With the speed for which it is world-renowned, the Italian justice system is coming to terms with the words spoken by comedian/activist Sabina Guzzanti from the stage of Piazza Navonna during a protest staged on the 8th of July. It appears that the Procura di Roma will ask the Minister for Justice Angelino Alfano (who […]
Denis Brutus, born in 1924 in what was then British Rhodesia to South African parents, shot to prominence (and jail) in the 1960s campaigning for a boycott of South Africa in the sporting world. A veteran activist, poet and Professor of African Studies and African Literature, Brutus continues to campaign vigorously against economic injustice. His […]
In the dead of night, two weeks before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, five people broke into Shannon airport in the west of Ireland. Although Shannon airport is not a military base and Ireland was and remains officially at peace with Iraq, they found a US war plane and, according to charges brought against […]
Gianfranco Fini, Italian deputy prime minister and leader of the right wing party Alleanza Nazionale, has pinpointed a new enemy in the never ending ‘war on terror’: pacifists. At the annual meeting of AN’s youth brigade, Fini urged his members to be the “”vanguard of a great battle for peace against pacifism”. He continued, “Pacifism […]
