Tens of thousands celebrate the 135th Durham Miners Gala – campaigners highlight proposed rendition of Julian Assange
Saturday 13 July saw a massive turn out at the 135th Big Meeting organised by the Durham Miners' Association (DMA) now in its 150th year. The organisers claim that the Gala is the largest celebration of community and working class culture in the world and is a tribute...
After Istanbul will it be business as usual?
Not according to a recent briefing by CEFTUS, the UK based Centre for Turkish Studies who reported on 11 July that dissidents within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are on the brink of forming an alternative party which could deprive the government of...
Erdoğan loses rerun of Istanbul Mayor election
Voters in Istanbul have dealt a stunning blow to the prestige of President Erdoğan and a landmark victory for democracy in the landslide win for the opposition coalition candidate from the Republican People’s party (CHP), Ekrem İmamoğlu, who for the second time was...