Thousands protest as opposition to refugee detention surges, reports James Supple in Sydney
Turkish tanks, backed by US air strikes, swept into northern Syria last weekend and attacked Kurdish YPG forces. Meanwhile in India tens of millions of workers were due to hold a nationwide general strike on Friday of this week.
The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) is campaigning to overturn the bans.
Anti-racists in France and Britain are preparing to protest against the “burkini ban” imposed in 18 localities in France.
Kurdish people in Turkey are under assault by Isis and the Turkish state in the aftermath of the failed coup, argues Charlie Kimber
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has grabbed the mayoralty of two crucial South African cities. The party openly backs big business and has its roots in some of the white parties that existed under apartheid.
A shooting of another black man and the murder of two Muslims has sparked anger, says Charlie Kimber
Egyptian revolutionary socialist activists Mahienour el-Massry and Yousef Shaaban have been freed from jail after serving 15-month sentences on trumped-up charges.
Syrian opposition forces in Aleppo were fighting to recapture the north western city as Socialist Worker went to press.
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A battle is taking place in Turkey to decide who will gain in the wake of an attempted military coup last month.
French cops kettled 1,000 people in Paris last Saturday to stop them marching for justice for a black man who died in police custody.
