Over the past week riots have spread throughout the suburbs of the Swedish capital Stockholm. There have been clashes with police, many arrests and cars have been set on fire by youth in the suburbs.

Barbara Muldoon, an anti-racism campaigner from Belfast, is facing criminal charges for taking part in a protest in 2009.

The "incident" took place three and a half years ago outside the BBC on Ormeau Avenue, when Barbara participated in a protest against the BNP appearing on BBC’s Question Time. The protest in Belfast was attended by over 200 anti-racism campaigners consisting of trade unionists, community activists, socialists and people from a Black and minority ethnic background.

Report By Nichola Harvey. A right wing demonstration of around half a million people marched in Paris on Sunday January 13 January against gay marriage.

Equal marriage was a central pledge of Socialist Party president Francois Hollande in his election campaign last year. But it has come under sustained attack from the right.
Hollande’s government has already dropped other election policies, such as giving foreign citizens the right to vote.

Key ministers have pitched to the right as the government fails to deliver on its promise to stop job cuts or tax the rich.

Lisbrook House asylum centre residents and supporters will hold a candlelight vigil tomorrow night (Friday 12 October) at 8pm outside the facility. Please show your support if you can!

Hundreds marched through Galway city today to protest the government's unjust treatment of asylum seekers who are residents of Lisbrook house.

Last week more than 270 asylum seekers staying at Lisbrook House in Galway were given one week's notice that they were to be relocated to other facilities around the country. Many of these people have been living in Galway for a number of years and have integrated into the local community, including children who have just started back to school and adults who are involved with local charity and voluntary organisations.

A protest by outraged groups has been ongoing since 9am this morning to prevent the eviction of several hundredasylum-seeking residents of Lisbrook House, Galway. Residents have only recently been notified that they will shortly be dispersed tocentres around the country. In an attempt to prevent the evictions from taking placeprotesters and residents have assembled outside the centre on the Headford Road off the Kirwan Roundabout The vast majority of the residents havebeen here for over four years.

Tonight (august 29th) at 10pm TV3 will air “Irelands Bogus Beggars: Paul Connolly Investigates”. This is a program they showed last year and it fits in well with their attempt to be the Daily Mail of Irish television.

We have seen other poorly made “journalistic documentaries” from TV3 or 3e recently on Travellers and also Muslims. Coupled with the Joe Duffyesque show Midday they always manage to fall into the cheap, trivialisation, crap of Irish television.

Racism is so embedded in our society that many people assume it has always existed. But, says Yuri Prasad, it is really a modern phenomenon that developed with capitalism

Racism, sexism and homophobia are deeply entrenched in our society. While many people reject these ideas, many others don’t.