Birmingham Council attacks right to protest: We need to fight back!Birmingham City Council (BCC) has gone running to the High Court to shut down the ‘megapickets’ – mass protests that have taken place during the heroic eleven-month strike of the city’s bin workers, in order to stop scab labour from entering the depots. The most recent megapicket in January successfully shut every major depot in the city and significantly boosted the strikers’ morale and fighting resolve. Each demonstration has drawn increasing solidarity, including support from national unions such as the Fire Brigades Union and the RMT, and prominent political figures like Green Party leader Zack Polanski, as well as Your Party leaders Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn. This growing momentum reflects the mood of workers from across the country, who recognise their own experiences in the bin workers’ fight against austerity.
https://communist.red/birmingham-council-attacks-right-to-protest-we-need-to-fight-back/CP of Turkey, We will neither forget nor forgive. We will hold them accountable!Three years have passed…
According to official figures, which are indeed unreliable, we lost exactly 53,537 citizens in the February 6 (2023) earthquakes; and over 107,000 people were injured. And this happened right before our very eyes. There were so many comprehensive scientific reports prepared; the destruction, losses, and crisis we experienced had all been predicted. The only thing needed was to take immediate action with rational planning for our people’s right to healthy shelter and life. However, this system, which considers it its duty to allocate all resources to the capitalists, abandoned our people to death with all its cruelty before the earthquake, on the day of the earthquake, and after the earthquake, leaving them under the rubble. The blood and guilt of our people is on the hands of the government, local governments, and the capitalists. Those primarily responsible for the deaths of thousands of citizens have continued with their lives without even blushing, let alone being held accountable.
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