Communist Students Condemn Bennett’s Proposed “Ethics Code”: It Undermines Academic Freedom

At the behest of far-right Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a subcommittee of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) adopted Sunday, March 25, a wide-ranging “code of ethics to put a high barrier between politics and academia.” However, Communist students, the heads of Israel’s universities and lecturers’ unions across the country have condemned it. The code…

Antifascist and anti-Nazi protest in Vilnius, Estonia, January 2013. The full text of the sign at the right (only partially visible on the photo) reads: "Better shit on the head than Nazis in the government."

Communist Parties Denounce EU-Backed Anti-Communist Fiesta

Scores of communist and workers’ parties from around the world issued the following communique last week. The Communist and Workers’ Parties denounce the anti-communist fiesta being organized by the Estonian Presidency of the European Union (EU), in the framework of the so-called “European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes” which the EU…