Revolutionary Communist Group
End detention of children!
‘My three year old daughter realised we were locked in a prison. She would point at the window and say “out, out”. Even if they improved conditions inside, they still won’t get rid of this negative impact on children’. Laureine - member of Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) who was detained in Yarl’s Wood with her two small children last year.
Recent headlines and parliamentary questions have highlighted the scandal of child detention in
Venezuela: confronting reaction
23 January 2010: Government supporters demonstrate in

On Sunday 24 January, the Venezuelan government shut down Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) for persistent violation of the law of Social Responsibility in Radio and Television and of Cadena Nacional, a law pre-dating the Chavez government and requiring TV channels to broadcast important presidential speeches.
RCTV has repeatedly refused to broadcast speeches included under Cadena Nacional and has called for a violent overthrow of the government. RCTV claims to be an international channel and therefore exempt from national laws. On the contrary, 94% of its writers, actors and reporters are Venezuelan. Under the law, only channels that broadcast foreign programmes for 70% of the time or more are classed as international.
Haiti: troops out! Cancel the debt!
As the magnitude of the disaster in
Stop the deportation of Lili and Keiran to Cameroon !



Berminie Carine Lili, known to her friends as Lili, faces deportation with her two year old son Keiran Nana on Monday 25th January 2010. They were detained by six immigration police who demanded entry to their home in Hendon, Sunderland, in the early hours of Tuesday 12th January.
Lili comes from Cameroon. Since the 1980s the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have imposed on Cameroon privatisation of railways, agriculture, forests, communications, electricity and water, all sold off to multinational companies, leading to massive cuts in wages and deteriorating working conditions. In 2002 the entire country was made into an export processing zone, meaning multinational companies can ignore labour laws, are exempt from paying tax for ten years, receive cut-price electricity and other services, and can take 100% of profits back to the imperialist countries where the multinationals are based. The building of a massive oil pipeline through Cameroon by Chevron and ExxonMobil to plunder the oil of neighbouring Chad, begun in 2000, has forced whole communities off their land. Public services have been slashed, as Cameroon is forced to spend more servicing its international debts than on health and education combined. Under the control of multinationals agriculture has been diverted to exports, leading to rising food prices within the country, forcing millions into food insecurity. When people have fought back the state has imprisoned, shot and disappeared activists, with a police and army trained by France and receiving military aid from the US.*
Read more: Stop the deportation of Lili and Keiran to Cameroon !
Close Guantánamo Torture Camp!

On Monday 11 January 2010 the London Guantánamo Campaign held a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London to mark 8 years of the Guantánamo Bay torture camp. A vigil by protesters in orange jumpsuits and black hoods was followed by an hour of speeches demanding the closure of the camp and justice for all detainees.
Nicki Jameson spoke at the demonstration on behalf of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! She pointed out that the US presence at Guantánamo Bay is an illegal occupation of Cuban territory dating back to the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty, which was signed under threat of military action.
Despite Barack Obama’s pledge to close the camp by 22 January 2010, this deadline will not be met. Just under 200 prisoners are still held there. Of these around 50 have been cleared but will not be released until the US can find countries to accept them. There may be sufficient evidence to try around 25 in the US, but much of this evidence was obtained using torture.
Cubans Mobilise Against Imperialist Mercenaries
For half a century
ALBA: A fight for justice and for the survival of the species
The 8th Summit of ALBA-TCP, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Trade Treaty of the Peoples (formally the Bolivarian Alternative), was held in mid-December in Havana, Cuba. It marked five years since ALBA was set up between ALBA brings a political, economic and social alliance to defend the sovereignty, self-determination, identity and unity between Latin America and the
Read more: ALBA: A fight for justice and for the survival of the species
More Articles...
- Interview with president Rafael Correa / FRFI 212 Dec 2009 / Jan 2010
- Israel: off your trolley. Newcastle 5 December 2009
- Review of Capitalism: A Love Story, a film by Michael Moore
- Bolivian Elections: A Defeat for Imperialism
- Tyneside Community Action for Refugees stands against the BNP
- Postal workers: fighting casualisation and privatisation
- Unravelling nonsense / 02 December 2009
- BRITAIN Parasitic and decaying capitalism / FRFI 194 Dec 2006 / Jan 2007
- John MacLean Commemoration March. Glasgow, Sunday 29 November 2009
- Latin American workers sold out by opportunist British trade union movement
- FREE MURAD AKINCILAR!
- 'Che Guevara' The Economics of Revolution
- No to the BNP! - No to the racist Labour government!
- The politicians have no solutions. It's time to organise the fightback! - 18 October 2009
- EDITORIAL STATEMENT: Who speaks for the Palestinian people? / FRFI 207 Feb / Mar 2009
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Editorial & Welcome
End detention of children!
‘My three year old daughter realised we were locked in a prison. She would point at the window and say “out, out”. Even if they improved conditions inside, they still won’t get rid of this negative...
Read More...Venezuela: confronting reaction
23 January 2010: Government supporters demonstrate in Caracas. On Sunday 24 January, the Venezuelan government shut down Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) for persistent violation of the law of Social...
Read More...Haiti: troops out! Cancel the debt!
As the magnitude of the disaster in Haiti becomes apparent – perhaps 200,000 dead, the whole of the capital Port-au-Prince devastated as a consequence of the 12 January earthquake, so anti-imperialists...
Read More...Stop the deportation of Lili and Keiran to Cameroon !
Berminie Carine Lili, known to her friends as Lili, faces deportation with her two year old son Keiran Nana on Monday 25th January 2010. They were detained by six immigration police who demanded entry...
Read More...Coming Events
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Che Guevara, The Economics of Revolution - Book discussion Wednesday 10 February 2010 7:30-9:30pm @ LSE Room H103, Connaught House London School Of Economics Aldwych London WC2 (NB: if the entrance on Aldwych is shut, please enter through the Old...
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Monthly readers and supporters group Discussion of FRFI articles Contact us for details of reading material and venue. For further details, Call 020 7837 1688 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript...
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Picket of Communications House Old Street Every first Tuesday of the month! Tuesday 2 February 2010 1-2pm Fight Labour’s racist immigration laws! Picket of Communications House Old Street, EC1 (just off Old Street roundabout) Nearest...
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Picket of Marks & Spencer Every Thursday 6-8pm Picket of Marks & Spencer, Marble Arch end of Oxford Street - click here for more info
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