21st Century Fox proposed Sky takeover – Don’t let Murdoch snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
Last month the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally rejected Rupert Murdoch's £11.7 billion takeover bid for Sky on the grounds that it would give him too much control over the UK media scene and was not in the public interest. They did not, however,...
Conference calls for solidarity in action to help end repression in Turkey
As some 200 people assembled in London on Saturday, 20 January at the conference organised by Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT), Turkish war planes launched air strikes on Afrin, one of the three Kurdish cantons in Northern Syria. It marked the launch of a...
Turkish courts refuse order to release two journalists
Turkey's justice system was plunged into confusion last Thursday after two criminal courts defied an order by the country's highest court to release two jailed journalists. Last Thursday the constitutional court ruled that the pre-trial detention of Mehmet Altan and...