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LGBT+ Solidarity Groups Support Nature March

Posted on 7 Sep 2024 in Politics

The left wing weekly newspaper Socialist Worker says that some three hundred and fifty organisations, ranging from moderate conservation groups to Hunt Saboteurs and radical direct action advocates, were represented on the Restore Nature Now Coalition march on June 22nd in London, a fifty thousand strong demonstration that urged government and pressured politicians to take the environment seriously, especially in the run up to a General Election. LGBTQIA+ Solidarity groups were represented and many on the left of the LGBTQIA+ movement supported the coaliti

LGBTQIA+ Hustings to Take Place for Pride

Posted on 4 Sep 2024 in Politics

The People's Republic of Stokes Croft newsletter reports that Bristol Pride head up a coalition of LGBTQIA+ friendly organisations who have invited candidates from each of the four parties - Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, and Green Parties, to answer q

Starmer in "Side Rooms" Gaffe on Talk Show

Posted on 3 Sep 2024 in Politics

LGBTQIA Newswire Pink News reports that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has speculated that transgender people under the care of the NHS could be accommodated in "side rooms" off of single sex wards. He made the remarks on LBC, a talk radio netwo

Race Riot Britain - A ShoutOut News Extra

Posted on 28 Aug 2024 in Politics

Our ShoutOut News Extra feature for August 2024 considered the then recent raft of disturbances that had taken place in several towns and cities across the UK, around the issue of asylum seekers. Fuelled by a toxic mix of testosterone, beer and boredom, as well as manipulation b

Liberal Philosopher David Boaz Passes On

Posted on 26 Aug 2024 in Politics

American author, philosopher and editor David Douglas Boaz has died at the age of seventy. He was a distinguished senior fellow and the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. He was also an openly gay man in libertarian circles. He

Aug

Civil Rights Legend James Lawson Passes On

Activists and political leaders of a wide variety of minority communities have paid tribute to the work of long time ally of human rights in the United States, Mr James Morris Lawson Junior, who ha

Aug

Mobilising Against the Far Right in the UK

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

Aug

Horror at Judicial "Daily Mail" Ruling

The Canary progressive news website has described the recent jailing of activists for peace protest as a "grotesque perversion of justice" The Canary was co-founded by les

Jul

Will Labour Carry On with Hostile Policy?

Andy Greene, a disability activist, writes in the anarchist quarterly newspaper Freedom that the endgame of the Conservative government includes brutal attacks on

Jul

Reactionary Policy Was at End of Tory Govt

The left wing weekly paper Socialist Worker says that "Teachers, parents and students must rebel against the bigoted and dangerous new guidelines to ensure every child has access t