and 250,000 demonstrated across the [...]
News From The Inside
Freedom for Prisoners
As many of you may know, Freedom provides free subscriptions to anyone in prison. If you have friends or family in prison, or regularly write to a prisoner, if they are interested we will be happy to send them a free sample issue or sub. If you are a prisoner yourself we can [...]
