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Free speech highlights

  • Film and TV / Film review: Oppenheimer

    While the USA continues to trumpet itself as the home of free speech, this is only allowed so long as what is said poses no threat to imperialist domination at home and abroad.

    15 Sep 2023 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Irish republicans challenge sinister ‘debanking’ strategy

    ‘We will have your house; if you keep going, we will have your car, we will have your kids, we will have your benefits and we will put you in jail.’

    12 Aug 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Increasing state repression and the ‘non-personing’ of Nigel Farage

    The targeting of such a pro-imperialist figure is a warning to all those who might engage in acts of dissent against the establishment.

    25 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

    Human rights in Britain? What human rights?

    11 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Korea / Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase

    Workers in Britain could learn much from our Korean comrades, but they are unlikely to realise that from listening to Palin’s arrogant commentary.

    25 Jun 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Czech Republic / Medieval inquisition returns to Europe as historical truth-tellers are put on trial

    Josef Skála and two other scholars are being prosecuted in Prague, charged with ‘expressing doubts’ about who perpetrated the Katyn massacre.

    31 Jan 2023 , Marx 21
  • Civil liberties / Communists condemn cancellation of WPB anti-Nato meeting by Conway Hall

    The Conway Hall Ethical Society’s craven submission to ‘online intimidation’ gives the lie to its claim to uphold free speech.

    23 Jan 2023 ,
  • Media / Inside the world of imperialist mind control

    The upside-down world of corporate media lies: how fairy tales and disappearing facts keep workers in ignorance and fear.

    16 Oct 2022 ,
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange!

    The chilling persecution of honest journalism has only highlighted the unfreedom of bourgeois society and the lies and complicity of imperialist corporate media.

    5 Oct 2022 ,
  • Palestine / Obituary for Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

    A CNN investigation has endorsed the view that Shireen was deliberately assassinated. But the truth about Israeli crimes cannot be snuffed out so easily.

    1 Aug 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange must be freed – a plea from his wife Stella Moris

    This battle is not to only save a single journalist from gross injustice but to defend the right of all workers to access and speak the truth.

    29 Jul 2022 , Lalkar
  • Palestine / Palestinian Nakba continues with the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

    After 74 years of endless atrocities, the Israelis are further than ever from realising their fascistic goal of an ethnically ‘pure’ state.

    26 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Assange, the 21st-century inquisition

    It is not one man who is on trial, but the people’s right to access meaningful and reliable information.

    18 May 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Iniquitous new borders bill aims to make citizenship-stripping routine

    Are we entering a time where any outspoken opponent of the present system can be rendered stateless and deported?

    19 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Chris Mullin: Is another honest journalist about to be put behind bars?

    West Midlands police are still pursuing a vendetta against the veteran reporter who revealed their corruption and incompetence.

    4 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • Canada / Solidarity with the Freedom Convoy of Canada

    The arteries of the Canadian capital are clogged to the point where Canada’s whole rotten capitalist system is having a heart attack.

    23 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / The tragic fall of Kathleen Stock: another voice silenced by trans extremism

    A backlash against the domination of our university campuses by anti-material transgender ideologists is long overdue.

    16 Feb 2022 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange loses extradition appeal; British ‘justice’ exposed to the world

    On the insincere assurances of US lawyers, a British court has decreed that it would be safe for Mr Assange to be handed over to their country’s tender mercies.

    13 Jan 2022 , Lalkar
  • Education / No academic freedom to support Palestine

    Bristol academic sacked for refusing to bow to the diktat of the zionist world lobby.

    18 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Imperialism’s global conspiracy against Julian Assange

    Corporate media maintain their silence as the persecuted journalist and publisher remains behind bars, though convicted of no crime.

    10 Dec 2021 , Lalkar
  • Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

    Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

    13 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: British state locks up elderly journalist on spurious charges

    In Britain today, any journalist who becomes an inconvenience to the ruling class can expect to be ruthlessly targeted.

    9 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Iran / US escalates tension with Iran in attacks at home and abroad

    But in doing so, it is only weakening its own already shaky position in the middle east.

    22 Jul 2021 ,
  • Civil liberties / Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

    A marked increase in police violence against workers has already been in evidence even before the new policing bill has passed into law.

    24 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Police Bill: capitalism gears up for the class struggles to come

    Our rulers are in a hurry to pass new laws while the excuse of Covid lingers and before workers have woken up to the true scale of the present economic crisis.

