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Remembering Holocaust Amid Danger from Right

Posted on 27 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs

On Monday 27th January, Holocaust Memorial Day was marked across the democratic nations of Europe, on the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the most notorious fascist extermination and forced labour camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The BBC News Channel transmitted parts of its breakfast programme from the ruins of Auschwitz. The German state, under the control of the fascist Nazi Party, conducted mass murder on a scale never previously seen in history, killing over six million people of Jewish descent, some five hundred thousand gypsy people, around twe

Calling Out the Racism of Anti-Trans Figures

Posted on 22 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs

Orion Rummler, writing at The 19th, an independent serious online newspaper, says that the attacks by motormouth Joanne Rowling on sportswoman Imane Khelif show that extremist anti-trans people are now trying to police women's bodies, as well as those of effeminate men. Indeed,

Occupation Shows the Way for Trans Activism

Posted on 14 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs

Anarchist newspaper Freedom, which has its finger on the pulse of radical activist politics in the UK reports that Fourteen trans activists from the Trans Kids Deserve Better, all aged 18 or under, have occupied the Department for Education’s (DfE) Westminster he

The Story Behind Gay Hero George and Xmas Hit

Posted on 4 Dec 2024 in Current Affairs

The street sold newspaper "The Big Issue" which has always had a strong social conscience, has started publishing its four special festive editions with bumper reportage and information for December.

Hospital Channel Shows Way as It Quits "X"

Posted on 3 Dec 2024 in Current Affairs

Radio Brockley, the respected hospital radio service for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital based in North West London, has decided to come off of the hate platform X, formerly known as Twitter. They are not the first and will certainly not be the last grass roots broadcast

Nov

Straight Supremacy Always Aligns with Terror

There is a link between terrorism and homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. Without question, every terror cell, whether they be Irish Republican, far right, ultra leftist, Palestinian or breakawa

Nov

Opposing Middle East factions in Face Off

There have been calls for more unity in the community after several groups were either denied marching permits or decided to pull out of Brighton and Hove Pride at the beginning of

Nov

After August Riots, Demonstrations Took Place

The left wing weekly newspaper Socialist Worker invited LGBTQIA+ activists to join with a broad coalition of progressives to oppose the racist attacks on mosques and other centres associat

Nov

Be Warned of the Tik Tok Anti-Gay Extremists

Martin Valdez writing at the Australian gay magazine DNA reports that a discredited idea has resurfaced through Tik Tok and aims to influence LGBTQIA+ people through social media.

Oct

Exploring Intersectionality of Movements

n the United States, the Boston branch of Muslims for Progressive Values, which has a strong tradition of supporting LGBTQIA+ people of a Muslim background says that they partici