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Issued by The Coordination of the International Socialist Tendency on 21 January 2015

Europe’s leading Nazi has been invited to spread her poison at the Oxford Union on Thursday 5 February. She must be stopped.

As a wave of Islamophobia sweeps France following the Charlie Hebdo killings, Muslims in Paris spoke to Dave Sewell about being at the heart of a racist reaction

We should blame the super-wealthy and the powerful for the problems in society, not immigrants and Muslims

What happened in Paris last week has happened in Europe before—in Madrid in March 2004 and in London in July 2005. The infernal cycle of imperialist intervention in the Muslim world and Islamist terrorism continues.

There are limits to freedom of expression in France. Sociologist Said Bouamama explains why he and rapper Saidou are up in court next week for their book and song "Fuck France: the duty to be insolent"

Repressive politicians rushed to grandstand on freedom of expression in Paris, writes Charlie Kimber

Charlie Hebdo is a strange combination—a left wing paper that’s become notorious for its racist attacks on Muslims.

A week of political turmoil has gripped France in the wake of the terrorist attacks that killed 17 people in Paris last week. Troops have been deployed on to the streets. 

Tim cartoon points to hypocrisy of leaders (Pic: Tim Sanders)

The ruling Labour-type Socialist Party lost control of the French senate to the right in an election this week. A police officer shot and killed 14 year old Cameron Tillman in the southern US state of Louisiana on Tuesday of last week. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was confirmed president of Afghanistan last week.

In 2007 and 2009 Socialist Worker reported from makeshift camps in northern France where migrants survived in squalor. Now, as calls for another crackdown grow, Dave Sewell and Guy Smallman return to meet the new victims of racist border controls