Troy Davis, an innocent man whose death sentence evoked widespread solidarity from hundreds of thousands both in the United States and around the world, was put to death at the 23rd hour on 21 September as family, friends, and hundreds of supporters held vigil outside. Outside of the US, many more people waited, hoping that he would be given a last minute reprieve. He recieved none. Read more...

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Norge opplevde i går to høyreekstreme terroristangrep i det største massedrapet på norsk jord siden andre verdenskrig. Så langt er 91 mennesker bekreftet omkommet, mens flere er kritisk skadet. Gregor rapporterer fra Norge (oversatt til norsk fra den engelske teksten). Read more...

What motivated Anders Behring Breivik to kill over 90 people in Norway? His actions can only be understood in the context of rising Islamophobia and the far right, argues Dave Stockton Read more...

On Jan. 25, about 200 immigrants living in Greece occupied a faculty building at Athens University Law School and declared a hunger strike until their demands are met. Another 100 undertook a similar action in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The migrants are mostly from the Maghreb countries of North Africa. They are demanding legal residence status and regularisation of working rights for all immigrants in the country. Read more...

Michael Pröbsting shows how the Sarkozy government in France whips up racism against the Roma and migrants to deflect public anger against social cuts Read more...

Since last October, 6000 immigrant workers are on strike in the Paris region. Read more...

Amid cheers by the racist media, desperate refugees have been attacked by police and detained at a makeshift camp in Northern France, reports Mark Booth Read more...

Israel's supporters, or Zionists, are increasingly pushed onto the defensive as the horrible reality of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians hits the headlines. Breaking the ceasefire in December, Israel brutally attacked the almost defenceless population of Gaza, killing 1,330 Palestinians and injuring 5,450 in 25 days. But Nat Silverstein believes Zionists have all but run out of justifications for Israeli war crimes, and as a result they wrongly argue that opposition to Israel means that you are anti-Semitic, i.e. racist against Jews. Read more...