    7 Apr 2021 , Proletarian
  • Media / Facebook employs propagandist to wage war on ‘disinformation’

    Big tech is enthusiastically embracing the drive to war with Russia and China.

    24 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Mairead Maguire nominates Assange, Manning, Snowden for Nobel peace prize

    Irish peace prize winner explains how the bravery of these three whistleblowers inspires peace-loving workers everywhere.

    24 Feb 2021 , Lalkar
  • Media / Big Tech and the end of dissent: First they came for Donald Trump

    The useful idiots of the liberal left are cheering while tech giants clamp down ever harder on freedom of speech.

    17 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange extradition trial: Shameful martyrisation continues

    Kafka’s dystopian vision has been brought to life in the heart of the British injustice system.

    22 Dec 2020 , Lalkar
  • Civil liberties / Media freedom? Show me the MSM journalist opposing the torture of Assange

    11 Sep 2020 ,
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange: The truth will set him free

    Many questions remain to be answered about the conduct of Julian’s defence.

    18 Jun 2020 ,
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray: Assange’s armoured glass box is an instrument of torture

    ‘They are attempting to make him kill himself – or create the conditions where his death might be explained away as suicide.’

    4 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 4

    The British state is lying about the validity of the US extradition treaty – and it knows it.

    2 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 3

    The sham show-trial at Woolwich reveals how brazenly our rulers will flout their own rules when it suits them to do so.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 2

    It has been demonstrably proved in court that the US knows its own charges against Assange are untrue.

    1 Mar 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Craig Murray in the public gallery: Assange hearing day 1

    This shameful show trial is being exposed by one of the few people in the court who is prepared to tell the truth to the outside world.

    29 Feb 2020 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

    Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

    22 Feb 2020 , JohnPilger.com
  • Civil liberties / UN: Britain and US guilty of torturing Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

    This illegal and brutal repression must not be allowed to succeed in its aim of terrifying workers into submission.

    7 Feb 2020 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange in court: unmistakable signs of torture

    Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

    28 Oct 2019 , Craig Murray
  • Civil liberties / Julian Assange facing extradition to the United States

    Why is the WikiLeaks founder being targeted now, and what happens next?

    23 May 2019 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

    Injustice and oppression will never be defeated unless at every turn they are resolutely resisted, whatever the cost.

    23 Apr 2019 , Lalkar
  • Media / Assange nominated for the Nobel peace prize

    Irish peace campaigner calls for the WikiLeaks’s founder to be recognised for his services against warmongering imperialism.

    1 Mar 2019 ,
  • USA / Texas primary teacher loses her job for refusing to sign a pro-Israel oath

    Meanwhile, the self-proclaimed advocates and defenders of bourgeois ‘free speech’ stand mutely by.

    8 Jan 2019 , The Intercept
  • Saudi Arabia / Khashoggi – a murder most foul

    Imperialism and its Saudi puppets in the dock.

    30 Oct 2018 , Lalkar
  • British politics / The mixed message of the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’

    Anti-zionism and opposition to the fascist activities of Israel must not be conflated with antisemitism.

    16 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Media / Bringing Julian Assange home

    John Pilger on the significance of WikiLeaks and the rage of US imperialism against its founder.

    20 Jun 2018 , Information Clearing House
  • British politics / ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism’

    Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Saudi Arabia / The march of the Saudi regime towards its inevitable doom

    The mediaeval autocracy is fuelling the very forces that will bring its decrepit rule to an end.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian

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Free speech video

  • Korea / To south Korean workers: We share the same struggle against poverty and war

    ‘Our enemies have a weakness that is eating them from the inside – the inherent contradictions of capitalism.’

    21 May 2023,
  • Health / Dr Bob Gill on Julian Assange: Media censorship is key to NHS privatisation

    Just like the various imperialist wars, the NHS has become a funnel for vast sums of public money to be passed into private hands via profits and dividends.

    8 Oct 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Civil liberties / British citizen Graham Phillips placed on UK sanctions list

    Is the government about to start seizing the assets of every citizen it doesn’t like, without even the pretence of a legal process?

    5 Aug 2022,

Free speech theory

  • Civil liberties / Red scare and yellow peril: challenging the new McCarthyism

    Many self-identifying leftists are going along with the imperialist campaign to vilify China, including by cheering on attempts to crush all debate and dissent.

    23 Feb 2021, Lalkar

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