Palestine Action defendants acquitted of aggravated burglary over arms factory raidAs the verdicts were being read, the defendants held hands and embraced in the dock, as families and supporters cheered and wept. The jury did not convict defendants Head, Corner and Kamio of violent disorder and acquitted Devlin, Rogers and Rajwani of the same charge. The jury was also hung on charges of criminal damage - despite five of the defendants admitting to destroying weapons and equipment belonging to Elbit Systems during the break-in. Additionally, jurors did not return a verdict on the charge faced by Corner of grievous bodily harm with intent for striking a police officer with a sledgehammer. The six defendants have been held for around 18 months on remand- exceeding standard UK custodial time limits.
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https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-professor-lawsuit-fired-gender-lesson-76883420ae4547770af71120b3fd317dFulton county leader says he was warned he faced arrest before FBI raidThe Fulton county commission chair, Robb Pitts, said at a press conference this morning that he received a phone call last Monday – two days before the FBI served a criminal warrant to seize 2020 election documents – to warn that he, Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, former Raffensperger deputy Gabriel Sterling and others in the state were at risk of imminent arrest by federal agents. “That did not happen on Monday,” Pitts said. “It didn’t happen on Tuesday, but lo and behold on Wednesday, the FBI shows up.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/fulton-county-georgia-fbi-election-warns-office-raidNew York governor picks a new running mate, as herPost too long. Click here to view the full text. Venezuela approves counter-reform of hydrocarbons law The sequence of events triggered by the imperialist aggression against Venezuela led to the Venezuelan National Assembly’s approval, on 29 January, of a partial reform of the country’s Chávez-era hydrocarbons law. Immediately afterwards, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which is responsible for sanctions, published General License 46, partially lifting sanctions on Venezuelan oil, albeit with very strict restrictions. It is important to understand what this means. We publish here some initial observations, together with a previous comment on Marco Rubio’s appearance before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss the aggression against Venezuela.
https://marxist.com/venezuela-approves-counter-reform-of-hydrocarbons-law.htmGovernor Kathy Hochul Is Undermining Striking New York NursesOn Monday morning, with temperatures below freezing, New York City nurses began the fourth week of the largest nursing strike in the city’s history, which has seen some fifteen thousand nurses across multiple Montefiore, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian facilities walk off the job. Hundreds of nurses kicked off the week by gathering near Grand Central Terminal and marching to Governor Kathy Hochul’s nearby office, aiming pressure at a state leader who has repeatedly extended an executive order allowing hospitals to more easily hire temporary and out-of-state replacement staff (referred to in union parlance as “scabs”), blunting the leverage of the work stoppage. Nurses’ demand is specific: Hochul should not extend the executive order again, removing a measure that has made it easier for hospital systems to staff around the strike. The latest extension expires today. The striking nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), walked off the job at private hospitals across New York City on January 12. The strike does not include all NYSNA members statewide, nor nurses at public hospitals like those in the NYC Health + Hospitals system, who work under separate contracts. Bargaining between NYSNA and hospital management began months before those contracts expired at the end of 2025, stretching through the fall without an agreement. Nurses say hospital executives refused to
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47 people, including the co-chair of ESP, were arrested.
In an operation targeting the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), the Socialist Women's Assembly (SKM), the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), Etkin Haber Agency (ETHA), DİSK/Limter-İş, Polen Ecology, and BEKSAV, 96 people were detained on February 3rd. While police procedures are ongoing for 40 of those detained, 56 were brought to the Istanbul Courthouse in Çağlayan.
The prosecutor's office referred 56 people to the Magistrates' Court with a request for arrest based on the case file, without taking their statements. The court decided to arrest 47 of the 56 people, including ESP Co-Chair Murat Çepni, and to release 9 people under judicial supervision.
Speaking inside the courthouse after the decision, ESP Co-Chair Murat Çepni stated, "Those who made these decisions should know this well. You can hold ESP members hostage with these decisions, but you can never subdue the ideology and politics of ESP. This people's struggle for freedom, democracy, and socialism will continue. ESP is right in the middle of this struggle. There is no pessimism, no discouragement."
<NAMES OF THOSE ARRESTED
The names of those arrested are as follows: "Aydın Kılıçdere, Okan Danacı, Sıtkı Güngör, Erol Tunç, Gamze Toprak, Levent Tuncaloğlu, Havanur İdis, Beritan Aksu, Eylem Taş, Hasan Polat, Hivda Selen, Ruşa Sabur, Serdal Işık, Tanya Kara, Hasan Hüseyin Yeşilova, Cemre Nayir, Cemil Aksu, Ahmet Bilal Bay, Dilara Su Kalpak, Emrah Topaloğlu, Hacer Elçin, Muhammet Çelik, Şükran Yaren Tuncer Yıldırım, Berkan Balcı, Cafer Erözsoy, Songül Sağlamer, Kerem Bükre, Ali Haydar Saygılı, İleri Devrim Yurtsever, Leyla Can, Uğur Ok, Pınar Gayıp, Tayfun Kalpak, Murat Çepni, Şahin Tümüklü, Serpil Topal, Ahmet Uçar, Satiye Ok, Meral Tatar, Aynur Ergül, Latife Canan Kaplan, Hakkı Demirel, Kanber Saygılı, Ayşe Nur Demir, Berfin Polat, Elif Bayburt, Nadiye Gürbüz."
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