Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
FIGEN YUKSEKDAG is a revolutionary leader who should be revered as an icon across the world as a leading feminist, socialist and Marxist.
Despite leading one of the most inspirational struggles in Europe and beyond, however, her name is barely known outside Turkey or the Kurdish movement.
She has long been on the radar of the Turkish state. As far back as 2009, while editor of the communist Atilim newspaper, Yuksekdag was arrested and taken into custody, with prosecutors accusing the newspaper of conducting “criminal activity.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
JOE ATTARD explains why trade unionists are rallying in solidarity against the recent arrest of political activists in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost region of Kashmir, administered by Pakistan


