The Sangha Kommune (僧伽公社) – A Place of Spiritual and Physical Growth! (Founded 16.2.2010)

The Chinese Buddhist monastic community is referred to as a ‘Sangha’ (Sanskrit for ‘spiritual community’), whereby men and women form a voluntary association premised upon following a strict set of rules known as the ‘Vinaya Discipline’. Within this community, there is ‘equality’ between all members, with the leaders being those who have followed these rules for the longest times. This is because such people are thought to have more experience at adhering to the Vinaya Discipline (which includes celibacy and vegetarianism), and are therefore able to effectively advise all others through the difficult times they my face in their practice. As those with little experience have less to share, they are not considered leaders whilst more experienced practitioners live in the vicinity.

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From left: Madeleine Norman, Teuta Hoxha, Heba Muraisi, Qesser Zuhrah and Kamran Ahmed. Photograph courtesy of the Filton 24 Defence Committee

UK: Palestine Action Hunger Strikers Speak for First Time Since Being Granted Bail! (14.5.2026)

The group included four activists who had participated in a hunger strike against the proscription of Palestine Action and their treatment in prison. They told a press conference in London that they were subjected to medical mistreatment while in prison and are exploring legal avenues for restitution.

Heba Muraisi, 31, said she had to use a pillowcase as a hijab during prayer, as the prison staff at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, where she was held, took away her keffiyeh and refused to replace it with a different hijab.

Muraisi, who spent 15 months in prison, during which she was on hunger strike for 73 days, also said her body was “exposed on the street in the presence of a man” during arrest, though she did not give details. When Muraisi was sent to hospital for refeeding, after 30 days of her hunger strike, she added, she was cuffed to a male guard.

“They tried to force me to change out my clothes, meaning I would have to strip while cuffed to a man, vulnerable and exposed, waiting for this male guard to hand me my clothes,” she said. “There was a second guard who was female, but she refused to swap places with him.” 

Like other hunger strikers, Muraisi said that she was not given electrolytes — essential minerals that help muscles and nerves to work, which normally come from food — and that staff delayed granting her medical attention.

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Far-Right Restore UK "Purge" Caravans from Roads!

Great Yarmouth: Robert Lowe Applauds “No Nonsense” Approach as Restore UK Council “Purges” Caravans within 7-Days of Taking-Office! (14.5.2026)

Indeed, it is this latter policy which has led to a substantial working-class vote deserting the left and falling-in behind the more right-wing and far-right parties (the far-left is dead in the water in this respect – a victim of its own cyclic ideology). Although the Greens did well in the Norwich area in general – with Reform UK coming second – it was in Great Yrmouth that Restore UK won all nine available seats being contested (Robert Lowe was thrown-out of Reform UK for being “too far-right”). As Restore UK also won a seat on Norwich Council – as a party it won all nine-seats it was contesting. The far-right is a one-trick pony in that its policies are fuelled by short-term “hate” and only really work in knee-jerk reactions to perceived threats. As the supporters of the far-right are fickle – what seems like a problem today – might not be viewed as a problem tomorrow. This is why moving quick is important for the fascists and you move quicker than just seven-days after taking-power.

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Cuba: Presidential Statement on Fuel Shortages! (13.5.2036)

A small group of ultra-rightists who have hijacked the policy towards Cuba and lie or deliberately and cynically misinform about the Cuban reality, while demanding more suffocation and threats against our people, fear this improvement.

Our response remains the same: always willing to dialogue on equal terms, we will continue to resist and create, convinced more and more that it is up to us to overcome the enormous difficulties with our own efforts, united as a nation, and firm to face the most difficult challenges.

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The ruling will not directly lead to the reunification of Kronvold and her daughter.

Denmark: Embarrassing [Indigenous Greenlandic] “Ethnic-Cleansing” Policy Abandoned! (12.5.2026)

The Guardian Newspaper used to be the best intellectual tome for the left – (about 30-years ago) I used to read it cover to cover (when commuting on long-distance trains) – but its bourgeois, Trotskyite, centre-right political trajectory today just makes me sick. Do not buy it or encourage it. However, every so often there is an article – the content of which is far more important – than the Guardian betraying the working-class. I once met an Icelandic person (and his daughter) who looked “Asian” – and he told me that indigenous peoples in Iceland, Greenland, and elsewhere – were originally from Asia thousands of years ago – but today suffer discrimination from the White Europeans who colonised these areas. Indeed, and perhaps of the greatest irony, is the fact that the racist Trump has attempted to annex Greenland, and this ambition has inadvertently highlighted an extremely “racist” policy hiding in plane sight. Denmark, of course, collaborated with Nazi Germany with many of its men joining Hitler’s SS. The White Danish Authorities inflict a “Civilisation” test on Indigenous people in Greenland to see how “White” they behave. When they fail these racist tests – their children are removed. Absolutely disgusting!

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Area Station Manager Mian Sarwar presents Steve with a plaque Credit: ITV Meridian

England: Worker “Steve McCulloch” Ends 52-Years Commutting on Same Train-Route! (12.5.2026)

Over the years he’s collected snapshots of his journey – and he’s certainly had some memorable moments.

“In the days of slam-doors stock I was sitting at the end of the train at Slough and we moved away and somebody came running up the side and through the door and tried to climb in but stumbled. I had to grab them and pull them in,” he said.

Train travel has changed significantly since the 1970s with more electrification, the introduction of high speed trains, and digital signalling.

Mian Sarwar, the Station Manager for GWR, Slough and Maidenhead area, said: “Steve’s been travelling with us for over 50 years and to acknowledge his travelling and his loyalty with us, it was important to acknowledge him and mark this occasion very well. ”

Steve says he has plans for his retirement. He wants to travel further and has been invited to go to India, but he also hopes to explore the UK more… by train of course.

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Russia: President Putin Meets President of Laos – Thongloun Sisoulith! (11.5.2026)

The Second World War became the greatest tragedy in the human history. During the war the Soviet Union was the main battleground in Europe, standing shoulder to shoulder with China fought in the Far East.

It was the USSR that took the main blow of Hitler’s Germany and satellites united under its banners and played the key role in destruction of fascism and militarism. Soviet people, having overcome the hardships created by the treacherous invasion, having endured through all horrors of that war, engaged in fierce combat with aggressors and paid the cost of innumerable lives to gain the Great Victory.

This triumph was ultimately significant for the whole world – the defeat of Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan signified the end of claims of the disciples of the inhumane ideology of fascism to global domination, their intentions to enslave whole nations.

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