by admin | Jul 15, 2015 | Durham Miners' Gala, unions
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the great miners’ strike. The weekend marked the 131st Durham Miners’ Gala attended by over 150,000 people. The night before the main event on Saturday 11 July, saw a meeting held at the Miners’...
by admin | Dec 10, 2014 | Europe, media freedom, Russia, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) today (8 December) have condemned the Russian authorities for forcing the independent TV channel, TV Dozhd, (TV Rain) out from its premises in Moscow. According to the EFJ...
by admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Europe, international, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting was held in Moscow last week and it was my first visit to Russia since the dramatic and turbulent days of Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s. Then one Rouble was worth one Pound Sterling. Now 100 Roubles are...
by admin | Jun 5, 2014 | Europe, media freedom, Turkey, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has criticized a new wave of violence against journalists in Turkey covering the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests. Journalists covering the Gezi protests’ anniversary in Istanbul and Ankara have again been beaten,...
by admin | May 17, 2014 | Turkey, unions
No one can tell the political fallout that will occur in the wake of the dreadful mining disaster in Soma in western Turkey. Anger at the scale of the disaster was expressed across Turkey and to the remarks made by prime minister Erdogan on Wednesday when he commented...
by admin | Dec 15, 2013 | media freedom, Turkey, unions
The last two defendants held in the Odatv trial were released at the end of the hearing in Istanbul’s 16th High Criminal Court on Thursday 12 December. (Odatv is an online news portal known for its fierce criticism of government policies.)However, both defendants,...
