Gerrah Selby spoke to Independent Left in August 2023 The SHAC campaign stands for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. SHAC formed in 1999 to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences, which was Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory, killing 500 animals every single day. It formed after there was a Channel 4 investigation of the laboratory. And there […]
Support Disability Power March
Independent Left stands in full solidarity with DPI and disabled activists as we march to mark Disability Pride month’s campaign for basic rights, destigmatisation of disability and to celebrate being disabled and the positivity of the community. Disabled people are so often ignored pushed aside and their issues and campaigns are often argured for by […]
End Animal Farming: RTE’s Dairy’s Dirty Secret
Independent Left are proud to fully endorse the statement of the National Animal Rights Association after the showing on 10 July 2023 of Fran McNulty’s exposure of the terrible practices in Ireland’s dairy industry. It provides yet another case study of why we should end animal farming. The statement in full: After watching tonight’s RTE […]
Oppose A Deer Cull in Ireland
On 8 May 2023 a barrage of propaganda was put out by the government’s Deer Management Strategy Group in favour of a major cull of Ireland’s deer population. This highly contrived publicity campaign utilised the results of a survey that the group had carried out to generate their newsworthy content. Yet the survey was deeply […]
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity
Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a book edited by Fred Leplat and Chris Ford, published by Resistance Books and Ukraine Solidarity campaign. It contains essays by Mick Antoniw, Welsh Labour MP; John-Paul Himka, history professor; Taras Bilous, activist for Sotsialnyi Rukh / Social Movement; Yuliya Yurchenko activist for Ukraine Solidarity Campaign and Sotsialnyi […]