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Ten Years Since Egypt’s Tahrir

February 7, 2021Igor Yasin

Igor Yasin is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). The Largest Movement of Workers, Youth and the Poor in Decades On January 25, 2011, around 15,000 people gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand fundamental political and social reforms. The police tried to disperse them but failed that day. And so began […]

Chechnya: Kaydyrov regime accused of detaining and torturing gay men

April 24, 2017Igor Yasin

Igor Yasin is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). Reports of gay men being detained, tortured and killed by officials under the control of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, have hit headlines around the world and provoked anger and protests from LGBT, democratic rights and socialist activists. The Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, reported that […]